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Morkel:
Perfect use of B&W. Simplifies the image to the essentials, those eyes. Works great for me!
Cheers
Randy
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I so admire those of you that get out there and capture these images. This one is cool Morkel and does show the shyness of the cat hiding in the grasses
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One of the best of your B&W series, Morkel. It's amazing how little of the cat you are actually showing here, but how powerful the capture is. Those eyes bore a hole through the viewer. I might consider a slight change in composition to make it even stronger. I would take a tad off of the top and right to bring the face a little more off center, more into the upper right.
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Morkel - this is very effective with the piercing eyes coming through the palms. You can feel the tentativeness of the cub. The conversion also works well. Just wish the grass on the right wasn't intruding on the face but at least it's not across the eye. Might want to burn the lighter areas near the bottom of the image, particularly the lone one on the rhs bottom edge.
TFS,
Rachel
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Works for me Morkel, very nice.
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Hi Morkel, I think I do prefer this image in B/W, it has more 'presece' for me, and conveys the message well using this medium.
Personally I'm not sold on the format and prefer the more safer route of 3x2, having the right eye (as viewed) in the top left of the RHS middle square, but that just me
I also wonder if the whites could just do with a little more in Levels ie 240, but selectively applied. However I'm away, so just a thought. Nice to see something different.
TFS
Steve
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Hi Morkel...I love it! The stare is very penetrating and I think the use of the B&W has only improved this aspect of the image. Very nice capture!
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This is one of those images Morkel that will impress experienced photogs and will wow the non photogs and entry level amateurs. This has enlarged print in a gallery written all over it.
Good work 
Jamie
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Thank you very much for the kind comments everyone.
I know many would like this with a more "ROT" placement of the leopard, and it works, just wanted the leopard centred for my own tastes.
Steve - will punch up those whites some more
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I like the secrecy you capture, I think it speaks for the nature of the animal. I can see it in a coffee table book
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Hi Mork, this is brilliant. Great conversion, and the leopard pops so well through the foliage. I like this lots.
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Thanks a lot Dumay and Stu for your comments...