Tag: Leopard
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Living on the Wild Side: The Life of a Leopard
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500mm 1/160 f5.6 iso 400 When it comes to the Big Five, the Leopard (Panthera pardus) is among the most difficult to photograph. In fact, my first digital capture was back in 2007 when I came across a unique encounter with two lions at the base of a tree, eagerly watching a leopard way up…
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Two Lions, One Leopard
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Over the last 30 years I’ve been lucky enough to see many amazing things while on safari. Lion kills, cheetah kills, various animal interactions. This encounter featuring two lions and one leopard has to be one of the most unique. While leading a group in 2007 we were heading back to camp and came across…
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Wildlife at 20,000 ISO!
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25,600 iso 60mm D700 Chip size and pixel size My favorite Nikon body for shooting low light images is the D700. It’s a full frame low mega pixel camera which means that the pixels it contains have a large surface area that can gather lots of light. The shortfall is that the camera is a…