On the move

This was a young female we found very early after leaving camp, around 6.30am and even then the light was strong. She was on the move, we thought on a hunt, until a small cub was sighted some meters behind, perhaps around 3-4 months old. It may have been that she was just moving the cub to a new spot, although we hoped it was to a kill, but soon both disappeared into thick bush and we did not wish to stress the cub out, so we left them to it.

Steve

Subject: Young female Leopard (Panthera pardus) with cub
Location: Botswana
Camera: Canon 1DX MKI
Lens: 500f/4 MKII with 1.4MKIII HH
Exposure: 1/1250s at f/5.6 ISO160
Original format: Landscape, slight crop from top, almost FF width
Processed via: LRCC & PSCC2017