snow monkeys

During my last trip in early March 2025, I captured this amazing moment between what I presumed to be the mother and a young daughter snow monkey. The youngster clearly was having a bad day adnd the mother was embracing her tightly and rocking her back and forth exactly as a human mother would do. This embraced lasted at least 1 hour as I actually left them and came back to them at least once since my rear got frozen sitting on the near by path to capture this moment. Because I was using a 250mm lens I was able to give them plenty of space as they were hiding out in a shallow cave as this was also the height of the snow storm that day, In fact the snow you see on their fur is being blown into the cave. The detail on their fur in this medium format image is amazing, as is the light in their eyes This is one of my absolute favorite captures to date!