Chimpanzee

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Mahale National Park, Tanzania, 27th December 2007

EOS 1D MkIIn

300mm F4 IS hand-held knelling down out of breath.

F4, ISO 800 (the highest I dare with this camera), 1/100

It's very dark and very light in the jungle!

Make what you will from the hand gesture, I thought it was aimed at the "professional" photographer who kept getting in front of us, luckily we got to this one first until he shoved us out of the way.

[Harshad Barve]

Teriffic shot , lovely pose and compo here
TFS

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
This is nice. Its gesture is interesting. I won't be keen to get pushed away by this fellow. :D

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

He reminds of The Thinker. Wonderful pose, composition and detail Ken. Well done.

[Betsie Storm]

Beautifully exposed in difficult circumstances, and a nice pose. Thanks for sharing him and the story, Ken.

[Morkel Erasmus]

wonderful sighting and the old blighter posed nicely for you! I've read a lot about the difficulties of exposing correctly in dense forests and hope to get the opportunity someday...

[DanWalters]

Like the pose of the chimpanzee and the way he is looking out of the frame. Nice light and color as well.

[Marc Mol]

Love the hand gesture Ken, top stuff!! Well handled exposure on the chimp too.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely pose Ken, and love the pensive look. Overall well exposed, and a species I would love to see in the wild.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for all of your comments, the exposure only looks good thanks to techniques I learned from this forum. The highlights on the leaves were particularly difficult.

[Steve Canuel]

Nice composition and well exposed in those conditions.

[Ajit K Huilgol]

Beautiful portrait, Ken!

[Steve Kaluski]

Ken, your timing is spot on!