honorable mention
Preeti and Prashant Chacko united arab emirates
Photo © Preeti and Prashant Chacko
title
INNOCENCE
One day at Pench Tiger Reserve, we came across a langur mother with what appeared to be a very young baby. The advantage of photographing other species in tiger obsessed India is that you often get sightings to yourself for as long as the animal is willing to oblige you. This gives the photographers the opportunity to both position themselves exactly where they would like and to wait patiently for the right moment.
We saw this baby peering out at us from the safety of its mother's arms with its big eyes seemingly expressing so many different emotions: mischief, curiosity, wonder, innocence. We zoomed in to capture this expression and to show it ensconced in the safety of its mother’s embrace. The lighting was from an oblique angle behind the langurs, dappled by the dense forest behind them. The light not only highlighted the fur but made it look it look like a really comforting security blanket for the baby. While crafting this image, our challenge was to show enough in the frame to tell the full story and yet not have so much that the frame became messy and distracting. We chose this composition so as to leave out the distracting aspects of the trees behind them or the features of the mother.
This image is printed on smooth archival paper with no optical brighteners so as to ensure that the print paper colour you receive will last for generations, without turning yellow in time.
We have travelled extensively in Africa, and to a limited degree in India, for our photography.
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entry description
We love langurs, especially their babies. We find them to be incredibly photogenic and the fact that they are primates means that their actions and expressions can appear very human like.One day at Pench Tiger Reserve, we came across a langur mother with what appeared to be a very young baby. The advantage of photographing other species in tiger obsessed India is that you often get sightings to yourself for as long as the animal is willing to oblige you. This gives the photographers the opportunity to both position themselves exactly where they would like and to wait patiently for the right moment.
We saw this baby peering out at us from the safety of its mother's arms with its big eyes seemingly expressing so many different emotions: mischief, curiosity, wonder, innocence. We zoomed in to capture this expression and to show it ensconced in the safety of its mother’s embrace. The lighting was from an oblique angle behind the langurs, dappled by the dense forest behind them. The light not only highlighted the fur but made it look it look like a really comforting security blanket for the baby. While crafting this image, our challenge was to show enough in the frame to tell the full story and yet not have so much that the frame became messy and distracting. We chose this composition so as to leave out the distracting aspects of the trees behind them or the features of the mother.
This image is printed on smooth archival paper with no optical brighteners so as to ensure that the print paper colour you receive will last for generations, without turning yellow in time.
about the photographer
We are Preeti and Prashant Chacko, an amateur photographer couple with a passion for the wild, based in Dubai. Photographing the earth's wild spaces fills us with joy, awe and endless positive emotion. We hope to kindle that spirit in others through our photos.We have travelled extensively in Africa, and to a limited degree in India, for our photography.
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