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Here's another from last month's trip to Denver zoo. I love Leopards. What a beautiful animal this guy is. Shot this with my 300mm f2.8 lens with a 2x converter, making it into a 600mm.
This last African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) sighting of the trip. This large animal was briefly spotted entering thick brush as the light was fading. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa. Conservation status: Vulnerable
This Leopard was moving so fast across the road, a matter of point and shoot.
A lucky sighting.
Kruger National Park
This photo, taken by my wife happened at 7:00 in the morning on the S25 near Marloth Park. Not bad for A D3100.
North Chinese Leopard ~ Menagerie Zoo ~ Jardin Des Plantes ~ Saturday May 4th 2019.
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So in the time I had to kill between waiting for the train back to London yesterday, I decided to go to the Menagerie De Zoo ~ Jardin Des Plants, in the centre of Paris as ya do & I was rewarded by being able to capture the North Chinese leopard...it was a good day.:)
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This young lady allowed Todd Gustafson and I to approach closer and closer, using shorter and shorter lenses. In reviewing my shots from this year I wanted to post this one after seeing a similar shot of Todd's, to emulate a truly great photographer.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
I took a few hours off from work today after I learned through the grapevine that a leopard had killed a warthog over the weekend and pulled it up a Mopani tree, 4 Km from the Phalaborwa entrance gate. Everyone in town with a mobile phone, iPad and/or camera rushed to the scene over the weekend to take photos of the poor beast. This morning however, only a few vehicles were present and the leopard had left the tree to hide under Mopani shrubs against the sun and the camera lenses. After a while it got up, crossed the road and disappeared in a ditch. Everybody left but I stayed a bit longer hoping that the leopard might reappear. I was not disappointed as it soon came out of the ditch and walked straight towards me where I was parked across from where the ditch was. Since my camera was mounted to my door I could not close my window and had to reverse to get out of harms way. I had no idea what the cat had in mind! Anyway, it re-crossed the road right in front of my vehicle and settled down on the shoulder of the road, two meters away from the open passenger window of my car. I for a moment thought that the poor thing was looking for company. I then again moved to the other side of the road to fit the leopard in my viewfinder (I only had my prime lens with me) and after a few shots my memory card was full, the leopard probably became irritated, got up and disappeared again, and I rushed home to tell my story.
The animal has a neck wound which I suspect was caused by the late warthog. It does not look serious though.
This encounter made my day, as Clint Eastwood would have said.
The image was not cropped, only re-sized.
Celui-ci n'a pas trop apprécié ma chanson... sa tête... Clovis fait la même quand il n'ose pas me dire que je suis ridicule :-D
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Wild male leopard against a backdrop of autumn coloured Mopane trees.
This powerful and agile leopard played hide and seek with us as he repeatedly disappeared in the long grass.
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Elle n'est pas plus féroce ni rapide à la course que les autres espèces, mais elle est joliment tachetée, la limace léopard.
The leopard is a very adaptable predator that lives in dense forest and open ground in large parts of Africa and Asia. Its prey ranges from small animals to antelope and other mid-sized prey.
About 20 minutes from the gate on the last day of our safari we finally sighted a leopard. After watching him observing an antelope crossing the track, our driver said we needed to go to avoid having to pay for another day in the park. He turned the key and nothing happened. After a nervous few minutes he was able to instruct us how to access the battery by removing the floor. All the movement was very interesting for the leopard who seemed to be hoping someone would step out to push the van. We did get it started and got to the gate, only 5 minutes late.
We had been looking for leopards all evening until our guide got a call on the radio from another group that had just found one. The driver whipped in out of the bush and flew down the bumpy road. We approached the vehicles parked off the road and slowed down to see where they were looking. After driving over some small bushes, our guide positioned our truck in just the right spot. The Leopard was slightly covered by some vines and grass, but I was able to come away with this image.
I haven't done a burn to black edit for a while, nor have I posted anything for a while!
This is Sayan, the male Amur Leopard at Colchester Zoo. Amur Leopards are critically endangered with only an estimated 60 individuals surviving in the wild, though thankfully their numbers appear to be rising thanks to conservation work.
This trip was a quick test run for my new lens - the Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3. It's real test comes on my planned whale watching trips in the coming weeks! Any feedback is, as always, welcome.
Colchester Zoo, Essex, UK