Jaguar Yawning


Posted by Nate Chappell on Sun Aug 30, 2015 3:28 pm

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Hi everyone, I have just returned from leading a 3 week tour to the Pantanal and Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil.  It was a very rich trip for photography of mammals as well as birds.  We photographed Jaguars on 5 different days.  This is how we often found them earlier in the day before they started hunting, resting by the riverbank partially obscured.  I have plenty of clean shots of them but I liked the side on pose here.  The decision of how to crop wasn't easy, if I cropped more closely to get rid of all of the out of focus vegetation it felt "cut off" but if I included the whole body the remaining vegetation was more distracting so this is what I settled on. 

Canon 5D3 500F4 1/320 F4, iso 1600, taken handheld from boat
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by Robert Sabin on Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:01 am
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Love those Teeth...Sharp as could be...
 

by john on Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:32 am
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I like the crossed paws and relaxed yawn! Bummer about those oof reeds, but that's photography.
 

by Cindy Marple on Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:07 pm
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Wonderful huge yawn showing off those fangs (hard to call them teeth!). I like your choice of crop here, for me it is effective as your attention goes right to the mouth. More of the body would have diminished that, I think.
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by Ed Cordes on Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:52 pm
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I like it as is. The OOF reeds show the true environment. The yawn and the "fangs" are super!
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