Leopards of the Okavango

Two females and a young male along one channel, followed from a boat in the short rains.

Savanna

Leopards 01
Leopards 02 Leopard on log · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000
Leopards 03 Leopard on mound · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/500 · ISO 2000
Leopards 04 Leopard dappled light · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1000 · ISO 5000
Leopards 05 Two leopards rocks · 500mm · f/4 · 1/400 · ISO 1250
Leopards 06 Leopard close · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 · ISO 3200
Leopards 07 Leopard sunlit forest · 600mm · f/4 · 1/320 · ISO 2500
Leopards 08 Leopard on tree · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1600 · ISO 6400
Leopards 09 Leopard climbing at sunset · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/640 · ISO 1600

The Okavango leopards hunt along the water at dusk and rest in the sausage trees through the heat. I follow them from a flat boat with a long lens on a beanbag and no engine, which is slower and quieter and gets me close enough to count whiskers.