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To get a photo of a cheetah hunt means luck of the draw. I tried it for so many years, but I always failed. You can do some preparation in advance when you see a hunt is going to start the next time, but at the end it's a matter of luck. In most cases the cat and the prey run into another direction or directly towards your car. To get both animals passing your car not too far away, that's pure luck. And they are so fast, your eyes can't follow the action, you simply have to shoot. When it was over I nearly couln't believe that it had worked perfectly this time!

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Axel Hildebrandt 8 months ago

Great timing and I'm glad your patience paid off.

Menachem Sinai 8 months ago

WOW

santanu nandy 8 months ago

absolutely fantastic. yes I know how difficult it is I missed a few last month!!

Lee Fisher 10 months ago

great action shot

makarand sarmalkar 1 year ago

perfect

Ali Nafisi 1 year ago

FREEZE !!!

Mohammad Reza Akhoondi 1 year ago

WOW

giuseppe maiorana 1 year ago

to be in the right place in the right moment often is not enough!!
you did a very good job!!

mousa yeganeh 1 year ago

wow...

Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza 1 year ago

Aamzing...

Ali Maleki 1 year ago

The photo is wonderful and it took in wonderful time.

Assaf Gavra 1 year ago

very hard to capture very hard to get sharp image very hard to get good background
you got all those in your photo in superb way , congrats !

Puneet Dembla 1 year ago

Superado ! Superistic! Superish !

Luthfie Maulana 1 year ago

Nice moment, you took in a good composition & moment...love it.

Jose Luis Cunha 1 year ago

nice capture

Ahmet SOLMAZ 1 year ago

greate moment and very good shot

Sven Fennema 1 year ago

poor thing...but extraordinary and impressive shot!

Steve Vetter 1 year ago

Congrats Werner on this amazing shot!

Steve

Veselin Kanev 1 year ago

Excellent

transport58 1 year ago

poor :(

Helle Lorenzen 1 year ago

Amazing.....;-)

Slavomir M. 1 year ago

excellent

Northman 1 year ago

Awesome; congrats with this very nice capture!

Robert 1 year ago

Excellent! Robert

Eric Dufour 1 year ago

Splendid capture Werner!

Tshuvi Kuba 1 year ago

powerful!

michel 1 year ago

Compliments !

Lev Tsimring 1 year ago

congratulations on your success! It is a matter of luck, of course, but it is usually awarded to the skilled and persistent!

s.g.zorrilla 1 year ago

Amazing shot!! Congratulations!!

eric94350 1 year ago

well done, nice shot !!!

Harry Eggens 1 year ago

Congratulations with this amazing capture Werner.

I'm glad you finally, after so many times of bad luck, managed to get the shot you wanted for years.
Good for us viewers also because now we have got the change to look at it.
Thanks for sharing.
Love the great and excellent story you wrote to the image. Thanks!

Best regards, Harry

Peter Svoboda 1 year ago

very dramatic moment, fantastic captured, I can imagine what effort is behind such a great result, compliments

majid tarighati 1 year ago

+++++

dorothée rapp 1 year ago

as humans eating meat usually prepared nicely in pieces it's good to face nature :-) every now and then... congrats to a really splendid shot. what amazes me most here is the utter beauty in both animals, such opposite poses, just like their fates... you stopped time and gave it space, you created a moment of art here! just excellent! wonderfully rewarding it must be for you, and well deserved!
(of course, I love cats.... ;-))

Colmar Wocke 1 year ago

Fantatstic capture - sometimes you need the luck. Nevertheless, well done to you!

Fabien BRAVIN 1 year ago

Really excellent. That's a pure wildlife picture. Your efforts have been rewarded.
Really really great

martin zalba 1 year ago

good!

Kusoglu Ali 1 year ago

Wow ...
Excellent ...

Ion Lacatus 1 year ago

I think I don't want to know how this ended but it's a great shot. Dynamism and clarity ... super. And yes, it takes much more then mere luck to get this kind of results. Congrats!

Werner Bollmann Dear Ion,

it ended up seconds later in the way we all would expect. This cheetah female had three little cubs to nurse, so it was very important for her to make as many succesful hunts as possible. And there were a lot of hyeanas in this area, which are a deadly threat to the cubs. The mother had to be very alert all the time. Really a stressful job!

And - by the way - thank you very much to everybody for all the nice compliments!!!

Eduardo Castro 1 year ago

This is not luck! It is the reward for the dedication.
Great work!!!

Stephen Earle 1 year ago

Congratulations. A once in a lifetime image.

karan4o 1 year ago

This is the moment!!! Congratulations!

Jan Gravekamp 1 year ago

Congratulations, great capture, with or without luck :-)!!

hardibudi 1 year ago

Incredible shot!

Vic. Parsons. 1 year ago

As with all good wildlife action photography, patience and perseverance are the key to unlocking the oportunity but making the most of that oportunity takes skill and planning and your image is a fine example of the dedication needed to achieve such wonderful results as this.
This is top drawer photography Werner and dare i say it, a potential winner in any wildlife photography competition should you choose to enter it ;-)
Congratulations on a well earned catch........it's a beauty :-)
Best regards
Vic.

KPK 1 year ago

Klasse!
Glückwunsch zum gelungenen Foto und Danke für die Hintergrundinfo!

Ben Goossens 1 year ago

Fantastic capture... bravo, Werner:-)

Amnon Eichelberg 1 year ago

wow one of the moments

johnpainter 1 year ago

Great capture, and you even managed to get catch-lights in the eye of the prey! Congratulations.

Magda Orzel 1 year ago

perfect !!!

Heidi Westum 1 year ago

It`s really great - and worth waiting for:)

gerard sexton 1 year ago

Werner it is so refreshing to read such an honest narrative beside such an amazing photo. Since I have experience of shooting action I can only agree. But I would add that your luck is a result of your effort so in that effort you make your own luck & with experience you place yourself in such a way that it is no longer luck but judgment that way we can applaud you & not your luck! Certainly your capture is superb & captures the struggle for life & death survival on the one hand is about avoiding death by running while on the other its about staving off hunger. The hunter & the hunted a drama played out every hour of every day in the wild. Thank you for giving us the chance to experience the power of this amazing event.