Cheetah

This picture is from 2003 when I was on a safari in Masai Mara, Kenya.

At that time I had no digital camera, so this is a scanned version. I took

it from the top of a land cruiser, and I found myself just 20 meters from

the cheetah. The animals do not care about cars, but go out of your car

and you are in serious trouble. The situation is not pleasant for the

gazelle, but that's the way life is among the wild animals. Some eat and

some are eaten.

Life without makeup,cruel ,but true and real .

Good job done.

A real peak moment capture. Good scan too. 

Thank you so much Saad and Jim.

A very nicely composed beautiful result, Eystein!

Life so as it is from thousands of years,may cruel for some of us but selection is done.This photo is more than this especially for you who were there and felt with emotion this moment I think.

all my best radu

Ruud and Radu, thank you.

Viewed large,this is even more impressive.But a brief moment of the brutal reality of life in the wild which you have captured here;perfect timing and nicely composed image.Bravo!Is this a scan of the print or of the negative....whichever,a good one.

Meilleures salutations-Laurent

Thank you Laurent. This is a scan of a print glued into a photo album.

Regards Eystein

Hi Eystein,

  Wonderful image that shows life in the wild.  Take care, Patsy

Thank you Patsy

Great capture, for you and for it!

Eystein,

Very good light and distinct details!

Sad possibly, . . . but, "Nature doing as Nature does!"

Cheers!

Jim j.

Maurizio and James, thank you.

Very Good. I was there some 30 years ago attempting to get images with my pre-digital Nikon FM2. I have to look for those slides but I don't remember getting many 'note-worthy' images for all kinds of novice reasons. One example was a 500mm f8 (fixed aperture) Nikkor mirror lens with 50 ISO film trying to shoot animals at low-light sunrise.   

Thank you, Tony. I took this one in 2003, and I used Canon EOS 300, and as far as I can recall I used a 70 - 300 mm lens with IS. I still use the lens, but it is not high class, but it works ok even with a digital camera. I better stop at 200 mm though.

This is really "wild" !!! Technically I find it excellent, but not only ... We may see also the last look of the deer, it seems to accept her cruel destiny ... The cheetah "embrace" the deer, in a surviving deadly game ....

The photo is telling the whole story !! Great, great, great !

Theodor Dinulescu

Thank you so much, Theodor.