Macaca Nigra

A seemingly well-groomed Celebes Crested Macaque showing its better side to the photographer in the local zoo. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

Alone In The Garden

A lone macaque foraging in the botanic garden. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

It was moving atop a banyan tree, feeding as it went along. Caught this at the moment its eyes sparkled. There were originally specular lights here and there behind the macaque. In post, these were cloned over with surrounding foliage before the background was then softened by applying a little Gaussian blur.

Giving Thanks

 

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A wild macaque helping itself to the fruits in the zebras pen in the Singapore Zoo. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Besides trying to catch the macaque in many of its expressions, I was also trying to include one key aspect: catchlights in its eyes.