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PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Winfried Wisniewski | The little hunter

Name: Winfried Wisniewski
Picture title: The little hunter
Category: People’s Choice
Nationality: Germany
Occupation: I’m not a full time photographer, I’m retired from job as teacher

Technical information
Camera: Nikon D4
Lens: Nikon 600/4
EXIF: 1/1600 sec at f4.5; ISO: 640
Accessories: Bean bag from a window of a four-wheel-drive-car.

Winfried says: 

Several years I was photographing for a new book “Der richtige Augenblick” (“The right moment”). I tried to find the right moment in the behavior of birds and mammals, for example fighting ruffs and black grouses, hunting eagles. I spent a long time in Africa trying to photograph the fascinating hunt of cheetahs and leopards. One day in March 2016, I followed a leopard mother with her half-grown cub in the high grass of Mara Masai Preserve. The young leopard played with its mother and stalked her again and again and jumped on her back. It was very difficult to photograph, because you couldn’t see the young in the high grass at all. When you saw the cub it was already in the air. So you had to anticipate where  the young leopard was and rely on your autofocus system to focalize the animal. At least once it worked. In the end it was luck.