Adventure photographer Chris Burkard’s latest film, ‘Under an Arctic Sky’ is now available on Netflix. To celebrate the film’s release, we sat down with Burkard for an exclusive interview to discuss the hardships and dangers that went into making the film, if he felt that this was his most epic adventure yet, and how he recharges his creative batteries after an extended and exhausting time away from home.This interview originally appeared in the Fall issue of Resource Magazine. Purchase a copy or a subscription today. By Michael Bonocore Read Burkard’s exclusive article for Resource Travel, “Adventure is My Inspiration” As our DHC-8 twin-engine noisily descends from a short flight across the Vestfjorden, the scene outside the window begins to resemble what I had always envisioned to be ‘the Arctic.’ Snow covered farms and cottages become larger as we break through the thick clouds. Our small plane begins to toss like a rag doll, leading even experienced fliers like us to grip our armrests as our stomachs churn. After what felt like an hour, the prop plane touches down and almost instantly the door is open and we are on the tiny airport’s tarmac. This harrowing endeavor marked the moment I first realized I had just entered the infamous Arctic with famed adventure photographer Chris Burkard. At the time, I did not know what these frigid locations meant to Burkard or how the cold, arctic environments had shaped his career and his personality. And most of all, little did I know what he had in store for us all just three short years later. Arctic SwellWhile Chris Burkard’s work today can be best described as ‘adventure’, there was a period in the California native’s younger years when his primary focus was mainly on surfing and the loose, frantic culture that surrounds the sport. His love of the outdoors and willingness to do anything to get a great photo began to resonate with the people who flocked to his Instagram for their daily fix of wanderlust. Today, that Instagram is approaching three million followers who hang on to his every word, as Burkard is a master at finding the right inspirational caption for his photos. Some of the most popular images on his Instagram come from the Arctic, the same place I found myself with Burkard back in 2014. I was there to help film a short documentary for SmugMug called ‘Arctic Swell,’ which followed Burkard as he documented three pro surfers battling the extremes at the 68th parallel. This is where I saw Burkard at his finest: “Having cold fingers, brittle skin and chapped lips. Really putting yourself out there in the elements. That’s when it feels like you are paying the price, but the greatest rewards come from it.” And he was right. Burkard’s shots from this expedition, as well as his other cold-weather surf adventures, are legendary, and I got to experience his passion firsthand. We were indeed frozen and our skin brittle, but it was one of the most exciting and educational weeks of my life. Under An Arctic SkyWhen we heard Burkard was in Iceland making a film with the production studio Sweatpants Media, we knew he must have something incredible up his sleeve. Sure enough, he did. ‘Under an Arctic Sky’ follows Burkard and surfers Justin Quintal, Timmy Reyes and Sam Hammer along with local surfers and guides Heidar Logi, Elli Thor Magnusson and Ingo Olsen as they travel through Iceland in search of rideable waves in the remote Westfjords. Their plan is to meet up with a sailboat captain who seems to be the only one willing to take the risk that the expedition involves. Almost immediately after landing in this nation of 334,000, the team finds themselves battling what would become the country’s worst winter storm in over 20 years. The filmmakers perfectly capture the terrifying scenes unfolding in front of them, making the audience’s heart race as the surfer’s SUVs battle through a blizzard, trying to get to their destination before they’re stranded, a situation with potentially deadly consequences. It’s impossible to describe more of the film without giving too much away, but it’s safe to say that Burkard and his team made it through unscathed. Not, however, before finding what they were looking for, along with an unexpected surprise that truly made this trip a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for both Burkard and his crew of surfers. A Conversation With Chris BurkardAfter watching the film, the team here at Resource Magazine was ecstatic. Inspired and eager to hear more about its production, we reached out to Burkard, who graciously agreed to sit for an interview. We asked the husband and father of two about his zany projects, his buddy trips, and how he gets back into a work/life balance after returning home from one of his expeditions. No matter what the project, it seems like the thing you get most excited about is team camaraderie; it’s like your favorite movie genre is buddy-comedy or buddy-adventure. What inspires you to keep making these crazy ideas come to life along with your pals?
“Regardless of how much you plan, Mother Nature is always in charge”: wise words from your boat captain. Is not being able to surf that break in the Westfjords something that will stick with you forever? A “what if” moment? Do you think there was a time in your life, maybe in your younger years, where you would have fought the advice of the seasoned captain in order to get the shot you had envisioned, no matter the cost?
