Dinosaur Portrait Photography

I have a bunch of leftover pictures I’m not sure where to post so I’ll share them here – these are when I got a little too close for comfort but they turned out so great I wanted to feature them. Can you tell which dinosaur they belong to?

So… which dinosaurs were those?

Alright, answer key. No peeking before you’ve had a proper guess. In the order they show up in the gallery above:

Pteranodon — long crest, no teeth, built to ride thermals like a glider. Not technically a dinosaur, but the classic flying reptile everyone pictures.
Carnotaurus — the little bull-horned meat-eater with tiny arms that make a T. rex look ripped.
Mosasaurus — the sea monster from the end of the Cretaceous. Also not a dinosaur, but the ocean’s top predator for a few million very bad millennia.
Pterosaur — another flyer. Pterosaurs are a whole group; this one’s got that classic leathery-winged look.
Therizinosaurus — the one with comically huge scythe-claws. Looks terrifying. Was mostly just eating leaves.
Iguanodon — big herbivore with thumb spikes. First dinosaur ever named from a tooth, which is a whole story.
Tyrannosaurus rex — of course. The reason we have a dinosaur site at all, honestly.
Ankylosaurus — the armored tank with a bone club for a tail. If dinosaurs had a defensive line, he was it.
Dilophosaurus — the twin-crested predator Jurassic Park shrunk and gave a frill and venom spit. None of that is true. It was big, fast, and scary enough on its own.
Dilophosaurus — yes, another one. Different angle. Those double crests are very photogenic.
Dilophosaurus — I got a little carried away on the Dilo shoot.
Plesiosaurus — long-necked marine reptile. If the Loch Ness Monster has a cousin, this is the family portrait.

Why make a gallery like this?

Honestly? Because most dinosaur pictures online are either stiff museum diagrams or Jurassic Park screengrabs. I wanted portraits. Just the animal, looking like itself, in a frame you could hang on a classroom wall. No labels, no action poses, no screaming scientist in the corner. Just the dinosaur.

If you want more of these, every name in the list above clicks through to a full field guide with more pictures, size comparisons, and the one weird fact most kids’ books leave out. The T. rex guide is where most people start. The Therizinosaurus page is where most people get weird. Both are good.

Spot a dinosaur I missed? I’m always taking requests. Leave a comment with who you want portrayed next and I’ll add them to the shoot list.