LEOPARD SECLUSION

This female leopard with her exquisite facial markings is known as the "Tortilis female", named after a large Acacia tree she often frequents in her territory near Mombo Camp in the Okavango Delta, Northern Botswana.

This image has been hand processed on warm tone fibre based paper, fixed, hypo-cleared, washed, selenium toned and washed again to the requirements of ANSI archival standards, by Dennis da Silva, one of the most respected craftsman in his field in South Africa.

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