Cheetah

[Ken Watkins]

Another from my trawl (tidy up) of old images.

One of the 3 Cheetah brother coalition made infamous by the "mockumentary" Blood Brothers.

Taken in the Kwando concession, Northern Botswana 7th October 2004

EOS 1D MkII

100-400 at 400

F9, ISO 400, 1/200

[Harshad Barve]

super pose and light here Ken , little tight compo works very well for me
TFS

[Marc Mol]

A fine looking male here Ken, like the look back pose.
Do you know if the remaining two are still around?
TFS

[DanWalters]

Beautiful pose and color. Kind of like what is going on in the background. Really adds to the image.

[Ken Watkins]

Marc,

We saw the last remaing brother in June 2009, he was looking very old. They gave us and many more people a wonderful experience, we were privileged to see them on many occasions.

There is a new 3 Male coalition in the Lagoon area, but I have not been there for some time.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I agree, great look back pose, and the sky is pleasant. Great to capture him using the tree as a vantage point.

TFS,
Rachel

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely clarity, pose and depth here Ken...I would have liked a tad more space below and less on top, wondering if shaving a wee bit off the top would balance the compo a bit more?

[Robert Amoruso]

I agree with Morkel, I like the stump - lots of nice detail in it the goes well with the cat. More of the and less sky to reduce prominence of tree would be good IMO.

Good light and beautiful subject.

[Ken Watkins]

Morkel and Robert,

I'll be totally honest and say that back then I had little if any real compositional ideas, just as big as possible, I would probably take something completely now. Unfortunately I have no more at the bottom.