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Snarling from the Branch

Black-and-white photograph of a leopard perched on a tree branch, head tipped up with mouth open in a snarl, dappled light behind.

Plate XVI · Plate XVI · Simbambili, South Africa, December 2020Sony A7 III · 200mm ƒ/3.5 · 1/500 · ISO 125

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From a high branch a leopard looks up with its mouth open in a snarl, the low angle and the hard black-and-white turning the dappled canopy into a glare behind it. The shallow focus holds the teeth and the eye while the leaves dissolve to light.

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