This highly-cropped image needed a little massaging to make it presentable. On virtually all of the monkey images some work was needed to make the eyes appear brighter, which included not only lightening in various ways but also an increase in color saturation. Because of the clack of the mirror on the Bigger Cahoona, many shots captured a curious stare right at the camera. The monkeys are obviously not used to hearing such, now that a vast majority of tourists take pictures silently with their phone cameras.Indeed it was worth the trouble lugging around the D850, as technically the pictures of these critters have proven to be far superior to those taken with the iPhone. But for wildlife shots like these one really needs a quality 500mm lens. To demonstrate perspective, the image below - the same one from which the above was cropped - was zoomed to its full 300mm, which is as close as I could get to these critters:
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