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Portrait of a Predator
Portrait of a Predator
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Portrait in Landscape Orientation (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Oakland Zoo
Date: Oct 29, 2006
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Candid, Animals
Date Uploaded: Oct 30, 2006

 I hope this qualifies as a portait in this challenge. No mention that the portait had to be human. I thought most mammals made a better subject for a landscape format, so I made a trip to the zoo. Ran across this rather large hyena pacing back and forth in an enclosure below me. Every so often he shot up a rather unfriendly glance. I caught this one.

This image reminds me of Paul Theroux's rich description of a preditory hyena in his adventure biography: "Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown".

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/07/2006 07:24:06 AM
What a look!
 11/03/2006 07:59:47 PM
It's a hyena right? Jackal? Oh well...it's a super nice photo.
 11/03/2006 12:24:35 AM
this hyena looks tamed to me.
 11/02/2006 08:18:09 PM
he doesn't look to mean...
 11/01/2006 05:43:58 AM
dog..no hyena!


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