Lince

GR8 PIC

Great capture. Very good DOF treatment. The diagonal works well. I wish the rear paw wasnt cut off

Marina, what i really like about this photograph is the fact that the cat poses in a very "human" way. i think i've seen this pose hundreds of times done by beautiful girls, but not once done by an animal. it is probably my screen, but i see this in a slight magenta hue. doesn't matter though.

Thanks again to photo.net, for chosen this picture, Photo of the Week. I feel happy!

 

Thanks to all the people who are taken a look at my pictures, rate it, like or dislike, and did comment.

 

Florian, I never thought in this lynx, like a pose of a beautiful girl. It's a fantastic way to see it. Thanks.

I was concentrate in the face, in his eyes. So I forgot the frame at the bottom.

Thanks Randy, Ray, Mark, Jim, Ken, Dimitris, Florian...

 

This is a boreal lynx, and I took this picture in Cabarceno, an area of more than 750 hectares and is the largest park of its kind in Europe. It is a large open area where animals from all over the world live in semi-liberty.

In Spain lives Lynx pardinus (iberian lynx) and it is, unfortunately, a threatened species. Animals are also ranked by their level of vulnerability on a global level, which in essence ranks their extinction risk. They are ranked from Category 1 (critical) to Category 5 (common-low conservation priority). The Iberian Lynx is the ONLY cat listed as Category 1, with less than 1200 animals remaining in the wild. Of that 1200, only 300-350 are believed to be breeding females. (Information from the IUCN Wild Cats Book)

 

I hope that my photographs about them, be useful to love these beautiful animals.

I love it; it's an amazing capture. Great moment, great everything! The only problem is that toe that has been cropped off on the hind foot. It's not a huge deal, but it reminds me of something I would do (cutting the toe off, I mean. I'm not comparing it's awesomeness with anything that i have ever done) :)

A really magic moment ! 7/7. Bravo.

Very beautiful shot of the Lynx. You can see a strong personality and profound look that stops somewhere in the distance.

Very very nice picture, I like the composition, but did you capture this in the wild? The animal looked too groomed.

Nice picture....but was there something wrong with the cat's left toe that you didn't want to include it?

Everyone is commenting about the toe, because it really does come close to ruining an otherwise exceptional photo. A little crop off the right side, not only helps with keeping your eye off the foot, it also balances the entire picture. I fixed the toe in just a couple of minutes, but if it were mine, I would have taken one of the 2 or 3 dozen pictures I snapped while he was standing there and used the bottom of one where the foot is visible and overlaid this one so that there was just a tad more room at the bottom. Removing the blades of grass from around the foot also helps keep your eye off it. I thought the blades of grass you were shooting through also should have been removed, most notably the one covering the cat's front right leg. At first I wasn't sure what it was....just a partial green leg. It really is a great shot. Just one where a little more post-processing should have been done.

Like all of your wildlife photos, Marina, this one really brings out the personality of the animal. I like the intense eyes, the diagonals, the bokeh. I have to say that I like Scott's crop, with the hindleg coming right out of the corner. It seems to emphasize the tension - a stronger diagonal. Congrats also on your Popular Photo article. Your advice on developing a concise style really got my attention.

I liked the cropped version. The firmness and tension is more expressed. Now the cat's standing or a pose is somehow more "solid" and the compositional frame alone is more proper too. The cat's body forms the triangle emulating the alone triangle shape of the rock. The composition also simulate the Fibonacci's golden spiral. Well, this is how it is in a nature. Everything has its own geometry - beauty and the maths.

crop or no crop, it's the expression of the cat that really grabs my attention. I can imagine taking thousands of pictures of this same animal (if it wasn't so elusive, and would pose for me) and never get a pose this dramatic. The detail in the face, and the direction of the animal relative to the camera just screams suspense. It is as if the lynx is asserting it's dominance and ready to attack (once again, if they weren't so elusive!)

 

It is truly an amazing capture. So much so that at first glance one would think it to be a fake to be such an example of perfection in wildlife shooting. The chosen depth of field is perfect, the colors are very crisp, and the cat itself is captured in wonderful detail and a truly once in a lifetime, perfect natural pose.

 

In my personal opinion, from the many wildlife shots i've seen, this is potentially the best of them all.

Any big cats are a very, very cool subject.

 

The first thing I noticed was the very humanesque expression.

 

Great shot!

You have done a great job of capturing the action and the clarity is amazing - WELL DONE

This is definately a 7/7 shot. Great pose, lighting, focus -- all the elements came together.

Marina;

 

I love the shot, tells a different story for all of us that view it. Isn't that why we take photos? Great shot !!!

 

Rob :)

Fantastic work about the missing toe Scott, John. Thanks!

beautiful. I really feel like I am there...it kinda makes you wanna turn around and run before (s)he pounces. :-)

 

amazing.

Hello Marina Cano this is a very wonderful capture with exelent posture nice work :))))))))))

greetings from jose

beautiful!

 

where did you take it? whith what?

 

:)

A keen, vigilant,agile, watchfull eye on prey in the distant tumult.

Right on the mark!

Absolutely fabulous. Stunning. Thank you!

Dear Marina

I am newcomer to the site just few days

I have seen your photo lince and it provoke a small story in my mind you deserve to know

about ten days ago i have seen a documentary on NAT GEO channel titled as I recall the

last lince of Spain. it tells about the efforts being taken to preserve this animal from being

extinct by the help of EU and UN with the help of local government.

If this animal (God forbids) goes extinct your photo will stand to the coming generations as a witness for the magnificent

creation of God and the horrible cruelty of human.

not so far away (in thirties of the last century) the wolf of Tasmania goes extinct with less than rare photos

God bless you.

 

 

Loving cats makes me love this photo even more but also sad when I think of the danger these beautiful animals are in. I can only hope they will never dissapear.