Cheetah

On our first evening in Samburu we found this cheetah picking over a gazelle it had just brought down. We had about ten minutes to look at it in dim light before a dozen or so other safari vehicles spotted us and rushed up to join in the gawking.

Details: Minolta X-500, 130mm, exposure not recorded. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, December 1998. Placemark (approximate).