There are some points in the film where the discussion of actually cutting your losses was brought up. Knowing you, I never thought I would hear you even entertain such a thought. How close were you really to giving up on this idea because of the hardships you endured?
You’ve done a lot of pretty cool adventures, including filming ‘Arctic Swell’, that awesome 10 day trip with me. Out of every crazy adventure you have done, where does “Under an Arctic Sky” rank?
Do you think you will ever get tired of the frigid Arctic?
What were you using to light up the wave under the Northern Lights?
No doubt this project was intense. After such a mental and physical challenge, how do you re-balance yourself once you get home?
Follow Burkard’s adventures on his website, Facebook, and Instagram. Read Burkard’s exclusive article for Resource Travel, “Adventure is My Inspiration”
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Holiday Break 2017
12/26/2017
I want to take a sec to introduce myself…but with a holiday twist! My name is Jasmine Star (but my pals call me J Star) and I’m photographer + business strategist from Newport Beach. I’m blessed to work with my husband/business parter (JD) and our grumpy dog (Polo). Christmas is my favorite holiday, and it wouldn’t be complete without watching Home Alone, wrapping gifts in ridiculously large bows, making tamales, and sipping champagne. I spend too much time staring at the Christmas cards my friends send (no, really, it’s creepy), especially when they come from my students. I am SO proud to see them build their businesses and create a life they love. This is why each year I step back and reevaluate where my business is headed in the future and I find more ways I can help. We’ll be taking a break from social media until 2018, but I’m already SO excited to follow our dreams and help each other in the New Year!! Much Love + Appreciation… j* via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2C7nA6v “Welcome to Day One,” Magic Leap‘s newly-updated website reads. And perhaps, far in the future, we may just refer to it as such. The uber-secretive startup, notorious for its $1.9B fundraising spree featuring the likes of Google and Alibaba, finally began teasing its core product–an augmented reality headset named the Magic Leap One Creator Edition–with a website reboot outlining its features and promising to ship in 2018. Though it is still only announcements, press releases, well-curated images and a fancy website, all signs point to one conclusion: the hype is real. What makes Magic Leap’s AR distinct from the already-much-hullaballooed VR is that, rather than taking over your reality completely, it engages with it. In that way, it’s like if VR designers had met with your parents’ generation beforehand to assuage their concerns about their children turning out: “Okay, okay, they won’t be in a totally other world, they’ll just be looking at things you can’t see. But it’ll still seem like they’re looking at you? Is that okay, Mrs. Peterson?” To achieve such daunting tasks as, in their own words, “a panda that climbs across your living room couch,” Magic Leap sports a robust sensor that is sure to put even your mighty DSLR to shame. Some other promises? A “first-person shooter in your living room,” a “virtual T-Rex…behind you,” and a “virtual TV over the fireplace” which remains there even as you enter and exit your augmented reality. The key to their revolutionary product, and the reason why they are so ahead of the pack, is a theoretical understanding of consciousness hit upon by CEO and founder Rony Abovitz, as described to Rolling Stone. Essentially, by treating the brain as a “graphics processor in a computer” which constructs images based upon sparse information in order to allow its user to function properly, Abovitz and his team realized that their “technology didn’t need to capture the entirety of the light field and recreate it; it just needed to grab the right bits of that light field and feed it to the visual cortex through the eye.” This would allow them to focus on what needed to be done, eschewing the rest, and shrinking the size of their project to surmountable–albeit still incredible–proportions. Most relevantly for us here at Resource, creation-minded as we are, is the open source nature of Magic Leap‘s software; there is indeed a reason why the word Creator is in the product’s title. It’s more than just a piece of hardware with unique processing abilities, it’s a “computing platform with a whole new set of capabilities” which, as of “early 2018,” will allow open access to all of its “tools, documentation, learning resources and support.” For those of us not content to simply live in an augmented reality (as if we don’t already), we’ll be able to make our own. Imagine creating your own world and then selling that world to others because they want to live there, too. Creepy? Yes. Totally awesome and possibly lucrative for those with a lively imagination? Even yes-er.
Magic Leap promises to begin shipping in 2018. Until then, sign-up on their website to be informed of partnership opportunities. Though figures haven’t been released, the gear is rumored to retail somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500. Until then, don’t expect the Florida-based startup to stay complacent. As their website warns (or totes, depending on your point of view) in fine print, “Product is continually advancing and may be different at time of shipment.”
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12/21/2017
In this video, MKBHD tackles the phenomena that is cellphone camera “portrait mode.” Whether its the latest offering from Google, Apple, Microsoft or Atari, the phrase “now with portrait mode” or, “now with a more advanced portrait mode” is certain to be found at least once in every press release, and is more likely than not to be featured prominently. Courtesy MKBHD Long a staple of DSLRs, Apple first brought the “portrait”–a.k.a. one in-focus plane and a blurred back- and foreground–to the consumer cellphone market with the release of the iPhone 7. It was able to do so by arming the device with dual cameras, allowing it to perceive depth like a pair of human eyes. Two iPhones and numerous software updates later, Apple is no longer the only one in town playing the blurred background game, with just about every other major producer adding dual cameras to the point that a phone being released without the feature needs to explain itself. Eye-roll courtesy MKBHD It is at this point in the hysteria where MKBHD comes in, amidst the hubbub, to separate truth from rumor and fantasy from fact. Without favor or allegiance, he runs the gamut on a few versions of the software, using, respectively, an iPhone X, a Note 8, and a Pixel 2, comparing them all to his beloved Hasselblad. Unsurprisingly, the verdict is somewhat mixed. While the companies have made great strides since its first introduction, several difficulties remain, mostly due to the constraints of the phone’s sensor. The iPhone, for example, isn’t so much a “portrait mode” in the sense that anything can be the focus of the portrait, but rather more like a “face” mode. Because the iPhone can not, like the Hasselblad, set a specific distance for a plane of focus–instead attempting to put everything in focus–it relies on technology to detect the focal point and blur the rest accordingly. However, due to how its sensors were trained, it is particularly reliable on human and animal faces, but not much else. Traditional Portraiture on a DSLR In the same vein, because it can not differentiate the distance between the focal point and the other figures in the photo–there being no focal plane–it simply blurs everything that falls outside of this central figure. This in contrast to the Hasselblad which does not blur evenly and indiscriminately, but according to the distance a point is from the plane of focus, giving the photo a more “natural” look akin to human eyesight. For all of these difficulties, however, MKBDH remains optimistic. After all, he notes, these devices have come leaps forward in a minuscule amount of time, while a DSLR camera is unlikely to improve its portrait mode in any radical way–it doesn’t need to. While the pro is still gonna lug around his DSLR, wary of the inaccuracies and distortions that Apple and Google’s software create and eager for the biggest sensor, these improvements should be taken seriously, without getting out of hand. Amidst all the white-guys-in-collared-shirt-with-black-backgrounds-and-people-clapping-while-he-displays-powerpoint-slides-and-rambles-technobabble nonsense, it’s important to be clear on what “portrait mode” currently lacks, saving our applause for the engineers who solve these problems, and not the showmen who ignore them. All Stills Courtesy Marques Brownlee Cover Photo Courtesy Alex Iby @unsplash via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2zaYcJZ
He Broke My Friggin Camera: In Honor Of Josh Homme 7 Celebs Caught On Camera Destroying Cameras
12/21/2017
Another day, another celebrity victimizing photographers and their equipment. Queens of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is our latest assassin in this epidemic after he kicked a photographer’s camera during a performance. This incident made us think of all the other times we’ve seen celebrities lose their shit and break photographer’s equipment and/or face. So, in the spirit of the holiday, let us relive these episodes through a list of some of the best and most notorious outbursts…. enjoy? P.S Laughing is permitted but also frowned upon. Watching your own kind get beat up is a perverse pleasure which we can’t help but indulge in every so often but, still, keep it low key. 1. Josh Homme mistakes camera for soccer ball, concert for World Cup Our most recent incident involves photographer Chelsea Lauren during Queens Of Stone Age’s set at the KROQ “Almost Acoustic Christmas” in Los Angeles. Frontman Josh Homme’s kick was wildly uncalled for, and the video makes that as clear as day. Lauren suffered only