Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

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Patience is a virtue, and for no one else is that more true than the photographer (or maybe a feline stalking its prey).

“I just felt like a war correspondent waiting on my knees and elbows in the sand (as bemused people walked by) for the opportune moment when true emotion could be captured,” the photographer said of this shot taken in Thailand.

The shot is brilliant in that both the chick and the cat appear to convey obvious expression–a rarity for animals. The cat’s look is one of intent purpose, nature taking its course. The chick, beak agape and legs in motion, appears to be scurrying for its life.

Of course, we don’t know the outcome of this saga with certainty, but the photographer reported that the chick didn’t hold the pregnant cat’s attention for very long. Apparently the chick lived to tweet another day.