Duncan-Wallis

Another Inmate

My wife, daughter and I decided to visit the nearby Utsunomiya Zoo (Japan) as a little day trip from where we live in Tochigi. Shortly after arriving I was quit...
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My wife, daughter and I decided to visit the nearby Utsunomiya Zoo (Japan) as a little day trip from where we live in Tochigi. Shortly after arriving I was quite overcome with sadness at the conditions a large portion of the animals live in. I must stress that none of them are treated badly by the staff, quite the opposite; the staff deeply care for the well being of these creatures, it's just that there just isn't enough money to build newer and less aesthetically confining habitats.

This image is of a young monkey as opposed to the elderly female chimpanzee in 'The Prisoner' and was very much an opportune photograph. He or she was fleeing from a more dominate member of her group, as she climbed up the link fence in front of me to get away, she just stopped and stared at me with those sad eyes for no more than a few seconds before she climbed as high as she could to escape.

I was lucky to get the shot, so much so that I really did not think about any of the settings and in all honestly I barely gave composition a second thought. All I knew was that I had to get the shot and thankfully muscle memory co-operated enough to do the rest.
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