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    Getaway gallery 2019 winners

    Dec 17, 2019 6 minutes

    FIRST PRIZE

    WATCHING YOU, WATCHING ME

    This is one of the best leopard sightings I almost never had. We were driving around the Okavango Delta when my guide, Robi, paused next to a photogenic sausage tree. While I was admiring the huge hollow at the top of it, he was having a closer look with his binoculars. Robi had noticed claw marks on the bark, and figured that a female leopard he hadn’t seen for a while might be inside nursing cubs. Sure enough, there she was, playing hide and seek.

    By CLARE DOOLAN, BOTSWANA Canon 7D MkII, Canon EF 100-400mm, ISO 1600, f/5.6, 1/640 sec

    See page 50 for more about this photographer, her prize and the judges’ comments.

    SECOND PRIZE

    MY BROKEN HEART

    This was taken during the Sardine Run, at Port St Johns. The belief had always been that without the presence of fast-moving common dolphins, other predators are incapable of keeping a bait ball together. However, here the blacktip sharks formed a virtual cage around the fish,

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