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    Taken on a recent trip to the Kalahari . This trip I concentrated on trying to capture subjects in their environments .

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    Cropped to sq format. minor adj in levels,saturation,sh/hl and smart sharpening.

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    Hi Peter,
    I'd say you certainly captured a little environment in this one :). Ideally, I would've preferred more of a pano crop but given the leopard's postion I see that wasn't possible. Still, I might crop a bit off the top to the tip off the middle tree. I like this one as presented though.
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    Ah, a great shot Peter, and so typical of the Kalahari. I think this would improve if the leopard was more to the left. Since you have already done some cropping is there anything left on the right of the image to achieve this? Did you manage to shoot this from any other angle? Steve's first comment made me laugh (see above) but I do love images that show the environment.

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    Loved this image showing the leopard in its habitat. Agree on placing the leopard more towards left - i.e. providing some space on right side (if there's any left).

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    Peter I've has another look at your image and feel it needs more contast. Here is a repost with a different cropping and some added contrast. Hope you don't mind. . . .

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    I like what David did with this image Peter.

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    For a moment, I thought, Ohh My God ! The full frame of the D3 reduces the Leopard to such a tiny speck? :-)

    I agree with David's repost.

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    Hi Peter, I like the atmosphere of your leopardscape, it just breathes Kgalagadi! I do like the extra contrast David added, but do believe that a 2:3 ratio presentation or even a bit of a pano crop may be better than a square presentation.

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    Sure reminds me of my trip there but I never found a leopard. For me the leopard is a bit to small in the frame. It's hare to recognize what your viewing . The landscape has a bit to much uninteresting FG.

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    I have had to wait a few days to see anything but a thumbnail of this, I like it a lot it shouts Africa!

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