{"id":3467,"date":"2010-12-26T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:43:03","slug":"amazing-orangutan-adventure-like-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/12\/26\/amazing-orangutan-adventure-like-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Orangutan Adventure; Like Bugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Mother Borneo Orangutan carrying baby on her shoulders, Tanjung National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image copyright 2010: Paul Mckenzie<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Amazing Orangutan Adventure; Like Bugs?<\/h2>\n

Regular readers should be familiar with the name Paul Mckenzie. Even before I met Paul on Midway I knew that he was a skilled, gifted, and hard working young photographer. Paul currently lives in Asia–Hong Kong, I think–with his wife Paveena. (Though they worked in the same office building, they met on a dive boat in the Galapagos.) Paul is having a go at being a full time professional nature photographer and travels the world extensively. He fell in love with East Africa after his first visit there in 1997 and returns often. Recently he made his second trip to a remote area in Indonesia reached only by somewhat arduous travel by boat. In his usual style, Paul produced an incredible collection of images in just four days. In very difficult conditions. One of the things that I most respect and admire about Paul (aside from his killer images) is that he is quite competent with lenses of all focal lengths. He is even good underwater. <\/p>\n

To see more great images and to read the complete story of the trip–hordes of mosquitoes and all, check out Paul’s blog here<\/a>. After you are impressed there, be sure to check out Paul and Paveena’s galleries on their Wild Encounters web site here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I am looking forward to seeing Paul again on Midway this April, and then again on the October 2012 South Georgia\/Falklands Expedition; so far 24 BIRDS AS ART folks will be joining me on that one. If you missed the announcement and would like to learn more, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Borneo Orangutan sheltering from the rain with makeshift leaf hat, Tanjung National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image copyright 2010: Paul Mckenzie<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

When I saw this my only thought was, “You gotta be kidding me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Adult and juvenile Borneo Orangutan in rainforest trees, Tanjung National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image copyright 2010: Paul Mckenzie<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The painterly qualities of this image are superb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Juvenile Borneo Orangutan portrait, Tanjung National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image copyright 2010: Paul Mckenzie<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The range of human-like expressions on the faces of the orangutans that Paul captured on his recent trip leave little doubt as to our family tree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Mother Borneo Orangutan carrying baby on her shoulders, Tanjung National Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image copyright 2010: Paul Mckenzie<\/p>\n

Amazing Orangutan Adventure; Like Bugs? <\/p>\n

Regular readers should be familiar with the name Paul Mckenzie. Even before I met Paul on Midway I knew that he was a skilled, gifted, and hard working young photographer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-misc","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}