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I’m Back from Sabah - Meet Jackie

March 20th, 2008 by ShaolinTiger at 1:39 PM MYT - 666 views

Will post some pictures soon, gotta get all the clothes to the laundry and tidy up the house a bit, load up all the photos (lucky my PSD has Firewire!) and a few other things I need to do.

Just a taster - Meet Jackie.

Meet Jackie

Jackie is a fairly domesticated Orang-Utan in Sabah near to Mount Kinabalu. She comes out of the forest every day to eat fruits from the hands of a few selected people.

She was released into the wild 18 years ago along with 6 other juvenile Orang-Utans - they all disappeared into the thick forest but Jackie comes back without fail.

She loves human attention and beetlenut!

For those that know photography, this was taken at 48 mm focal length - so you can imagine how close I was.

Will update as soon as I can. Enjoy the holiday today.

Tags: animals, beautiful, great ape, jackie, kinabalu, orang utan, sabah, wildlife

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16 Comments so far

amos on March 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
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That's a nice shot. Well done.
I would be terrified if I'm too close. Orang utans can break you easily.
I'm curious, why is that Jackie's hair is black? Aren't they supposed to be brown-orange?
ShaolinTiger on March 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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amos: Thanks - Jackie is more orange/brown actually - the shot is somewhat desaturated as the original colour was very vivid and I found it detracted from the picture.
Angie on March 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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Nice pic. I've never got that close to an orang-utan before.
jon on March 20th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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eh. movie poster for king kong the sequel right? Love the lighting. love the sparkle in the eye. nicely done. dont know how to make better
jon on March 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
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and i am not using netscape navigator ! :p ... i am using firefox, a mozilla codebase browser.
Dabido on March 20th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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Grandma Jackie!!! Is that you?
It is! Grandma!!!!! At last I've found you!!!
KY on March 21st, 2008 at 12:11 am
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no wonder looks like dabido!
acidict on March 21st, 2008 at 1:38 am
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Nice shot dude and ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY
cindy on March 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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u got so close to jackie. trying to poison jackie with your lense? who knows the next time i visit, jackie will be shooting me using 50mm
Albert Ng on March 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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48mm on APS-C, you mean? Or having the 1.5x crop factored in? (Whoa.)

The desaturation makes for a nice Kong effect.
ShaolinTiger on March 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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Angie: Yah it's an amazing experience.

jon: Thanks! I really like it too.

Dabido: Hahahha resemblance is there.

acidict: Thanks

cindy: Yah...maybe that might happen.

Albert: Yah, without crop factor in, still pretty close tho (72mm equiv).
Ds on March 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 am
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nice shot,keep up the good work =).Was photoshop used?
ShaolinTiger on March 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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Ds: Yah I use it for every shot as I use Adobe Camera RAW to convert, then Photoshop to sharpen and add contrast.
EF on March 29th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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Hello! Could you tell me where you spent the night when you were in Sandakan/Sepilok? I'm planning an orang utan trip in June 2008.
ShaolinTiger on March 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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EF: We stayed one night in Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, one night in Sepilok Jungle Resort (walking distance to the Orang-Utan Sanctuary) and then one night in Hotel Sandakan to check out the town.
Sat on June 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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Hey Tiger,

Do you know how hard it is for me to click here and the just to find blog about jackie?? if you remember me, im one of jackie's boyfriend. I checked all your collections and dude, nice job! regards to Kim

Regards,
Sat
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