Troop leader.

[Marc Mol]

Male Baboon troop leader.
Kwhai region- Botswana Sept '09.

D3 500VR 1/180s ISO200@f/8.

C & C most welcome

Cheers
Marc

http://africaddict.smugmug.com/Nature/Botswana-Sept-2009/d313918a/696239264_Ck9qM-XL.jpg

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Marc, Im very wary of these guys, have you seen the size of their incisors. This looks pretty large, and also fairly old too. Good eye contact, and just love their orange eyes.

[Hendri Venter]

I like the close-up view of this old chap. Very good detail in this and good eye contact as mentioned.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Superb image Marc with excellent detail and the stare he is giving you is over the top. Killer BG too !!!!

[David Fletcher]

Think this is superb Marc. great comp. Love the details and the stare you are getting. Makes one quite wary. Outstanding shot.

[Robert Amoruso]

Marc,

Agree with the others comments. I find the blue color cast unnatural (at least IMO) so reposted it with a gray point correction (levels, gray eyedropper, picking various gray points on the coat until I found something I liked) and then a hue/saturation correction (cyan channel desaturated 100%).

The gray point correction did warm up the image however. Anyway, just something to consider.

[Harshad Barve]

amazing eye contact and details , never seen this guy but repost looks better presentation wise
TFS

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Marc: What an intense close-up of a dangerous animal. Detail is beautiful and eyes are piercing. Just a great shot. Repost even a bit more intense, if that's possible.

[Kiran Khanzode]

I always favor warm colors, Robert's repost makes this perfect. Too sharp !!


DB, why 'dangerous' ? Reminds me of someone who called the painted dogs "dangerous" in the recent past :-)

[Steve Canuel]

Nice sharp portrait. Love the "T" of the nostrils. Prefer the warmer repost but maybe just a little less strong.

[Morkel Erasmus]

sharp portrait of a dangerous bloke.

Kiran - baboon fangs are larger than lion and leopard fangs and many leopards who have posed a threat to a baboon troop have been killed by these alpha males. Stay well away...

[peter delaney]

love the facial expression... prefer the warm colours of Roberts repost...still in two minds about the crop you have chosen .... but either way still a powerful facial portrait

peter

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I love the expression. The nose looked a bit more blue in the original post. The eyes and open mouth is very expressive. A vertical would have been great.

It is not always the length of the fangs that matters. The sabre tooth had larger. However, they used to splinter on hitting bones.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Morkel Erasmus]

Sabya - point taken.

I was also hinting at the fact that baboons have killed many predators hoping to make them its prey...males are quite aggressive and obviously more agile than an animal which is bound to all fours :)

[Marc Mol]

Resubmitted as a vertical and (my) warmed up WB.

http://africaddict.smugmug.com/Nature/Botswana-Sept-2009/d313918aap/711944280_5rXwb-XL.jpg

[Morkel Erasmus]

repost rocks Marc!!!

[Danny J Brown]

I always favor warm colors, Robert's repost makes this perfect. Too sharp !!


DB, why 'dangerous' ? Reminds me of someone who called the painted dogs "dangerous" in the recent past :-)

I think I'd rather tangle with a painted dog than with one of these things. Wouldn't want to get my face ripped off:).