Hello Marc,
I was barely catching my breath as I went through those images...Brought back some memories too:)
Amazing how the victim (gazelle) stretches out its body to the limit, and flies over the vegetation to try and avoid being caught. What a sighting! Well done Marc!
I had a similar experience some years ago at Mata Mata in the Kalahari, unfortunately we were not able to manoeuvre the vehicle in a better position to get better images because of other "spectators" present. A well known cheetah mom by the name of Eleanor was about to feed her cubs and we found her stalking through tall grass, she then came within a metre to our vehicle and dashed like an arrow behind it into the river bed, in pursuit of springbok. I thought I was so clever, had two lenses/cameras ready and at first took some frames with the cheetah approaching, oh and she got so close until I could focus no more...Then quickly dropped the 300 F2.8 and picked up my borrowed 200 lying on the other car seat... Suddenly the cheetah decided to run in the opposite direction and towards a big tree, leaped into the shade (there goes my shutter speed, LOL)... all **** broke loose as everyone was trying to get a glimpse of the action, cars were moving but we decided to just stay put and watch... I will never share those images, the light was harsh and I blew the HL big time...but I still treasure one particular frame with Eleanor behind some foliage, her body blurred with motion, springbok ahead gasping for breath in its leap to freedom. Eleanor had a collar on so I did not so any PP work on those images, only sent them to the guys who did research on the species...
Wonderful sequence Marc, you are so fortunate to witness and capture this! My favourite frame? Hard to tell, I like them all, number 4 grabs me most:)
Thank you so much for sharing, much appreciate it
Kind regards,