Leopards of Sabi Sands

[Sully]

Elephant Plains Safari: A Day with Anderson Male …
(All images from Back of Brendon Cremer’s Camera)
 
Fanus Weldhagen Reports: 
 
Today was quite stupendous! We were lucky enough to spend virtually the entire day with Anderson Male and his buffalo kill in the tree.
We headed straight to the leopard before sunrise and it was still dark when we found him up in the tree with his kill. A wonderful morning followed as we photographed him in the gradually changing lighting conditions.
We did take a short break for early morning coffee. On the way we passed a large herd of buffalo (Probably the same herd that the kill was taken from) and soon after we encountered a lovely breeding herd of elephants with some really teeny babies. They are always a joy to photograph.
When we returned to Anderson Male he was eating hungrily, providing us with plenty of photographic opportunities.
Again we tried different exposures, at the same time concentrating on balancing the foreground with the background.
When we returned to the leopard this afternoon he gave us even more to photograph. He was quite restless, and after eating a bit more he repositioned the carcass. Then he looked around and decided to come down from the tree to the accompaniment of multiple rapid clicks from our cameras.
As the sun started to set and darkness set in we were able to experiment with a variety of lighting techniques again – much to everyones’ delight!
Oh – we had a bit of rain while we were out. This not only added to the ambience and mood of our images, it also means that the big cats should be very busy again tomorrow as they go about re-marking their territory …

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