TITLE: Wake-up Call

I captured this image in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana late one November afternoon. We had watched this mother leopard for several hours while she killed a gazelle and dragged it back over 100 yards into the bush and hid it. Exhausted after this effort she scaled a dead tree to nap on the branch. Our guide knew that she had two cubs hidden in the area so we patiently waited in hopes that eventually the cubs would appear. Just as the sun was about to set we saw the two young cubs crawl up the branch and wake their mother. Their mother wasn’t the least bit interested in us, but the two cubs were very curios and put on quite a show.

AUTHOR: Jim Guerard (United States)

Jim Guerard moved to Savannah in 2014 when he retired from Adobe Systems, Inc. as Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Jim is a self-taught photographer who began exploring photography in 2007 as entertainment on weekends during long business trips. Jim ventured deeper into photography after retiring and continues to hone his craft on the local area's scenic vistas and through an active travel schedule. When venturing away from Savannah, Jim’s priority is collecting images from around the world, intended to stir awareness and offer glimpses of elements in nature and distant cultures that are rapidly changing, and in some cases at risk of disappearing entirely.