The sharpening of claws on a tree is generally a sign that a hunt is on the cards, and on this night the Nsefu pride were indeed successful with a takedown of a puku on the river bed below.
It was great to see although too far and way too dark to capture any frames, just great to put the lens down and saviour the encounter through binos.
On this recent trip lions were scarce as they were further inland chasing buffalo and hence that gave more room for leopards to appear,
so much so that on 13 out of 13 1/2 drives I did @ Tafika alone, we sighted leopards on 26 occasions and not too many repeat encounters either.
I'm licking my lips on a return 3 week trip come OCT.
South Luangwa NP- Zambia
D3s 70-200 f/2.8VRII 1/60s f/2.8 ISO1600@ 200mm. Reduced EV-2.3, HH from vehicle, spot lit only. Reduced exp further on BG in PS CC with levels, curves & ACR.
Hi Marc - a nice behavioral image that we don't often see depicted. Sharpness looks good despite the slow ss. If it were mine I would crop to a more traditional 3:2 ratio taking some off the left so that the left edge is all tree trunk.
Hi Marc , very nice use of the title .
If this was taken in daylight , i would simply love it , as it stands .
But this is night shot , so i personally do not like night shots........ !!
Agree about crop suggestion by Rachel .
Love seeing this behaviour, and the sharpness looks good given the techs and light source Marc.
I agree with Rachel's crop suggestion, and might also take some off the top?
This is one of those images I would really, really love to have in my collection. The light is just enough to put emphasis on the lioness, I like the vertical dimension here and if this were mine I might even try to crop a tad from the left. I see everyone has a different suggestion here in terms of crop... sorry Marc - I have not tried yet what I have suggested, not sure it is the best thing to do, only used a book to cover the screen on the LHS to see what the image would look like in a narrower format. I do love it as is anyway, what is important to me is that you have a great behavioural shot against this lovely dark BG and no distractions whatsoever - this is really lovely, I can imagine the silent night and your joy at seeing this and being able to capture it
Prayers before dinner.
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