Agile and Graceful

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Description

With muscles stretched in precise coordination and claws gripping the bark firmly, a leopard descends from a tree, exhibiting its graceful agility and unmistakable elegance.
This image was taken in Nagarhole National Park (India).

Technical Details

1/800 sec, f/7.1, ISO-1600

Canon R5, Canon 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 IS Lens

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Lovely look at this leopard. Quite elegant as you say. I enjoy seeing the entire cat from head to tail. Nice light to show off this beautiful animal.

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Nice catch Sandipan. I love the long look at this leopard coming down the tree trunk. Great timing to get this and really nice work to get the right detail, and lighting.

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What a wonderful and unusual point of view for wildlife shot! You must have been right under the leopard. Composition-wise, the curve in the tree and in the leopard’s descent is most effective, and you couldn’t have asked for better light on the leopard . Superb image. Is the leopard and its tail more elongated because of the point of view?

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Sandipan: what a wonderful image. It’s amazing how leopards actually walk down a tree trunk with ease. My only minor suggestions would be to de-saturate the greens a bit and to add a vignette to further emphasize this fabulous cat.

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It is beautifully captured and I just love the coat of leopard !
You may crop out the tiny bright branch on the top right corner.

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It looks like the curve of the tail is matching the tree-trunk curve to increase camouflage. An exciting and original shot!

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Fantastic Shot over all. Love the Composition and the idea of capturing one of these big cats in the wild would be thrilling

For my tastes, the cat appears to have had too much exposure lightening done in post… he seems to have an almost halo glow around it… It distracted me from the rest of the superb image…

But could be just a trick of the light

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Beautiful. And the title of the image describes it all.
I agree with @Mike_Friel that the curve of the tail is a bonus. I like @JRajput 's suggestion to crop out (or darken?) the small bright branch in the URC.
Wonderful image!

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Thank you all. Great feedback.