Get a Grip

[Ken Watkins]

Forgot all about these so here is a slightly different image from the throttling series.

A young Leopardess crushes the head of an even younger Warthog, taking in appalling light the sun was setting behind the tree!

Kwando concession, Northern Botswana, 2nd January 2012

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 hand-held

F4, ISO 1600, 1/160, EV-0.67

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - light wasn't on your side but you did well under the circumstances. Nice that the pov seems to be straight on even though the leopard was up a tree.

TFS,
Rachel

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Ken light wasn't great but what a sighting. Would add more saturation or even try B&W on this image.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Ken light wasn't great but what a sighting. Would add more saturation or even try B&W on this image. IMO flash could have help alot, would have helped this image pop alot more.

[Andreas Liedmann]

What a shot ,excellent even under the poor lighting situation .I tried quickly to do some stuff on the colors ,but i was struggling to get something decent in short time.
Maybe tomorrow.
All the rest work well for me.

Cheers Andreas

[Mark Wiseman]

Hi Ken,
A majic capture. Sometimes we have to seize the moment and you have done that. I would definitely do a black and white conversion of this image.
TFS,
Mark.

[Sid Garige]

Ken,

Killer timing and fantastic action well captured. Good job in tough lighting conditions.

-Sid

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent job in given lighting , mighty sighting and VWD
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody, I will try a B& W when I am fully awake:w3
I rarely use flash but do not mind a spotlight now and again, in this case spotlight would have made little difference, if we had been the other side of the tree and she turned to face us then this would have probably been a bit better, but you make the most of what you are given, it was great to watch though only my third ever Leopard kill.