Panning with Wild Cat

Very impressive at 1/15 sec.  Very cool shot really portrays the motion.

A powerful dynamic shot. Your panning is spot on. Well seen and executed, best wishes William

amazing panning... very good

Stunning image.................

Regards

Very impressive image.  The apparent motion is nicely done while keeping the head and open mouth just right. 

Absolutely stunning, powerful and swift is what comes to mind.  Well done! Conceived and Executed!

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The motion blur gives a sense of very energetic and aggressive run. The only sharp part of the image, the raging eye and open mouth, draw and hold attention. Both together bring out the ferocious character of the wild animal. An excellent capture of the animal’s character.

This is a fantastic photograph. Everything about it, from the blurring motion, to the clarity of the menacing face, the muted color so as not to distract from the subject, the direction from left to right, and the composition that allows "space" on the right side for the animal to keep moving... I can't think of a way to improve it (although I'm confident that others will!). Congratulations, Ron, on a wonderful image, and being selected as POW.

Well done and, alas, is typical in how it solves the main problem in animal photography: getting an image where the subject is actually doing something besides just standing there or just sleeping.

even the sharpest elements are probably not really sharp (especially in big size), but in this case i think this is not that important to spoil the overall impact. it captures indeed the character of the wild animal, the composition is good, and the motion blur gives an impressive dynamic effect to the image. an excellent photo, no doubt.

I really think that this is a spectacular solution to the "the main problem in animal photography".

BRAVO

Spectacular yes. It is what we expect to see as viewers.

Oh wait. This is a house cat?

Charles, have a look at this photo in a new tab and switch between them:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8522203

Great image, the composition, the blurring motion, the sense of speed, and the whole face expression. But I don't know... to me it looks more like a pencil drawing than a photo - not a bad thing. Maybe because of the editing. But what a great image!

There is is very little editing.The streaks are made by panning.thats why they look very crude.
I must add, this teqnique has so many shots that fail.
In will upload another shot that did not work so well.
Regards Ron

Ron, thanks for chiming in. I was having some doubts about the relative sharpness of the head versus the body versus the rest of the photo -- they all seemed to be at different speeds. In this day of digital editing, everything is suspect (at least it is with some of my best photos and the general public -- I'm very frequently asked, "Is it real?"). I can appreciate the low success rate, but this is the exception. It's the epitome of speed and action. Great photo work.

The fact is that this is a real action moment and the sense of this is for sure caught in this image,is not easy to do it.The head is more clear than rest of the body indeed,but I think that what this animal is able to do with his muscles,powerful and in few seconds fraction,is possible that at 1/15s you had the body motion to be caught so as it is here,just my idea.I like the result and I say again that what I like here is what I felt from the first moment the action and powerful of this cat.

Great shot. Very animated and a very good panning job. It's much more interesting than static animal photos. I like the streaks as they are. The image is more or less a throwback to past times wherein not everything was post processed digitally. Very refreshing

I like the feeling of motion of nearly the whole ,aside from the 'screaming' head ,which is in focus. Does not have to be panning, but a precise timing, and as Ken said, really refreshing, Ron!!

Congrats Ron on POTW!
It is a very interesting photograph because of your panning skills in this instance.
And, it's true that it is refreshing to view something that does not hold ones attention because of ones post processing skills!