Hang Time

Photograph by Josh Laronge

I was guiding a group on a Madagascar and South Africa tour, and we’d stopped at the Mahajanga lighthouse. I felt something tugging at a pin on the back of my hat, I turned around, and found this mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) hanging a foot and a half from my face. When I lifted the camera, he saw his reflection in the front element of my camera. He held that pose for around 30 seconds while checking himself out.