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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Tony Jay on December 03, 2013, 03:49:07 pm

Title: Leopard on the move
Post by: Tony Jay on December 03, 2013, 03:49:07 pm

This leopard was stalking Red Lechwe in the Okavango Delta.
Every now and then the leopard would adopt this posture to see over the tall swamp grass.
By the time the evening light completely faded this leopard was only yards from the Red Lechwe who were still oblivious to its presence.
We never did get see the kill.

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Post by: The Ute on December 03, 2013, 07:06:02 pm

Awesome.

Wish I were there w you.

:)

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Post by: Paulo Bizarro on December 04, 2013, 04:05:38 am

Amazing, I didn´t knew leopards would do that.

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Post by: LesPalenik on December 04, 2013, 05:00:36 am

Great shot, Tony!

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Post by: john beardsworth on December 04, 2013, 05:25:13 am

Lovely

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Post by: francois on December 04, 2013, 06:48:26 am

Surprising posture and a very pleasing shot.

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Post by: William Walker on December 04, 2013, 07:04:34 am

I've not seen that before!

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Post by: Rory on December 04, 2013, 09:47:28 am

Killer shot.

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Post by: pluton on December 06, 2013, 04:41:03 am

Excellent.  In all the wildlife films and stills I've seen in a lifetime I have never seen this behavior depicted.

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Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on December 06, 2013, 06:48:06 am

Great shot.
I would hang that on my wall, 24" wide.

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Post by: mattpallante on December 06, 2013, 01:35:59 pm

Amazing!

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Post by: Tony Jay on December 07, 2013, 03:09:09 pm

Thanks to all for their kind comments!

Tony Jay

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Post by: jjj on December 07, 2013, 04:11:56 pm

One of my domestic moggies sits like that, but I've never seen a shot of big cat like that before. Great capture.

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Post by: Rajan Parrikar on December 07, 2013, 05:42:25 pm

Excellent. I see that you had the 1.4x on the 500mm lens.