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"Oi! baboon, get off the car and give me my lenscap back!"
"Oi! baboon, get off the car and give me my lenscap back!"
KHolt


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Lenscap (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO IF for Canon
Location: Knowsley safari park, UK
Date: May 16, 2006
Aperture: F/6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Galleries: Snapshot, Animals
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2006

 We had a great day at a wildlife park, took a couple of hundred pictures that I will try to post a few, when the challenge has finished. The baboon enclosure was mad, I planted the old Praktica lenscap under the windscreen wiper and then we drove through. I did not feel it dodgy as these baboon were regularly destroying wiper blades and car trims. Anyway, 5 mins in we lost our rear wiper as a 2 foot tall baboon decided to swing on it! They had not even found the lenscap until the last couple on minutes in the enclosure. Then this beast sat on the bonnet, smeared his ar$e over the windscreen then found the cap. In a couple of seconds he had picked it up put it in his mouth then spat it out. Walked over the roof, defecated over the rear window then strolled off. The things I do for DPC!

I wish I had had more time and the baboon had been more co-operative :) Also wish that ugly reflection didn\'t run across the middle of the image. As this basically ruined the photo I thought I would portray it as more of a snapshot that anything else. Hence the tax disc not being cropped out in the bottom left.

Thanks for Simon (sjturner) for the idea!

Adjusted in RAW, Hue/Sat, Levels, coverted to 8/bit, USM, image size, added border. SFW.

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Hope people enjoy :-)

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AuthorThread
 05/26/2006 11:05:33 AM
Great job and very appropriate for the challenge.
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 05/24/2006 12:32:28 PM
so funny!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2006 11:48:43 AM
How on earth did you get him to do that... must have lost your lenscap for good :)
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 05/23/2006 07:18:04 AM
did you get it back?
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 05/22/2006 12:55:54 AM
Amazing image. Well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 11:24:50 PM
Very good shot. A little window reflection is distracting, but I'd stay in the car for this too.
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 05/21/2006 07:27:48 PM
This is SO funny! Extra point for the sacrifice! Great capture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 02:17:55 AM
Brilliant! I wonder if you ever did get the lenscap back? Great idea, good composition and colour.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/20/2006 09:51:21 PM
Well done! I hope you got it back and avoided his teeth.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/20/2006 04:35:56 PM
Great shot. Good luck getting it back.
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 05/18/2006 11:37:41 PM
Haha!
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 05/18/2006 11:19:52 PM
Wow!!!!!! Now THIS is awesome!!! Can't wait to read the story behind this photo. I hope I don't find N/A in your subject line. There's got to be an explanation! :) Fantastic photo! 10
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 05/18/2006 11:04:45 PM
Now how did you do that...
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 05/18/2006 09:08:41 PM
Hilarious!
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 05/18/2006 07:19:45 PM
Okay, giving up your lens cap to a baboon is going above and beyond the call of duty. I hope he (she?) didn't swallow it!
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 05/18/2006 06:25:13 PM
Funny picture.
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 05/18/2006 02:48:24 AM
uh oh! wow, great picture, nice focus and great capture! good composition and background too... only thing I wish the mirror weren't there, though nice save with the title, was going to say 9, but what the blank, how 'bout 10?
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 05/18/2006 01:11:22 AM
Lol ΓΆ€” very nice. Did you get back the lens cap?
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 05/17/2006 09:03:34 PM
LOL!
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 05/17/2006 02:01:16 PM
hahahaha
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 05/17/2006 09:08:08 AM
Very cute, did you ever get your lenscap?
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 05/17/2006 06:19:49 AM
An amazing idea, how did you come up with it:-)
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 05/17/2006 05:13:09 AM
Good shot, up close and personal!
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 05/17/2006 03:05:42 AM
roflmao, did you ever get your lenscap back?
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