Young Cheetah

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Deception Valley, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

Canon EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS hand-held

F6.3, 1/2000, ISO 800, EV+1/3rd

[Stu Bowie]

Comp works well, and great eye contact in this, with the honey eyes. Great sighting Ken.

[david cramer]

Light looks hard, but otherwise a nice image. The face and eyes are certainly the draw, and nice and sharp!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
Sharp and lovely. Nice eye contact. It would have been great without the shadow on the eyes. Look forward to more.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Ed Cordes]

Looks as if it is afraid of you! As was stated nice eye contact and good detail.

[Steve Canuel]

Nice image. Nice creamy BG with the FG grasses adding some nice detail. Great look on the cat's face, looks like he got caught doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for the kind comments, this Cheetah cub was with its Mum and one other and was staring downhill at a Lion and two lionesses. That hopefully was what they were afraid of.

[Grady Weed]

Those eyes make this one. Kinda sad eyes. Maybe he is thinking, "Man its hot. Got some cold water"?

I like this one. A little tight on the left bottom side. Looks like you did well with the harsh light. I could live with the half closed or shadowed eye. For an image like this, its a keeper.