Wildlife Image of the Week Grant Atkinson for week ending Sept. 23rd, 2011 - Defiant Leopard

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Grant!!!

Canon 1Dmk4, Canon 300 f2.8IS, handheld. 1/3200s at f5.0, iso 250. Cropped, and processed in ACR 6 and CS5. Image taken at Chitabe camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana on a recent photosafari. This young leopard was trapped in a tree by a pack of African wild dogs for a while. I took this shot as she was snarling her defiance toward the dogs below. The image was taken in the later part of the morning, and light was quite bright. I shot fast shutter speeds as there was no way to predict when things might happen quickly and I wanted to have enough shutter speed to capture any action.
Cheers
Grant

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations Grant!!!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Congrats Grant!!!

[Steve Kaluski]

Two awesome Leopard images in two weeks, brilliant. Congratulations Grant well done.

[Grant Atkinson]

Thank you very much Daniel, Harshad, Steve and Roman. I have just finished up three hectic weeks of guiding, and should have a couple of days to catch up with the forum...sorry to have been away for so long. This is a wonderful surprize to get upon returning..
Thanks again
cheers
Grant

[Morkel Erasmus]

Congrats on this one Grant!!

[Pieter de Waal]

Congratulations Grant, have'nt been on the forum much recently, -really bogged down at work - but I do remember how much I liked this image.