This is an alpha male orangutan in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. My photography tour group and I were walking on a short trail through the jungle to a feeding platform where rangers leave bananas out for the wild orangs. When the food is put out, you can see trees in the distance swaying back and forth as the animals travel from tree to tree to enjoy the free meal. It's amazing how fast they can traverse above the thick vegetation. We spotted this huge male a few hundred feet from the platform, and I thought this pose was pretty amazing. I’d never seen pictures of an orangutan doing this before. I had a long lens on the camera, and I quickly switched to a 24-105mm. The primate was about 10 feet off the trail, and I was lucky that he posed like this for several long minutes. The bright sky affected the meter reading, so I had use +1 exposure compensation to prevent the orang from becoming a silhouette. My settings were 1/250, f/5.6, and 640 ISO.
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