Portraits of Large Wild Animals

What a stunning photo!!! Sometimes a black and white tiger photo can really look super amazing. What I love most about this photo is the way that the face is in total clarity and sharpness. The background isn't totally black but with some leaves or something faintly showing. I love the large and profuse whiskers popping out of the faces.

Great job!

I love this photo so much. Mother and baby, sooooo cute together. Lions are so huge yet they can be so cute and cuddly looking at times as well. You caught the P E R F E C T moment here, the cub is at just the right stance and with it's little tongue out just a tad, just right.

I love the lighting in the photo as well! It's a beautiful lighting, so soft yet so full of quality and vibrance. The background is amazing.

Congrats and great job!

I love this portrait of a deer bawling. The quality is great and the stance of the deer is very nice. The crop is great, good zooming in. I love how you caught some some of the breath in the air. Beautiful color and detail in the photo! Great job!

It was hard to find an elephant photo that I really liked. In this contest there were quite a few good, or even great ones. They are such a beautiful and majestic subject.

This one really caught my eye. It's interesting how the mother and offspring are both standing belly-deep in mud but don't seem to be stuck.

I love the lighting and the spray of mud that the elder elephant is throwing high in the air, makes the photo very interesting.

The photo is also very good quality. The background is very interesting. I love how you can see what's in the background, but it is just enough blurred to not be distracting. Congrats!

Another beautiful tiger portrait out of many in my contest. This one was my far my favorite one in color. The quality is perfect, but the looking off-screen gaze of the tiger is very interesting and rather appealing. I love how you have some of the body in the photo as well, and not just the head.

The background is very interest catching. It's beautiful how it's mostly black but right around the tiger's head at the sides it's a faint shade of wispy green.

The colors and details on the tiger's face are spectacular! Great job and congrats!

This photo is simply stunning. Catching backlight of the golden hour in clouds of dust like this, and having the subjects perfectly silhouetted yet you can see the details on them quite clearly, must be a very rare chance.

As horses are my favorite animal and zebras are so similar, maybe that's another reason why I like this photo so much.

The quality and sharpness are amazing, but the prize part is the beautiful golden hour in the dust. Great job!

The second that I saw this photo, I knew that it was going to be in my Top 10. I've NEVER EVER seen a more beautiful and stunning portrait of a fox! There are some amazing fox photos out there but this one takes 1st prize by far.

I can't even begin to explain how much I love this photo. The way that you caught the fox sitting and looking straight at you, the light coming in from the side, the green background, all are giving almost magical vibes and make the photo spectacular.

The lighting and color and quality are all perfect!! Huge congratulations on such a wonderful photo!

I love stalking images of cats. It's hard to get a good stalking image of a cat, even a domestic cat. Of course the best ones are when the cat is looking directly into the camera in a hunting crouch, but that must be rather scary if it looked like a big cat was stalking you.

I love the crop of the image and the way that the jaguar is blending into it's environment is very lovely. The lighting and quality are amazing, and the sharpness and detail on the face is great. Great job!

I felt like I had to have a good deer portrait in this contest. This one was one of my favorites!! I'm particularly drawn to the background. Is it mist, fog, or snow on a faraway hill, turned purple....? I love how it's a solid color but with ever so slight variations in color and tone that it's delightful.

The stance of the deer, looking straight into the camera with regal antlers rising like a crown from the wet head is amazing. The zooming is perfect for this photo, and the quality is amazing.

Congrats!