Leopards of Sabi Sands

[Ngala]

From Londolozi Game Reserve, The Week in Pictures #250 by James Tyrrell:
"The Nkoveni female on the move in the late morning. Unfavourable light gives one the opportunity to experiment with different camera settings, and I was on a low shutter speed here to blur the motion and accentuate the leopard’s movement."

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"We found the Nkoveni female again later that same evening, and watched with our hearts in our mouths as she stalked to within 10m of a herd of impala. Unfortunately for her they drifted just too far out of her ambush zone and she was forced to move off into the dusk. The next morning however, she was again tracked and found by Freddy Ngobeni, and she had a bushbuck kill to show for her night’s hunting."

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"This photo is actually a number of different pictures all stitched together in Lightroom. A longer lens meant I didn’t have a wide enough angle to capture the whole scene, but the Lightroom software is able to overcome that. Callum Gowar, Jerry Hambana and guests look up at the Mashaba female resting in the sausage tree above them."

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