Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
Hope. Love. Home. Sanctuary for primates.
Sometimes just looking at photos of the chimpanzees takes my breath away.
Even though I’ve known them for over a decade, I love being able to study their features and the different expressions that the camera captures in a given moment.
Black and white photos can be all the more breathtaking.
Burrito:
Missy:
Foxie:
Jamie is intense, capable, determined, moody, stubborn, and on occasion sweet and silly.
This one is more of an outtake:
Continuing with the black and white/grey theme from Saturday, and thanks to comments on that blog post, I decided to truly embrace this way of seeing and capturing images by setting the camera to monochrome and finding out what might happen.
I had to climb a ladder in the greenhouse to get these photos, but Burrito willingly served as the most handsome subject anyone could hope to have.
I might just be in love with black and white.
Burrito wears it well.
I really like black and white photos. I think it lends a more intimate feeling to portraits – you can really concentrate on the person’s facial features and wonder about their personalities and their pasts without the distraction of color.
We’ve been getting some great close-up photos of the chimpanzees lately plus I found a few that we hadn’t posted before, so I thought I would render some in black and white and sepia.
What do you think?
This is a close up of Annie’s eyes:
Annie:
Foxie:
Jamie (I just love this photo that Katelyn took – it’s great in color and sepia):
Jody:
Burrito:
Missy:
Last, but never least, Negra:
