SEBASTIAN — It has a tail and it jumps around faster than al servo auto focus, no, it’s not a new lens, it’s a monkey.
I would have never thought when I bought my Cotton Carrier rig to hold my cameras that it would enable to monkey to sit on the preview screen of my Canon 7D.
Last week I was photographing the new Marmoset monkey at LaPorte Farms and I was able to get into their environment when Rennie McKenzie was feeding him.
Once the monkey got its fill I think its curiosity was piqued by this new visitor and all the shiny things attached to him.
Not that it was a far jump; I was within two feet of him.
At first he landed on my shoulder and walked back and forth. Then he made a game of jumping from Rennie to me and back again.
After a few times jumping back and forth he settled on sitting on the back of my camera that was held by my carrier.
As I made a few photos blindly shooting with the lens pointed at me I thought to myself, “does my camera insurance cover monkey damage?”
Luckily, he was soft pawed, and I didn’t make any quick moves to scare him making him scratch the preview screen of the camera.
Even it if it would have happened I would have just chalked it up to being a photojournalist in the field and would have another story to tell.
