A small collection of photos of primates. Sometimes already shared in another edit. Others now for the first time. Have fun!
Year: 2023
A different perspective
If you take a different perspective, you see something new every time. That’s true in photography and in life. It’s been 18 months since I took photos in my photography cube. This week I made a lot of flower photos. My orchids, a bouquet I bought for myself and a bouquet I bought for my READ MORE
Colorful feathers
Time for color! After a lot of rain and gray clouds, we can use that. Today was supposed to be a warm beautiful day. It’s dry and warm, but that’s about it. If you see this blog and you have visited my website before, you will see that it has a new layout. Simple, sleek, READ MORE
Negative space
Negative space? What’d that? It doesn’t sound very nice! It’s not too bad. It’s a composition option in photography. All photos I share have negative space. Part of the image is “blank”. This way you can draw more attention to the subject. There are even more composition rules that apply to these photos. The rule READ MORE
By-catch
Whether I visit a zoo is mainly determined by the primates and/or big cats I can see there. Those are my favourite subjects. But I do photograph every animal. And then I actually find almost everything fun and interesting. Smaller animals can always be seen in every zoo. They often have meerkats, prairie dogs and READ MORE
Apenheul Photography: Capturing Enchanting Ape Portraits
The title and text below are taken directly from chat.openai. Another experiment with AI, followed by 6 portraits that I made in the Apenheul on Wednesday. The text is not quite my style, but quite educational 😉 The Apenheul is a unique animal park where you can experience apes up close. Capturing ape portraits READ MORE
Big cats
The term “big cat” is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar. All cats descend from the Felidae family, sharing similar musculature, cardiovascular systems, skeletal frames, and behaviour. Both the READ MORE
This was Bauwi
Saturday 13 May another beautiful silverback died. Bauwi was the leader of the group at Burger’s Zoo. Over the years I took a lot of pictures of him. Reason enough for an ode to Bauwi. The first and last photo in this blog have been heavily edited. The last one is a composite. The background READ MORE
Monochrome expressions
Social media is full of pictures of “smiling” dogs, cats, monkeys and many other animals. The shape of the beak then resembles the shape of the human smile. Only, those animals don’t laugh. Their facial features work differently. Even monkeys, closest to humans (we are all primates), don’t have the same facial expressions. The chimpanzees, READ MORE
Born with huge feet.
You see a lot of animals in zoos. Not only captive animals, but also wild animals. They themselves choose a life in the zoo. It is a safe place and they often get a piece of the pie when the animals are fed or when visitors drop food. In Naturzoo Rheine I came across this READ MORE