This morning, after having a ridiculously good leopard sighting, I felt inspired to go through my computer looking back at some of the leopard pictures that I have taken over the last 4 years. I gave myself the challenge of trying to identify my favourite picture of every individual leopard I have seen on Londolozi. Not necessarily the best in terms of photographic style, technique, composition or lighting, but my personal favourite in terms of the whole package. In other words I was looking for my own photograph of each of Londolozi’s leopards that will be engrained in my minds eye FOREVER.
* note there are a handful of leopards which I either have not seen or have not been able to photograph.
I have been a guide at Londolozi for 4 years, allowing countless hours spent trying to capture these magic moments; some leopards are seen regularly and so I have had many opportunities to get the perfect pic, others I have seen once, and have had to settle for a less then ideal photograph, but often it is these rarer, seldom seen animals that result in their own magic.
I hope you enjoy my collection of the Leopards of Londolozi…
VOMBA FEMALE
WATCHETCHE FEMALE AND CUB
CAMP PAN MALE
DUDLEY 5:5 MALE
UKNOWN FEMALE OCT 2009
PIVA YOUNG CUB
TUTLWA FEMALE
KHAXANE MALE
SHORTY (TUGWAAN) MALE
DUDLEY RIVERBANK FEMALE
MAXABENI 3:3 YOUNG MALE
XIMPALAPALA YOUNG CUB
the late NYELETI FEMALE
MASHABA FEMALE
POSSIBLY THE XIMPALAPALA FEMALE
XIMPALAPALA YOUNG CUB
UNKNOWN MALE IN NORTH FEB 2011
DUDLEY RIVERBANK YOUNG FEMALE
TAMBOTI FEMALE
XIMPALAPALA YOUNGSTER
MAXABENI MALE 2009
MAXABENI 3:2 YOUNG MALE
NYELETI 4:3 YOUNG MALE
the late SUNSET-BEND FEMALE
RAVENSCOURT FEMALE
NYELETI YOUNG FEMALE
MARTHLY MALE
VOMBA’S CURRENT CUB
TUTLWA YOUNGSTER
OLD BOY- VERY OLD NOMADIC UKNOWN MALE
MAXABENI YOUNG CUB 2012
the late MBILO FEMALE
This leopard was born to the Nyelethi female in March 2008, but sadly did not live long enough to establish herself.
MAXABENI FEMALE
XIDULU YOUNG MALE OCT 2009
the late NEWINGTON MALE
CAMPBELL KOPPIES FEMALE
XIDULU FEMALE
the late TUTLWA CUB (2010)
PIVA FEMALE
NOTTENS FEMALE and TUGWAAN MALE
NYELETI 2:3 YOUNG MALE
DUDLEY WITH YOUNGSTER 2009
42 different leopards
Photographed by Adam Bannister
Beauriful photo’s Adam, thanks for sharing them with us.