photo set up images - Joel Sartore

A zookeeper holds a blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

A zookeeper prepares a blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) for a photo shoot at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

A light box set up in the back room of a zoo.

A man prepares a tent for a photo shoot.

A red spitting cobra (Naja pallida) is photographed at the Dallas Zoo.

A vulnerable Owston’s palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) at the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Center in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker