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Roman Kurywczak
11-18-2010, 10:23 AM
Congratulations Andrew Aveley!!! Wildlife IOTW for the week ending 9/10/2010: Leopard

1. My First post as a member on BPN .On a recent trip to Sabi Sands in the Greater Kruger area of South Africa , I photographed this young male leopard on patrol of his territory. We anticipated he would take this short path into the open of a fire break before moving back into the cover of a thicket. I was rewarded with a few frames of this head on view. It was late afternoon with overcast sky s.

ISO 1000 , F4 , Canon 1dMK3 , 300 F2.8 L , Monopod with Wimberley Head

PP included USM and basic levels and NR.

Ken Watkins
11-18-2010, 11:08 AM
Missed this first time round as I was out of Internet reach, not often you get a Leopard in this sort of interesting pose.

Congratulations:cheers::cheers:

Morkel Erasmus
11-18-2010, 04:33 PM
congrats on this one Andrew - and with your first post as member "nogal" :)

Harshad Barve
11-18-2010, 09:46 PM
Congratulations Andrew

Steve Maxson
11-19-2010, 06:17 PM
Congrats Andrew! Well deserved!

Grant Atkinson
11-22-2010, 08:31 AM
Nicely done Andrew..good head-on angle and raised paw make it work for me
cheers
Grant

Lorant Voros
11-22-2010, 01:10 PM
I love this image since the moment you posted it. Very well deserved to make it the IOTW. Big congratulations, Andrew.

Lorant

Andrew Aveley
11-23-2010, 11:16 AM
thanks for the great feedback on this site! It great to share this amazing world of wildlife!

Nate Chappell
11-28-2010, 11:17 PM
Congrats Andrew, great image and angle!