Young chimpanzee

David, I love that the mother is looking away, but still recognizable. Great connection with the youngster. If it were mine, I would try a slight crop from the right.

Cool shot.

Hi David,

Really like the light and absolutely love how the youngster's feet are wrapped around ma's hand. It's a bit of a shame that the mother's head is clipped...perhaps a vertical capture might have been a slightly better choice on this one? If the image were mine (I wish!) I'd probably experiment with cropping MORE of the female off now and make this image more about the youngster (likely via a tighter vertical crop of the younger one) - I think having that great hand there will convey enough about the interaction of the two without having too many other "recognizable parts" of the mother in the frame. All this assumes you have sufficient pixels to make such a large crop...

Cheers...thanks for showing us this wonderful image!

Brad

Fantastic image David, this really made me smile My thoughts are the same as Brad's here, a very tight framing around the young would create a very abstract image that will make people think for a moment about what is going on here and they will smile too once they 'see' it.

Super Cute!!! Excellent photo David!

Ken Archer

I like the shot and the baby chimp is very cute. I am pretty distracted by that bright foreground though. I would have cropped the bright FG completely out of the shot and also cropped some on both the left and the right to zero in on the baby chimp.

Eyes, ears, hand (mom) / feet (youngster), and the warm tones in this picture are great. Thanks for sharing.