This user would like to thank the US Government for everything they do. Which is PD.
Whoever it was who insisted on putting that in the Printing Act of 1895 deserves the thanks of the world. More governments should follow their example!
I'm not much of a photographer, and don't even think I have the best taste in photography, but I've noticed a lot of little-recognised photographers who contribute photos of animals, many from places we don't get many photos from, like Dûrzan cîrano, from the Kurdish part of Turkey, and Yuriy Danilevsky, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A few of these images clearly deserve quality image or valued image status, so I've nominated them:
this is not like the others, an illustration I found and asked to have cleaned up