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Is that a warthog I can see over there?
The tourists happily snap away, unaware that there is a potential dinner feast nearby. In fact we did think that may be she had heard the herd of impala that we passed on the road near the lodge but in fact it was a family of warthog, well disguised in the long grass.
The recent rains has bought the bush totally to life, the tallest grasses are now reaching the bottom branches of the trees, making tracking and observing the animals very difficult. Even the hunters are taking to high ground to find a better vantage point, before using the vegetation as the perfect camouflage for the hunt.
African Leopard
During a "stroll" she marked her territory. Here she appeared to either rub to leave scent or was relieving an itch (a human interpretation of the action)
Panthera pardus pardus
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Sub-adult male leopard, photographed last morning at Wilpattu National Park. We spent over an hour with this curious 3-4 year old young male with no other vehicles to disturb the sighting (unlike at Yala). All the other vehicles were doing the Panikka villa circuit in search of the famous young leopard there whereas we decided to go in the opposite direction, end result was this photograph (and more) while everyone else saw naught. We allowed him to get comfortable with us rather than invade his space and he allowed me probably the best leopard photo op I have had in the last 5 years. Uncropped image taken on a full frame DSLR (5D III +500mm F4 IS)
For the final look of the session, Cindy suggested this leopard print wrap around dress and lace sleeved jacket.
For the accessories and earrings, Cindy felt that theses pearl effect ones would work well with the dress and jacket. To finish off, she also selected a pair of pearl bracelets.
We had been pleased with how the matte black mules looked in the previous look, so we decided to keep them for this one as well.
As with the previous look, we stayed in Cindy's makeup room, where she had me pose on the sofa and in front of her makeup table.
Wardrobe, makeup, styling and photography: Cindy, BoysWillBeGirls
I like the dark style with transparency. I think it's cleaner. This one is quite nicely done, too.
You can find it here: macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783903
Yala National Park - Sri Lanka
Goda Kalapuwa road. 8.30am
Canon EOS-5D Mark II, Canon 500mm f4L IS
Guy had just had a fight, probably half hour before. We caught him on the thalgasmankada road at about 7.30am, he moved towards the gonalehabba kalapuwa where I took this sequence. Spent the entire day marking his territory, in the evening we came across him heading towards the Yala crossing, again marking his territory.
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Taken at Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Leopard was resting on a termite mountain.
Clouded leopards are found throughout South-East Asia from southern China and central Nepal through to Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. They have also been found in the Himalayan foothills as high as 3000 m in altitude.
Photo of an 11 x 14 watercolor painting by Sharon Farber. Reference photo by Scotch Macaskill. To see more of my artwork go to www.paintedpath.com.
Leopard at The Living Desert.
This was tough shooting since the shots were taken through some very thick glass with a blue tint and the sun was nearly set so the light was very low.
All images © Allen Rockwell 2007
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