Nikon D3, 200-400mm f/4 VR, 1/160 @ f/4, ISO 6400
Mombo Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana. July 2009
If you have seen Eye of the Leopard you are certainly familiar with Legadema. She is as cool as cool gets when in front of a camera. Nothing fazes here at all. We enjoyed tracking her on a daily basis last July, and we would just sit and watch one of my favorite subjects in all of Africa. Not only are leopards my favorite big cat to photograph, this specific one has stolen my heart as well.
On this afternoon we watched her well after sunset, and I had to jack up the ISO to 6400 and shoot wide open at f/4 to get it just right. To me big cats are all about eye contact and their tail movement, and I have many images in this sequence of her tail in a blurry mess. 1/160 of a second wasn't enough to freeze the action, but on this one specific movement she kept her tail up in the air for a splinter of a second for us to photograph her.








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