A tiger plays with a ball of grass and then sniffs at it after playing some football with his paw. Went vertical here to make a diagonal of the head and grass ball. Did some adjustments based on Andreas suggestions. Zero input sharpening and then sharpened in PS using USM. NR only to background. I always reduce NR not on subject but only BG. Selective sharpening of subject.
1DX II
500mm II
1/500
f/5.6
ISO 10,000