minor injuries, but did end up in the E.R that same night, putting a damper on the festivities and adoration for the band. Although Homme has publicly apologized, we can’t help but think it’s to protect his own interests, as he could be slammed with a pretty hefty lawsuit. This seems like an important time to remind our kids that rock and roll can still be cool–albeit perhaps slightly less cool–without assaults on press or rabid fans. 2. Lamar Odom enters hybrid vehicle in search of camera like a bear after honey While his effectiveness on-court steadily waned since the day he was traded for Shaquille O’Neal, his ability to completely destroy thousands of dollars’ worth of camera equipment has only improved since arriving in LA. This notorious Skittles addict is unique in that he didn’t have to wait for the camera to be in someone’s hands for it to face his annihilation, instead going straight to its resting place. Exiting his own white Mercedes, Mr. Odom can be seen opening the back of an unmanned grey Prius (because, after all, if you’re driving a Prius you have enough love for humanity to leave your doors unlocked), and emptying it of its contents–most notably a sizable amount of camera equipment. Though details on the damage are hard to come by, we can assume that the impact of the pavement, coupled with the strength of a professional athletes’ propulsion, rendered this equipment useless afterwards. Interestingly, he seemed unfazed by the numerous individuals who can be seen filming his tirade throughout the process, allowing us this unfiltered peek into his rage against the mirrorless DSLR machine. 3. Matthew McConaughey travels with a roving gang of surfers To be clear, Mr. McConaughey was not directly involved in this scuffle. While visiting Malibu for a surf outing, a gang of paparazzi, as could be expected, followed in his wake. Unfortunately, these poor camera-toting men and women were unaware of the extremes that surfers would go to protect their turf. Shirtless, angry and decidedly not-laid-back, we can see fifteen to twenty of them attacking the press corp stationed just outside of the beaches bounds. A camera was smashed, a nose was broken, and already tenuous surfer-photographer relations were severely damaged. Luckily, a police report was filed and justice was served. However, let this be a warning to all future action/celebrity photographers. Shoot surfing, or shoot Matthew McConaughey, but never, ever try to shoot Matthew McConaughey surfing. 4. Sharon Stone protects her children from….something Ms. Stone can be seen here protecting her kids from the lens’ gaze as if she thought it would steal their soul. While our documentarian was too busy going number two to capture the throw-down in its full glory, we get a nice before and after, including the resulting damage. Moral of the story, if your friend is going to engage a notorious Hollywood badass in a his-camera-vs.-her-child’s-privacy-death-match please, for the love of god, use the bathroom beforehand. Her kids aside, humanity has truly been wronged here by being deprived of this almost assuredly solid gold footage. 5. Woody Harrelson sees zombies This one speaks for itself. White men can’t jump, but they can get extremely mad at other white men with cameras. Woody alleged afterwards that, having spent the past few months shooting a zombie flick he “understandably mistook” the cameraman “for a zombie.” Hence why he also physically assaults him. Not sure why a zombie would have a camera though unless it was X-ray and allowed him to look at Woody’s brains, helping to decide whether they are worth the trouble of cracking open his skull. Anyway, the cameraman’s reaction on this one is priceless: “he broke my friggin’ camera.” 6. Alec Baldwin goes right to the source While most celebs rest easy after having broken a paparazzi’s camera—thinking they have thus evaded having their image captured–Mr. Baldwin knows better. Rather than simply destroying the tools of the photographer, he goes after the photographer himself: try taking a photo with a broken arm, ya big dummy. While this is perhaps the scariest scenario for a photog, it is also a great honor, testifying to their indomitable will. After all, he is conceding that the only thing that could stop one from getting the shot they want is numerous broken bones. Little does he know–not to give him any ideas–but he’s going to have to wrest that camera from our cold, dead hands. 7. Shia LaBeouf fails miserably Much like his attempts at remaining hidden from Redditors, or becoming a rap sensation, Mr. LaBeouf here just can’t seem to get it right. Irked by a camera wielding follower, he exited his vehicle charged right at him, hoping to do some serious camera-and-face-smashing. Happily for our photographer, this raging curly-headed foe is evaded, left wandering the parking lot wondering just what went wrong. He’s lucky, too. Had he broken anything, I’m sure he would’ve gotten been sued and forced to repay our dear friend here in order to, yes I am going to do this, in order to….make things….EVEN STEVENS. HAH!
Many thanks to Cassandra Rohr who contributed reporting and penned the intro. She loves QOTSA so it wasn’t easy for her. Luckily for us, she loves the Resource community even more. Feature Image Courtesy Dave Dugdale, who can be found @ http://ift.tt/1Ch07b7
via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2BfQf8o In 2015, director Sean Baker made headlines with his film Tangerine. The Sundance hit was unique for the powerful story it told—the story follows a day in the life of a transgender sex worker after she discovers that her pimp boyfriend is cheating on her—but more so for the way it was shot: with simply three iPhone 5s handsets. If that doesn’t fill any aspiring filmmaker with hope and inspiration, I don’t know what will.
Now, two years after the film’s release, The Academy of Motion Pictures has been granted access to one of the 5s phones used to film the movie to display in their Academy Museum. Set to open its doors in 2019, the Museum will honor the art and science behind moviemaking, giving us an immersive look at the inner workings of cinematic creation. In his promotional video for the Academy Museum, Sean Baker brings us back to the set location for one of Tangerine‘s most climactic scenes, where he discusses the use of an iPhone camera to make such a well-received film. He explains that the only equipment used to make the film were the three iPhones, an anamorphic adapter, a Steadicam rig, and an $8 Filmic pro app to edit the movie after it was shot. The film ended up scoring 7x its budget in theater sales.
It is no wonder the Academy is eager to feature Baker’s filmmaking methods in their museum, as his iconic, minimalist production style goes to show that sometimes the importance of talent and storytelling far exceeds the need for fancy, expensive equipment. Though he didn’t receive any Oscar nominations for the indie film, his work will be immortalized at the new museum, where his production methods will continue to inspire. Check out the full promotional video here:
You may have recently stumbled upon some downward perspective photography of feet dangling off the top of a skyscraper or high-rise. Those vertigo-inducing photos are achieved through what people call “rooftopping”, a fairly new trend we’ve seen amongst our photography community. Though the outcomes of the photos can be quite impressive, this photography phenomenon has gained a dicey reputation, considering the many risk factors behind it. Rooftoppers are not like other photographers, being that their profession or hobby requires them to climb on unknown construction cranes, or even hang off 50-story buildings for a shot. Also the circumstances involved in this photography, makes it in fact illegal. Unless you have ties to the building you’re about to scale or hang off of, it’s considered trespassing. Not to mention, the danger you might put the public in or the first responder who may have to save you from a hazardous situation. So in conclusion, there is a lot to carefully consider and prepare for, before you take on such a project on, for example, will I get arrested for the shot? Or even worse, will I die or get someone hurt for the shot? It’s crucial to understand that your safety is never guaranteed in rooftopping, even as cautious as you are. This photography certainly takes a person with a thirst for thrill and big cojones. On another note, the unfortunate truth behind this extreme photography, is that there have been recorded deaths behind it. Just last month, a famous Chinese “rooftopping” enthusiast died on camera, after he fell from a 62-story building. It had been just another day for Wu Yongning, recording his daily daredevil stunts. Although, Yongning did these fearless challenges on a regular basis, the lack of safety equipment played a big factor in his death. It’s one thing to take a photo off from the ledge of a skyscraper with a safety harness intact, but doing pushups off one of tallest building in China, with nothing to rely on but your strength and grip is another. We can only the hope the sad story about Yongning, makes people more conscience of rooftopping and how in an instance it can end your life. One fall can be fatal, so take precautions and use safety equipment. Basically, the shot is not worth your life.
