Wildlife Image of the Week for the week ending January 4th, 2013: Rachel Hollander - Leopard

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Rachel!

I thought I would end the year with another image of the mother leopard from the Timbavati Game Reserve in South Africa as she and her cub were my favorite subjects I encountered this year. I will post both the color version and a b&w conversion I did. I can't really decide which I prefer.

Canon 5D3
70-200 II @ 200mm
1/640
f4
ISO 400
EC +.67
HH from a safari vehicle, slight crop from left for comp, levels, curves, selective color adjustments, sharpened and a slight bit of pruning in CS6.

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy 2013 with lots of photographic opportunities!

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

I think you should now be known as the 'Queen of Leopards' with all these shots, Nice work, congrats.

[Rachel Hollander]

I think I prefer "Leopard Queen" . Thanks and very honored.

Rachel

[Morkel Erasmus]

Well done, Leopard Queen!