Leopard takes a jackel pup.

[Marc Mol]

An alarm call by a pair of Black-backed Jackals led us to this young male leopard that had just killed one of it's older pups.

Quite a rare sighting, a mature male lion had just arrived on the scene forcing the leopard to quickly snatch the jackal and attempt to secure his prize higher up the sausage tree, a special treat indeed.

Ruaha Nat Park- Tanzania.

H/H from front pax seat, cropped to 4;5 pano, curves, levels, TK adj's in ACR & PS CC

Nikon D5
Nikkor 400 f/2.8E FL VR
1/1000s
f/5
ISO 1100

Best wishes to all for the festive season and continued wonderful sightings throughout 2017!


Cheers

Marc

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Marc - What a great sighting and dramatic image! Excellent sharpness and clarity. I would prefer just a sliver more below if you have it. If it were mine I might dial back the sky coming through in the bg. One I would love to have seen and captured.

Wishing you a great holiday season and 2017 too!

TFS,
Rachel

[haseeb badar]

Hi Marc -- Merry christmas !

What a fantastic sighting this is and what a quality image it has turned out . Love those eyes of the leopard . the blue blotches of sky in the Bg are not ideal from my point of view and i too would have loved some more space at the bottom . But overall this is a great sighting and TFS !

[Gabriela Plesea]

Fantastic sighting Marc,

Well processed and composed frame with great dramatic content. I like this as presented, many thanks for providing the story behind the image.

Hope you have a great festive season, and may the New Year bring you and your dear ones lots of happy moments

Kind regards,

[Basil Dardagan]

CRACKING sighting and top class IQ for some challenging elements !!!

[keith mitchell]

Marc to my mind this is faultless ,the qaulity is spot on,it's almost like the Leopard is displaying it's kill,wonderful work.

Keith.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Marc well this is a cracking image .Well done you lucky guy
Overall i might reduce the Sat a touch and if you have .... more room on top and bottom and crop out RHS .
Just my thoughts
Very nice work .. TFS Andreas

[Morkel Erasmus]

You did so well here - what a cracking sighting and capture!
I think it's perfectly framed for the tight frame here, removing all distracting elements around.
Agree with Rachel - might just drop blue/cyan saturation by 5-10 points for the sky?

[Loi Nguyen]

Great sighting and you nailed it. Love the dapple golden light. Agreed with Morkel and Rachel regrading dropping the cyan on the sky. Superb! Loi