Civet Cat

[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
Made this image with D300, 600mm ISO 200 , 1/500 secs, F5.6
Absolute rare to get them in day light & I was lucky
all C & C are welcome & much appreciated
Harshad

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the airborne pose and light and would apply some CW rotation. It might also work as pano crop.

[Harshad Barve]

Axel , here is repost , How it looks now

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Unless it was running downhill, it still needs some CW rotation. :)

[Harshad Barve]

She was running down hills :)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Harshad,
I like the pose and exposure on this unusual subject. I did try more of a pano crop with less off the bottom....but more off the top. I did also try Axels recommendation and rotated 1 degree CW first(I did try 2 but was too close to the tail) Pano crops are not to everyones tastes.....but figured I'd show an alternative to the original presentation. I did patch out the brighter rock in front of the cat. Let me know what you think.

[Harshad Barve]

Hi Roman
I must admit I am fan of 2 x 3 crops
But what you have done is simply superb ,
Thanks a ton for repost
Harshad

[John Ippolito]

Harshad, this is a pretty special image! I have only watched them at night with a light. Exposure, action and detail is very nice. I like Roman's crop. Thanks for sharing.

[Subharghya]

Harshad you got a rare trophy here buddy .. these are so shy here in Mysore that shooting them even in night with flash is a Gr8 achievement and you have got it in such Awesome Light !! I wish this was mine :D .. BTW I like this without rotation as I can understand that it was running downhill

[Mital Patel]

am novice in mammals and dont know what this animal is but from the description by you and das i can understand what situation you passed through and took this shot.

awesome image man.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thats a great catch harshad Bhai.. the second repost works best for me.. congrats on a fine image..

[Ken Watkins]

I am with John on this ,a most unusual sighting of this nocturnal animal, I prefer the original post.

This does not seem to have many spots do you know if it is a juvenile?

[Harshad Barve]

For me , this is semi adult (?)

[Ed Cordes]

Great image of an unusual species. You did a good of preserving detail in the fur and catching the action. I like the original with the slight CW rotation.

[David Fletcher]

Wonderful shot Harshad. Believe this is the first I've seen posted. VWD!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Roman's repost is great. I can hear your elation from Australia Harshad Bhai. This is an incredible moment! TFS. :)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Harshad,
This is a rare catch. Where was it?

Cheers,
Sabysachi

[Steve Canuel]

Great pose. Congrats on the capture.

[Mitchell Krog]

I like the pano crop, great sighting not something that is seen all that often and refreshing to see it here online. I only ever saw a Civet once in the daylight but that was almost 18 years ago and I was not into photography those days. Nice catch !!!