Wildlife Image of the Week for the week ending September 21st, 2012: Rachel Hollander - Topsy Turvy Leopard

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Rachel!

Another one of the 8 month old male cub taken in the Timbavati Game Reserve in South Africa. When I posted the other image of him hanging upside down with his impala dinner some suggested a crop to vertical. It wouldn't work with that image but I was able to crop another image from the sequence to vertical and this one has the added element of his tongue out.

Canon 5D3
70-200 II @ 75mm
1/640
f7.1
ISO 800
EC +.67
HH from a safari vehicle, cropped to portrait from landscape, luminosity mask, levels, s/h, curves, selective color adjustments, sharpened in CS5.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

A unique, and IMHO, outstanding image of a subject well documented in the Wildlife section.

[Marina Scarr]

Huge congrats on this one, Rachel. This image has so many amazing elements!!!

[Morkel Erasmus]

Well deserved, Rachel - congrats!!