Gazing monkeys image wins top wildlife photo award

[Scurrilous]

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"This image of apparent serenity versus commotion is the overall winner of the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, announced at a gala dinner at London's Natural History Museum.

The picture was taken by Marsel van Oosten in China's Qinling Mountains.

The Dutchman had to follow the troop for many days to understand the animals' dynamics and predict their behaviour. His goal was to show in one shot the beautiful hair on a male snub-nosed monkey's back, and the creature's blue face.

Marsel's perseverance eventually paid off with this exquisite composition that includes a smaller female behind."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45870218

[flotsam]

1. K&R

Because. That said the photo is beautiful and I will in no way tie the male monkeys back hair to any reprehensible person...

[lunasun]

2. Amazing shot

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. This is perfection right here.

[lunatica]

4. It looks so good that it looks fake

Like CGI in the movies.

[Woodycall]

5. Beautiful but,

I just just wonder what the ex Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner would do with that moment? Sorry. Still really, really pissed about that sick fuck.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I feel the same way - on both counts

[msongs]

7. looks doctored to me nt

[lunasun]

9. Flash used

"As we were going through the entries, we just kept coming back to this one," she recalls. "It's almost like a stage set. I think what makes it are the colours and the lighting.
"These monkeys normally feed in the trees, but somehow Marsel's managed to catch them on the ground, and he's carefully thrown a very gentle flash on to the scene to illuminate that amazing fur."
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year.html

[kcr]

10. A lot of professional pictures are starting to look like that

It's almost an airbrushed looking flat effect. It makes it too perfect looking and unreal and I don't like it.

[Kurt V.]

8. Beautiful