Japanese Macaques

I was looking through some old files and came across these Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys.

I photographed at the Cairngorm Wildlife Reserve in 2014. I mistakenly shot JPEG rather than RAW, which doesn’t bring the best out of the camera and lens. I shot with a Nikon D7000 and 70-300mm f4,.5 – f5.6 Nikon lens at 95mm. That’s equivalent to a 142mm lens on full frame. The EXIF data says I shot at f5.6 at 1/500th second and ISO 400.

The reason I am putting them up here is that I find time and time again that cameras and lenses that I grew dissatisfied with turn out later have been perfectly OK.

Memo to self to stop searching for bigger and better?

I wonder at what these Japanese macaques were looking so intently?

Each macaque, it seems, has a different expression and a different attitude to whatever it is they are looking at.

They’re nice, aren’t they.