Male Orangutan - Borneo

[Nate Chappell]

Hi everyone, here's a male Orangutan from our trip to Borneo a couple of years ago. This was taken at Semenggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Borneo. These orangutans live freely in the forest there, they were once illegally owned as pets or by zoos and have been released there. Feeding stations are put out to help their transition back to the wild. This big male, named Richie was feeding on one of those stations. About 95% of FF, cloned out a small tree branch, ulc.

20D 500F4 1.4X 1/250 F5.6 iso 400, evaluative metering at 0.

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely head portrait with a great facial expression. Thanks for the explanation of their status, Glad they are able to live somehow free live.

[Nate Chappell]

Thanks Peter and Fabs, Semenggoh is in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) near Kuching.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nate,
I like your framing and composition. Unfortunately, it is tough to get an Orangutan in Wild. I had a one week time and was told the only way to see one Orangutan is to go to this rehabilitation centre as sighting in wild is very difficult. I hope next year, I can find a wild one.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Steve Canuel]

What a face! I like the detail you've captured and the colors look good.

[Robert Amoruso]

I like the framing with the arm along the bottom and the right. Great expression with the face. Good detail in the darker fur as well.

[John Blumenkamp]

Beautiful capture Nate... I had the same thought as Robert about the framing with the arms filling the bottom and right side of the image - very nice. Awesome detail, and the expression is fantastic. Congrats on a great image.

[D. Robert Franz]

A fine well composed image of a great speciman.. Makes me want to get back there...