In wildlife photography it is important to showcase life, show life living, doing what wildlife does. This means that we need to show the animal doing something. I have said this before, images of animals just looking at you are generally boring. Watch the animals, observe their behavior. Show what they do.

This image is so much more interesting than one where the baboon just stared at the viewer with an expressionless face. So how do you capture images like this? It just takes patience. You have to watch the animal through the viewfinder, finger on the shutter. It may take a long time to get an image showing action but that is the price you are asked to pay to get an image worthy of the animal it portrays.

          Make sure to pick a large aperture because we want the background blurred. We want the animal to stand out, distraction-free. Most people have probably never seen a baboon's teeth. So when they see them in your image it makes them stop and look. It creates a central point of interest. As usual, frame the image right with more space in front of the animal than behind the animal.

          So show life. Capture animals living. Show their behavior. Show their interaction with one another or with nature.