A grey, wet morning, and the drizzle clumped her fur into spikes. Rain mutes a cheetah's colours but it does something better to the eyes — everything around them goes soft and dark, and the amber sits there burning. Shot tight at the long end, exposed for the face, background left to dissolve.

Cheetah in the Rain
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022
1D X Mark II, 200 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 400