Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
Swimming Monkey
by Will Burrard-Lucas
A Japanese Macaque monkey swimming in a geothermal hot springs in the mountains of Japan. Throughout the day they can be seen playing, grooming and relaxing in the steaming waters!
Equipment: Canon EOS 1D Mk II
Will Burrard-Lucas
I am a keen travel photographer... I particularly enjoy wildlife photography.
Website: www.willbl.com
Swimming Monkey by Will Burrard-Lucas was photo of the day on Tuesday, 22nd April 2008. It is tagged Monkeys, Water. You can leave a comment below.
18 Comments
Billy B
The Japanese Monkey Emperor retires to the Royal Hot Springs bathing facilities. A highly unusual catch indeed….
Anurag
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.
Eli Shams
They know what is good, he he… Stunning image.
Buffy
wow. that is like, really AWESOME! nice shot
Andreea Teodorescu
Very impressive. The animal’s expression is so human…
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He looks so human… Great work!
Tom
Expression looks human. That was one of my first impressions. Interesting.
Renee
Incredible shot! congrats
Kirk Jordan
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.
Andrew
LOL, thats nice
. Hope she’s not gonna drown.
Anurag
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.
Pauline Jones
Lovely shot; i didn’t even know macaques could swim.
Malta Photography
nice shot full of action.
Su
Wonderful shot, hes so intense looking.
Sue Gagnon
The animal looks so HUMAN in this perspective, simply WOW for me!!
Su
Another wonderful shot from Will, congrats.
renee
great shot will!
Rajib Singha
Fabulous shot!