via RSSMix.com Mix ID 8230553 http://ift.tt/2CPuv3k An opportunity for photographers, unlike anything offered before, has presented itself thanks to Masterclass.com: a full master class taught by none other than world renowned photographer, Annie Leibovitz. You are certainly familiar with Leibovitz’s work, even if you don’t know it. She frequently shoots the top A-list stars for the cover of magazines the likes of Vogue and Vanity Fair, and is responsible for some of the most famous images to date. Well-known for her ability to capture raw human emotion, Leibovitz says in her promo video for the course, “We’re so complicated as human beings, theres so many parts to this. That’s where the ideas come from. Even in the most set-up situations, I believe there’s something real going on.” Just in case you need more convincing, here are some of her most famous works: Photo by Annie Leibovitz Photo by Annie Leibovitz Photo by Annie Leibovitz Photo by Annie Leibovitz Photo by Annie Leibovitz Leibovitz has joined forces with MasterClass, to create a personalized class that captures her legendary style and techniques. This is not the first time MasterClass has flaunted flashy names—they’ve offered courses in all fields by some of the most famous people in the world. This includes directors like Martin Scorses, basketball players like Stephen Curry, tennis players like Serena Williams, and chefs like Gordon Ramsey. It’s no wonder Annie Leibovitz was the top of MasterClass’s list for a once in a life time photography experience. Leibovitz’s master class will feature stories about some of her most famous work, an on-set case study with chef/author Alice Waters to see Leibovitz in action, and a post-production session where you’ll see the time that goes into images after shooting. After a photo subject once told Leibovitz that she often sits waiting to be inspired, Leibovitz tells her potential students in her MasterClass promo video: “Isn’t that what we all do? Wait to be inspired?” Well, wait no longer, because after a MasterClass taught by Annie Leibovitz, you will likely be overflowing with inspiration. Enrollment is officially available for the master class. Students can purchase an unlimited pass to all MasterClasses for $180 or purchase them individually for $90 per class. You can begin enrollment here.
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12/19/2017
As winter moves in and temperatures drop, environmental conditions for shooting are changing rapidly from day to day. The cold weather, sometimes accompanied by snow, shouldn’t keep you from getting out there—if anything, you should be taking advantage of the beauty that is often overlooked when it comes to winter conditions. That being said, it is important to be properly prepared for shooting in cold weather conditions, as well as to have adequate knowledge of your photo gear, so you can practice your passion safely and without harming your equipment. Here are some tips to follow, so you can enjoy the coming winter, and get some awesome shots, too. DO
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12/18/2017
We’re only three months out from the infamous David Slater case— in which PETA sought to claim copyrights on behalf of the crested black macaque Naruto over his own portraits– and already we’ve got more monkey selfies. This time, subsequent legal action notwithstanding, the photographer of record was wildlife photographer and author Ian Wood. Ian Wood Photography Mr. Wood was visiting the Tanjung Puting national park in Borneo, working as he does regularly to conserve orangutan habitats, when he decided to hide his GoPro amidst the dense brush. Hoping to get some “close-up wide-angle images” of these “great apes,” he figured the worst case scenario would be that one of them discovers the camera, realizes it isn’t food, and discards it. Clearly Mr. Wood had underestimated the exceptional narcissism of his hairy friends. Ian Wood Photography
Thus he was surprised when a three-year-old orangutan quickly picked up the little device and began snapping intimate pictures of its eyes, nose, mouth, duck face, etc. Evidently displeased with the lack of bokeh he was seeing, our silly orange friend made the same mistake many of us do when we find ourselves frustrated by our own image–bite something. Unfortunately in his case, the only object in site was the GoPro itself, and thus he received just the satisfaction of cracking an LCD screen with his incisors, an admittedly unpleasant sensation, at least for his more evolved brethren. Ian Wood Photography Unacquainted with failure, and thirsty for the like-mediated approval of strangers, tree-swingin’ Kylie Jenner didn’t stop there. In fact, his oral rendezvous with the camera seemed to have alerted him to a deep truth of its existence: to get good pictures, you have to take many shots. Newfound wisdom in hand, he went on to “accidentally”–according to Mr. Wood–take “hundreds and hundreds” of photos.
Mr. Wood, meanwhile, whose thinly veiled jealousy was betrayed by his frequent expressions of condescension –such as calling the work “a few…remarkably decent photos’– kept track of his camera via a livestream to his iPhone. When, thirty minutes later, the orangutan dropped the GoPro from within the canopy, evidently believing it to be a cell phone and attempting a Schrodinger’s Text in response to what stimuli we may never know, Mr. Wood came back onto the scene–without a yellow hat, I should mention–to recover his goods. Ian Wood Photography Fast forward to December 6th and this selfie monkey’s got his mug plastered all over the web. Humans, it seems, never learn from their mistakes, and will continue appropriating the private portraits of orangutans and other ooh-ooh-ah-ah’ing animals until the end of days. May God have mercy on our souls. Images Courtesy Ian Wood Photography Feature Image Courtesy Quentin Dr @unsplash
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