Travel Snapshot – Portrait Of A Long-Tailed Macaque

This is a short post. It’s about a snapshot of a monkey eating leaves on Bukit Melawati or nicknamed Monkey Hill in Kuala Selangor. I love to shoot portraits of my children, my pets, people and portraits of animals. However, love doesn’t mean good. I love golf doesn’t mean I’m good in it. Same with photography. I love to shoot portraits but I’m not good in it. The most difficult part of a portrait shot is the ability to capture the emotion and expression in that tenth or thousandth of a second moment while they are still moving (alive?). Technically, for  a moving object like an animal or child (off course not those models who are paid to pose still), it is even more difficult to capture them sharp focusing onto their eyes. And you need a really fast lense like Nikkor 35mm f1.8 fixed lense or, under really good natural sunlights or artificial softboxes. Normally, out of 10 portraits that I shot, only 1 or 2 are satisfactorily, to me. So, I’m still learning and trying…

This is one of those few shots that I managed to capture and focus onto the eyes of a long tailed monkey (or silverleafed monkey?) during my recent short trip to Kuala Selangor, the old royal capital of Selangor state of Malaysia. More stories on the trip to Kuala Selangor is coming up next. Subscribe RSS Feeds for free upcoming stories of Travel Feeder. – Travel Feeder.

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.