Hopeful?

Fantastic capture!

Wow Steve – everything I expected, and more. A superb image, just superb. What an expression you have caught on this one. As your description tells, it is very sad that the numbers of these wonderful animals had dropped to such a low level. Unfortunately, as you say, the human population struggle to survive as well, and its so easy for people to just say dont do it when families struggle for an existence. Alternative livelihoods must be brought to play if anything is to be done to save these magnificent creatures.

Beautiful Stevie! Very well captured.

Wow, look at these eyes ….and hopefully it is never too late for those beautiful and peaceful creatures !!! Thanks for sharing this goegeous pfoto , Steve !!!

magnificent creature. he has such deep and soul capturing eyes.

Oh Steve what a beautiful and magical capture here. They really do captivate you with their eyes!! I thank you for sharing these beautiful photos of the mountain gorillas. And it’s my hope as well, that they are able to save these Wonderful animals before it’s too late

He looks like he’s got an attitute to me, excellent image Steve

cute

fabulous STEVE….

You can almost see the plea for help in his eyes. Beautiful eyes and beautiful creature.

Wonderful capture Steve, those eyes speak volumes. Nice work!!

great eyes and love the expression

Beautiful shot Steve

wow! you have amazing work!! I could comment on all of them!

Yes they capture so much through their eyes while capturing my heart. As sad as it is we take life for granted. Steve, what are some of the things people can do to help these gorillas? I wish I could of been there :)

Great, he like telling something!

Excellent primate portrait

Steve, Love it!

You are so lucky They are such beautiful creatures.

awww look at that face….his eyes are captivating

awesome image

This is just wonderful,Steve,love the tight crop,the glance and the terrific detail.The world spends billions a year to send starry eyed humans to a piece of junk floating above the earth,but can spare no funds to save man kinds closest relative,could someone tell them that there is no life on the moon!!!!

A classic Gurilla portrait. Very beautifuly done and captured. You managed to capture the true personality of this magnificent animal. Very soft, almost humane like expression. A wonderful image to educate people about the calm and good nature of these animals.

Excellent close up.

fantastic Steve…this is exactly the experience on my ‘next to list’. End of the year I will be in Antarctica, hope to get some great wildlife shots. But mountain gorillas are a must see! Love the shot!

Fantasic image.

Excellent close up

Beautiful image, Steve. You’ve really captured something special here in her eyes. Well done.

awww got to love Gorillas such adorable eyes

Steve, what can I say that hasn’t already been said? Simply a magical capture executed perfectly and the close crop finishing the image off perfectly.
You’ve got a portfolio that Andy Rouse would be proud of, all the best Damien.

Lvely take ,and portfolio.

A handsome devil I must say…great work Steve.

Beautiful shot, you really captured his soul.

incredible !!

Beautiful focus on the eyes, very well done. I love these guys, such a shame their numbers are so small…. :-(

brilliant image,,beautiful animal

WOW—i love this photo…..Wish I had somewhere to hang this one.

Their reality breaks my heart. This image is highly emotive, Steve. It is my hope that the late Dian Fossey’s Gorilla Fund continue the efforts in Rwanda for the Mountain Gorilla.

Thank you for sharing these exquisite individuals.

At a loss for words.

No words either, his eyes really hypnotized me…

wow factor yes!

super shot!

So sad and adorable. They all seem to be born with such old souls. The knowlege of the ages captured in those eyes

Aww..!! Such a sweet face!

Beautiful portrait, great focus (it is as if he is comming out of my monitor ;))

OH Wow…what a face! Truely shows what this face needs to show… which is “I am here, someone please notice!! Excellent portrayal of this magnificent animal!!

Very tender or somewhat malevolent… I saw both (sway stronger to the tender emotion though).

A wondeful close-up. So much expression!

Amazing capture Steve. Such a sweet expression.

So much character- great picture.

Brilliant shot Steve! It has always been a dream of mine to experience something like you have. Once I wrestled with a small orphaned mountain gorilla or more like he wrestled with me, he was very gentle. It was in a safari base camp in Equatorial Guinea, unfortunately on my three day jungle safari, just me and the guide, we only saw gorilla sign and never them. Since then I have dreamed of the day of getting a shot like yours. Great work…

Wow.. beautiful shot! What an amazing experience..

gorgeous – the expression is fantastic – the eyes especially :)

THis is beautiful, such soulful eyes!

Magnificent!

You’ve got it in one… an hour with Mountain Gorilla’s is so special, magical even. I saw them in Uganda, but where ever you see them it doesn’t matter… just make sure you see them somewhere in the wild!

Beautiful photo :)

this is a lovely picture
of an adorable gorilla:)

A very nice shot of a creature that seems to have some sympathy with you !

Congrats top 10!!! : ))

Even suffering from malaria and not eating or drinking for 3 days, seeing these gorilla’s in Rwanda was an amazing experience. I’m going to have to go back to enjoy them without being half delerious. They are amazing aren’t they.