Just a quick post from Nairobi while waiting fro a flight home tonight.
Image taken at Ndutu, Serengeti which is a strong hold for cheetah. Over the 4 days, we saw 5 females with 17 cubs, 1 pregnant female, 1 male.
This is a female with 4 cubs. We saw her killed a gazelle the evening before, stayed with her as long as we could well after sunset allowing her and her cubs to feed without the pesky hyenas coming to steal their food. We found her at first light on the day we needed to fly out. She was restless due to the presence of lions in the distance, but the cubs were oblivious to danger. The cubs were stuffed and full of energy. The chased one another around and tried to entice her to play. In this image, a cub jumped up, put her front legs around the Mother's neck, and planted a kiss on her face.
We chose to stay back a bit because the Mother was restless, didn't want to put more pressure on her.
1DX II
500f4 II + 1.4X III
1/4000
f5.6
ISO-1600
Av +2/3EV
Bean bag from safari car
Processed in DPP4, reduced brightness by 1/3EV
Cropped a sliver on top and right. No more room on left (I clipped the tail on some images, which was too abd)
More soon.
Thank you for commenting on my images.
Loi







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