What I find interesting about this shot of me and the monkey, is that it seems to be technically quite good despite the fact it was taken by a complete stranger.
As soon as the monkey climbed onto my shoulder, I was surrounded by half a dozen or more tourists snapping away with their P&S cameras. I made the comment, out loud, to no-one in particular, "It's a pity I can't take photos of myself."
Immediately, a buxom young lady offered to photograph me with one of my cameras. I was carrying a D700 with 14-24 zoom, and a D7000 with 24-120 VR zoom at the time. I quickly handed her the D7000 which was in manual mode, F5.6 at 1/800th, ISO 100 and single focussing point.
After the young lady had taken several shots from different angles and different focal lengths and the monkey had decided to jump off my shoulder after realising that I didn't have any bananas (so much for love), the young lady handed back my D7000 with the comment that she hoped the images would be okay because she hadn't been able to see any of the shots she'd taken on the camera's LCD screen.
I did my best to explain the reasons why, but in retrospect, if I'd been thinking more quickly, I could have put the camera in aperture priority mode and ISO 800 before handing it to her. I must be getting old.
All the images were significantly underexposed of course, which is why the camera's review screen would have displayed a largely black image.