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I worked hard for this meal.

I worked hard for this meal.

By the time that I took this photo the kill was about three days old. It was in the region of 44°C or 111°F, and by this time it was covered with blow flies a...
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By the time that I took this photo the kill was about three days old. It was in the region of 44°C or 111°F, and by this time it was covered with blow flies and smelt very rank but it was a shot just waiting to be taken.
The leopard is the most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores, it is also the shrewdest. Pond for pound, it is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 1250 Shutter 1/200

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May, 2013

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Awards

Magnificent Capture

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Superior Skill

Peer Award

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Incredible shot, Brian! Very sharp.

Wow, what a capture! Incredible and brilliant!

I'm so jealous of the photo opportunities that you have ;) You have a lot of Jaw dropping shots!

Beautiful shot Brian!

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Photo taken in the Tuli Safari Area, Botswana.
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Location: Tuli Safari Area, NE Botswana

This photo was taken at Mabula Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Red Hot Pokers occur naturally in all the nine provinces of South Africa. Kwa-Zulu Natal possesses the highest number of Kniphofia species, compared t

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Green Tree Frog Portrait © Brian Basson Photography

Shot taken in Makuze Game Reserve, South Africa June, 2016.

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The mopane caterpillar, is an important source of protein for millions of indigenous Southern Africans. Wikipedia

Mopane (sometimes spelled Mopani)

3,400 m above sea level and the tree line.

These two shepherds were high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, southern Africa.

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In the past 5 years 250,000 of these amazing cats have been killed for fashion. In the past 50 years the leopard population has declined from 700,000

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