The Adventures of Rob & Lauren

Here’s a nice little post for you to enjoy over the weekend! An assortment of shots from the jungle. Everything just sounds cooler when you say it’s “from the jungle”. Try it.

We were also lucky to spot the smallest monkeys in the world! Those photos are near the end of this post, if you’re just too excited to see them. I wouldn’t blame you. Monkeys are awesome.

And before we get into this post, just wanted to give a shout out to Susie! She was super wonderful and came up and said hi to us while we were out shopping. Now that we’re back home in Edmonton you might spot us out and about, so please come say hello! We love to meet our blog readers!!!

First up, a man fishing in the morning. It seems like such a quiet existence, very often I envy that. 

They often use nets as well as poles. This gent was checking to make sure his net was in good order. 

We were heading off for a stroll through the jungle, and had to be properly outfitted. You know you’re going to go to some awesome places when you have to wear your wellies (aka. rubber boots). 

Yeah, I rock the big lenses. P.S. Check out that *sweet* watch. Loved that thing. I’ll let you know all about it when we start reviewing our gear! P.P.S. Please excuse my nails. Gosh that’s embarassing! But c’mon, we were in the jungle!!

I was always amazed at the number of people they could fit in a boat, and how close they could get the edges of the boat to the water without sinking. 

These birds enjoyed just hanging out on this…thing? I don’t know what that is. A bird hang-out, let’s say. I really dig the symmetry and colours on the back of the bird that’s just about to land. 

This young girl was doing laundry on the banks of the river. I love her expression here. 

And this tree stump that we floated past had such great shapes going on. So many incredible things to see in a short boat trip!

One for all you creepy-crawly lovers out there. It terrifies me how well hidden this was. 

Here I am, modelling those rubber boots for all I’m worth. 

A couple shots of that gorgeous vegetation all around us. 

Oh my goodness. My new favourite animal of all time: the sloth. Honestly, these little guys are the sweetest little things you can imagine. At least this one was. Please don’t go pick up a wild sloth because “Lauren said they’re nice!”.

Anyway, a young boy saw us travelers coming past his small village and walked over with his pet sloth in the hopes that we would pay him to hold it. Well, I did, and that little sloth and I had a moment. I was giving him some pets on the head, and he was just loving it! Seriously, if I could I would have kept him forever and named him George. I miss George. 

Our guide spotted these teeny tiny little monkeys hanging out in the trees. He said they are the smallest monkeys in the world! I did some quick Googling and they might be Pygmy Marmosets (any monkey experts feel free to chime in!). Aren’t they incredible?? 

Another look at those cuties. 

And here’s a little guy hiding out in the trees. 

Shooting these monkeys was really really tough! I was using a 5DMKII, a 70-200 2.8 L IS, with a 2X Extender on it. In the end it was a 400mm lens I was trying to handle! That meant that these monkeys were faaaaar away, moved super quick and I was focusing through a ton of trees, which gave the camera major problems. Tough tough tough. I have so so so much respect for wildlife photographers after this trip. It’s so much harder than it looks! 

In regards to that extender, it’s useful when travelling as it effectively doubles the focal length of any of your lenses. The one downside is that you lose a few stops of aperture, as well as a bit of image quality, so it’s not a perfect solution. It’s small enough though that for these rare times we’re shooting wildlife, we’ll still bring it along!

Have a great weekend everyone! We still have so much to share with you, so make sure to keep checking back for more adventures!

Lauren :)