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Published: 2009-05-06 01:45:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 2522; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 72
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Zoos aren't always fun.Edit: Wow, thanks for all the AWESOME comments! I LOVE to hear all your opinions on this matter, its very interesting. Thanks for all the comments in advanced
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This is fucking beautiful
Literally, took my breath away.
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I love zoos and the fact that they are there to educate the public about animals, their lives and habitats. Also for the safe up-keeping and allowing species to live on in captivity.
But it is cruel to how the animals are restricted when all they want is to probably move around and be animals.
This photograph seems to show how worn the gorilla is and how fed up he is.
Great title too....
It's amazingly clear too....was it shot through glass...
I took a photo like this a few days ago, but it's of an Orangutan....he also looks very sad....
(sorry for the ranting)
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Great pic, the detail is really good, the contrast is just spiffing, and there's a great atmosphere ^-^
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one of the best photographs I've seen in a while... great focus...
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This made me so sad. I've been to zoos, even some alright ones, and they make me so, so tired of everything, like I just want to sit there and let them out, one by one. Animals are gorgeous, aware beings, and they deserve to be treated that way. You've captured the emotion behind that almost-human face in a way that no one can mistake for something else.
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You know what that honestly makes me think about? It makes me think about how quite a few people think animals are heartless and soulless creatures that kill. And you simply prove that animals have as much emotions as humans.
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gorgeous!
i love the focus being exactly at the point it needs to be! and the concept and emotion behind the picture is astounding.
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Fantastic photograph. Without sight of its eyes that changes this photo into a different perspective. Makes you think what they will be like, makes you think what the Chimp is thinking, forces you into it's place. As does the tight crop and the tones and monochrome quality to the image doesn't leave anything else to even momentarily distract the viewer from the empathy towards the ape.
Very well done.
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Wow, so emotive...
I'm going to make my little rant is small text because it's probably really boring... ^__^
I just arrived home from a Voiceless (fund for animals) lecture at Sydney Uni, about animal law. The main drive of the event was to encourage lawyers to take up animal law, as in law animals are still counted as "property" and not as sentient beings. Animal law is one huge gray area in 'justice' systems worldwide. Law and scholarship is one frontier of the fight for animal rights, but you know, I believe the role of the artist is even more powerful.
Photographs like this move people to compassion, they move people to see beyond what has become accepted. They engage a part of humanity that has become hardened and repressed. They make us feel, they connect us to our world. I don't know, but is there anything more important that that...
Um, sorry for the rant.
Beautiful photograph, love the crop, and as has been mentioned, spot on focus.
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when i read the title, it instantly made me sad. great shot, tho...
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Thats an awesome shot. Although looking at the thumb i was expecting to see some eyes, I think that would've made it just...way bomber, but its still pretty bomb just like this. lol Sweet shot. And RyanTheriault is right, that title totally adds to this shot.
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All eyes on me, in the center of the ring (just like a circus) when I crack that whip, everybody gonna trip (just like a circus) Dont stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do. Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor (just like a circus)
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awe rube,
thats gorgeous.
the title makes the picture, completely.
also, just bringing to attention that the focus is
dead on where it should be ( :
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