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Black Howler.

by Ellen deBoer

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 20, 201160 views2 comments
This is a female or a young male of the Black Howler Monkey. Only the adult males are black. We encountered this family in a tree next to a watch tower. It looks like it didn't like us to be there as well! Pantanal, Brasil, nov 2010.

D300, Nikkor18-200VR@135mm, 1/160, F6.3, cropped to vertical. :wavey:

Comments

2 comments
Comment posted by John Tobias on February 20, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Great expression on the howler. Good exposure and comp. Thanks for sharing.
Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments
Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 21, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Hi Ellen,

Very nice - compositionally this one works very well for me. That tail works so well with the vertical framing and the positioning of the rest of the monkey (and especially the face) is spot-on (to my eye). The nearly continuous leafy background is very nice. The head and eyes of the monkey look very slightly soft on the larger version - if you haven't already done so it might be worth doing some light sharpening on just this portion of the image.

Thanks for sharing this one...

Brad
Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments