Cheetah Munching

[Morkel Erasmus]

Another case of being 'on the wrong side of the light' in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Check out my latest blog post HERE (http://saffascapes.blogspot.com/2011/10/shooting-against-light.html) about these conditions.
The late afternoon sun was behind the cheetah to the LHS.

A family of 5 cheetahs were devouring a springbok lamb right next to our vehicle.

I can't wait to return in 2 weeks! :bg3:

Techs:
Canon 7D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 235mm
f8.0 @ 1/200 SS @ ISO-400
Fill flash used

[Ken Watkins]

Morkel,

Given the conditions tis is a pretty good result, you have got to love the hind leg positiom.

The head looks a tad oversharpened to me, a pity you could not get more open eyes but lets face it they usually close their eyes whilst munching, need some sound for this one.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Nice viewpoint...Different to anything we normally see.

[Rachel Hollander]

Morkel - I like the pov down the body and good dof. You handled the light well.

TFS,
Rachel

[Harshad Barve]

Bhai , VWD indeed
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Mork, I like how the cheetah is lying diagonally across the image, and a good show of the bloodied head. Im still waiting for my first cheetah image. :w3

[Steve Canuel]

Nice composition Morkel. I like the diagonal placement of the cat across the frame, the backside view of the interesting leg position, and the look back view of the gnawing head. Also like the little clump of grasses behind the head.