David Slater, an award-winning photographer from the UK, has had his camera hijacked by a crested black macaque at a small national park north of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus. He obviously hadn’t worked that out yet.
I wish I could have stayed longer as he probably would have taken a full family album.
It’s a lovely story and I’d love for it to be true, but if he claims the photos below were taken by the macaque I’m calling BS.
There’s just no way an ape learned photography and focused so perfectly on its eyes in a few minutes. That’s too purposeful. If the camera had autofocus on that could have helped, but autofocus doesn’t magically choose the eyes as the point of focus. And the chances of the ape doing so on purpose are 0, especially with that shallow depth of field.
