Comments on: Baby leopards in den at Zarafa camp

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:53:36 +0000

Hi James, Thanks for sharing this wonderful sighting. I enjoyed it tremendously – much more than looking at a calendar and think the comments made by Marius is unnecessary.

By: Zelda Connock

Zelda Connock — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:12:50 +0000

Thanks for sharing your beautiful photo’s – quite a few ahhh moments from my daughters and I. Glory to God for His amazing creatures!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:53:53 +0000

Extraordinary sequence of shots of such a secret sacred time. Well done!

By: Lee Whittam

Lee Whittam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:32:39 +0000

Hi James , thanks for the update I will be up there in the near future and hope to catch a glimps of the cubs…

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Thanks all for the comments -

The shooting for this sighting was under extremely “contrasty” light – around 2:45pm and bright sunshine outside… inside the den was of course in deep shadow.

On top of the difficult lighting, there were lots of hanging roots blocking clean views inside the den, so I am pleased to have been able to get the few clear images I ended up with!

I added technical metadata for each image in the image captions above … the D3′s high-ISO capability certainly helped me out on many of these images.

By: Marius

Marius — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:38:56 +0000

Too narrow depth of field in top photo, bottom 7 photo’s needs more sharpness and higher contrast (dynamic range), they appear a little dull. Nice reference shots but not calendar quality.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:03:11 +0000

Wonderful pics and I can only imagine how cool of an experience that was to see the cubs with their mother so close.

I am traveling to Zarafa and Abu Camp in July/Aug – any tips or advise you could share would be greatly appreciated !
Nicole
PS- fantastic website – I find your info both current and very helpful in my safari planning.

By: José Antonio Zechin

José Antonio Zechin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:22:30 +0000

Mother’s Nature is fantastic!

Mankind should learn on this.

My congratulations for so rare moment and so much respect for the animals!