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in three visits to South Africa's Kruger National Park I only saw one leopard, but it was rather a magnificent one. It broke out of the bushes and crossed the road right in front of us on a dull morning, and then it was gone. I had to stop the car, change lenses and trust to luck, in less than 20 seconds, but I got this one shot which has it's own something about it even if it's on a road with a giraffe's legs in the background - to me it carries a lot of the sense of what it's life to experience the moment, which a classic leopard in a tree shot doesn't always. scan of 35mm transparency
Just on our way out of Kruger at Orpen Gate,this leopard came walking down the road.I was lucky to get this picture,some 30 seconds later he vanished into the long grass.Our one and only big cat encounter this day.
Gilbert suddenly swung the Land Cruiser round and headed off across the reserve at speed. We knew we were on our way to something worth seeing.
To say we were all blown away when we came across these magnificent creatures was an understatement. Leopards are extremely difficult to trace and locate in the wild so I'm told. To find two of them finishing off their impala kill in the early morning sun having dragged the carcass into a large tree was a rarity. This was a big draw and pulled in safari vehicles from far and wide. By the time we left the spot there must have been 8-10 vehicles surrounding the tree.
Leopards are astoundingly strong and are renowned for their agility. They are pound for pound the strongest of the big cats. They are able to climb trees, even when carrying heavy prey, and often choose to rest on tree branches during the day. One reason why leopards sometimes take their prey up in the trees is to ensure lions or hyenas can’t steal them. The leopard is the most elusive and secretive of the large cats.
Original jpeg straight from the camera with a few tweaks in acr and photoshop. Fuji X-E2 with 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 (effective focal length 502mm @ 35mm), aperture f7.1, exposure 1/350 sec, ISO 800 taken resting on the top of a safari vehicle.
Well, one week to go until the release of the book! I still want to shoot another couple of ideas that I have but I'm pretty sure I'll get them done before then. I've got a couple of essays to finish off this week but once they're done I can focus on the last shoot and putting the final touches on the book and then I can publish it. Yay =)
"In memory of admiral
Sir Bertram Ramsay
killed in action 1945, who
commanded the Seaborne
Forces at Dunkirk 1940
And Normandy 1944
here are remembered
also those under his
command who were killed
during these operations."
The window on the left depicts St. Nicholas, the shields of Dover & Dunkirk, with the black eagle of Ramsay in the centre, and the evacuation of the British Army from the beaches of Dunkirk. That on the right shows St. George, the arms of the Diocese of Portsmouth and the leopards of Normandy; in the centre is the shoulder-flash of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, which was situated in Southwick House, near the site of the old Priory of the Cathedral's mother church. The allied liberation armies pictured landing below on 6th June 1944, were controlled from Southwick, and many left from the beaches of Southsea. The nettle and the flower, one in each window are references to Hotspur's speech in Act II Scene III of Shakespeare's Henry IV part I: '...out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety'. In 1945, certain victory having been secured, the Hudson plane carrying Admiral Ramsay and four of his staff crashed on take-off, killing all on board.
Leopard in Tanzania
RJB Tanzania, Africa Tours
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/125s f/8.0 at 340.0mm iso200
The snow leopard’s five-inch thick coat affords great protection from the cold. The coat also comes in handy as camouflage, helping the leopard blend in with the rocky terrain to hide from potential prey. Sadly, the beautiful coat also hinders the leopard’s survival, as poaching for the fur is one of its major threats.
Snow leopard species are endangered species .. The snow leopard rarely meets humans, lives in the caves of the mountains and can kill a prey three times its size .. There are between 600 and 700 in zoos
We had been hoping to spot this female leopard for a few days. She had been seen recently at her regular Kopje haunt the day of our arrival moving her two new born cubs around. It took 3 days of regular visits to get a glimpse of her. On our final morning game drive we found her in a tree with a freshly killed wildebeest calf. We watched her for about 25 minutes moving the carcass further and further up into the tree.
Namiri Plains is located an hour and a half's drive due east from the game-rich core of the Serengeti – Seronera. The camp opened in July 2014 in an area that for more than 20 years had been closed to the public. Previously this region had exclusively been used for cheetah conservation and the number of big cats found here, especially lion prides and cheetahs, is astonishing.
This is one of the snow leopards at the zoo at Karlsruhe, Germany. I think it's the male. When I arrived he was just about to leave the front area of the enclosure. I was lucky, though, as before he disappeared out of sight he turned around once again and I managed to take this photo.
The capture was taken through glass.