Leopard/Kabini

[Praveen Siddannavar]

This male leopard was on a evening stroll at Nagarahole forest, we were following him from a distance and noticed that he was marking his territory by scraping the surface on the man made track. I had two opportunities to capture this behavior, I missed one as our jeep was moving and finally managed this one. This leopard wasn't aware nor did we that he is directly heading into an area where there was another male leopard sitting on the rock.

Camera - Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon f4 500mm lens
EXIF - ISO 800 Av 4 Tv 1/200 sec, EC -0.3, cropped
Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Kabini
Nov'12

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice photograph.
But I liked your previous one posted on 27.11.2012 more.Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice scene.

TFS
Roopak

[Suraj Sreedhar]

Nice that u got him while facing towards you.................nice image
TFS

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image Praveen. The curved path looks very nice. Ofcourse so does the leopard, nice eye contact. Seems it was far off. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice sighting. I too feel that the previous image was better. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi