Swimming Monkey by Will Burrard-Lucas

Tuesday, 22nd April 2008

13 Comments

1. Billy B Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 5:16 am

   The Japanese Monkey Emperor retires to the Royal Hot Springs bathing facilities. A highly unusual catch indeed….

2. Anurag Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 am

   Such human looking.
   Though I know how difficult it is to get the perfect camera setting insuch split second moments, I guess you needed a higher ISO to achieve a faster shutter and slightly more DOF. Just a thought.
   Neverthless you have managed excellently well to capture this moment.

3. Eli Shams Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am

   They know what is good, he he… Stunning image.

4. Buffy Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 am

   wow. that is like, really AWESOME! nice shot

5. Andreea Teodorescu Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am

   Very impressive. The animal’s expression is so human…

6. a. Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   He looks so human… Great work!

7. Tom Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm

   Expression looks human. That was one of my first impressions. Interesting.

8. Renee Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   Incredible shot! congrats

9. Kirk Jordan Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm

   Anurag, please pardon my disagreement, but I think the slight suggestion of motion, in combination with the tack sharp eye-nose focus and shallow depth of field is perfect.

   And what a powerful suggestion of our shared creature-hood.

10. Andrew Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    LOL, thats nice . Hope she’s not gonna drown.

11. Anurag Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 am

    Precisely Kirk. But if you see carefully there is a hint of motion blur in the eyes/nose and the actual point of focus is in front of the face, i.e. on the water droplets. That is why I would have gone for maybe 2/3 stop narrower aperture and 1/3 faster shutter. Neverthless all this is just like splitting hair. In the end its a great image.

12. Pauline Jones Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Lovely shot; i didn’t even know macaques could swim.

13. Malta Photography Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    nice shot full of action.

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