Telegraph: Monkey steals camera to snap himself

[lynnb]

Certainly a good effort - could win a few awards for the monkey!

A macaque monkey in Indonesia took a camera from a wildlife photographer before snapping himself in a variety of poses:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...859/Monkey-steals-camera-to-snap-himself.html

 

[alistair.o]

That's a much better self portrait than I can produce!

Thanks for the link.

 

[bigeye]

Does he use photoshop PP?

 

[Keith]

Hmmm ... a valid reason for spanking the monkey if you ask me!

 

[Nikon Bob]

Thank you, that just made my day.

Bob

 

[Ezzie]

Nice effort on the part of the monkey.

 

[John Lawrence]

Looks like he was just aping the photographer, and I bet he chimped too!

John

 

[Moriturii]

Photography, so easy, even a monkey can do it ;-p

 

[Mr_Flibble]

It just proves monkeys are a better photographers then we are 😉

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

reminds me of a group of monkeys randomly belting out Shakespeare on the typewriter....here's a twist... a monkey with a camera will take great pictures eventually.

So all you dslr photographers out there: you're not that good, you're just a lucky monkey 🙂

 

[peterm1]

Just goes to prove what use Leica users have been saying for years....."Trouble with these damn new fangled cameras is that any monkey can pick one up and think he is a photographer."

 

[lynnb]

I'm thinking the monkey could sue for breach of copyright if the photos were published without his permission!

 

[MRohlfing]

He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus. He obviously hadn't worked that out yet

Was it a rangefinder camera? 😀

 

[Mark Wood]

Sadly, even the Daily Telegraph appears to be a little prone to exaggeration:

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.u...er_plays_down_monkey_reports_news_308470.html

I wonder what the Daily Mail would have made of the story...?

 

[dexdog]

I am now waiting for the new thread on 'monkey street photography'

 

[Kevin]

The smiling headshot is fantastic.

 

[alistair.o]

I wonder what the Daily Mail would have made of the story...?

Daily Mail Headline:- "Discovered: forged passport photo factory in far East"

 

[Sparrow]

Daily Mail Headline:- "Discovered: forged passport photo factory in far East"

.. or; Immigrant Threat to British Photographers Jobs

 

[rpsawin]

Wonder if we will see this guy in Nikon ads along with that other monkey....Aston something.

Bob

 

[StaaleS]

However they came about, the pics certainly remind me of a gazillion "here is me in front of X" photos taken with a digicam held at arm's length facing the photog 🙂