Locked down!

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Two Lechwe spar at OD, Botswana & one locks down the other to the ground! SO thought I'd share this 'moment' with you all. The light was sweet and I got some nice eye contact. Had posted another frame from this sequence earlier where heads were above ground.
7D II
100-400 II (400mm)
1/1250
f/8
ISO 800

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Sanjeev this is a very lovely frame , love the golden light .
Nice subjects , a overall very well processed tone and color palette . Super detail and sharpness .
Nice job , Sanjeev .
So where is the imperfection ???

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Thanks Andreas, you are right, the theme prefix can be removed here. Cheers!

[keith mitchell]

Does not look like there is any malice in this tussle Sanjeev just a friendly push,all looks very well photographed to me, very nice work.

Keith.

[Rachel Hollander]

Sanjeev - One of your best wildlife images for me. Techs and pp both look great. Only thing I might do is crop a very small sliver from the top to give the top a cleaner edge rather than the darker bits coming in ulc. Btw I removed the theme prefix.

TFS,
Rachel

[Morkel Erasmus]

Just a solid image of lechwe testing strength - lovely light.
How about a very slight crop from the top to remove that dark section top left?

[Marc Mol]

Superb colour & lighting here Sanjeev, loving the classic duelling pose as well, agree on just cropping out a sliver off the top.

TFS

[Andre Pretorius]

Hi Sanjeev

Love the natural flow of reds going to yellow to white on their coats...
The catch light in eyes add, so does the bit of water in front.
Agree with a bit off on top.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Very nice work Sanjeev:)

Love the moment/confrontation you captured, but especially those lively eyes and golden horns of the two protagonists:)

Nice detail, colours, as well as BG

Just curious, did you remove a tad of magenta in the FG/ edge of the water?
Very well captured, nice techs, super PP work - this works for me on all counts, thank you so much for sharing

Kind regards,

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Thanks Gabriela, I did remove magenta a tad? Why do you ask? And how did you guess? Cheers to Sharp eyes

[haseeb badar]

Hi Sanjeev -- Lovely image with excellent IQ , loved the scene and light . very well captured . TFS !