The 2001 Nature's Best Photo Contest Winners
Leaping White-handed Gibbon, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia
Grand Prize Winner

Photograph by
Manoj Shah
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While photographing deep in the rain forest, Shah witnessed this juvenile gibbon hurrying to catch up with its mother. Anticipating its path and hoping it would come to this leafless tree, he prepared for the shot. As the youngster leaped from one branch to another, high above the forest floor, Shah captured it silhouetted against the sky.


Canon EOS 1 20-35mm 2.8lens, 125th/sec at f5.6 Fuji Velvia Film ISO 40