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    Love the pose and framing here on this male Dicky. Is this FF? Might be tempted to crop a bit to take out some of the top leaves.
    I do find your sig somewhat distracting however. A fine capture nonetheless.
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    This is Full Frame. The top is distracting but I rarely crop my images and always mention that in the Image Title when I do that. I know that the sig is really distracting. Smugmug does it automatically with the settings that I use. I have had far too many copyright disasters and have recently started marking all pictures very heavily. Unfortunately India is the land of "copy left" - we have leading national newspapers and magazines just lifting off the images from website and publishing them while giving credit to their own staff photographers.

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    Hey Dicky, good to see you posting again.

    I like this as it's a different take on this well photographed animal. The branch is a great platform/lookout for the Leopard well seen, but it's weight and comp that works for me. Although I know you don't like to crop, but I might consider just cropping a sliver off the top removing the small curved branch coming in from the top of the image, just gives the image a cleaner edge I think? Am away again so sadly cannot comment on colour, however if you can post at 800px high it would give your image better presence and the viewer can appreciate it more.

    Was this taken with Andy, or is the location just a coincidence. Fully understand the reasons for the placement of the © symbol.

    Will lookout from more from you, BTW finally got to see Broken Tail, great memories Dicky.

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    Cool looking capture of this Leopard, Dicky. Great eye contact, and like how the branches frame it. Vertical works well, and good suggestions for cropping above.

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    Thanks for the suggestions. Broken Tail was an amazing film. We had great fun while filming.

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    Certainly is Dicky, good to see you had a part in it and no doubt a huge role 'behind the scenes' too. Just a very sad end, but an amazing story of an amazing Tiger. Keep up the good work in the conservation of this beautiful animal.

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