A Parting Gift

Taken in Samburu National Reserve, in northern Kenya, on the way to the airstrip as we were leaving the park. We'd had an amazing leopard trip in Samburu, multiple sightings over several days, and I genuinely thought the photography was done and the cameras could go back in the bag.

Then, almost as a parting gift, this leopard appeared, descending a tree right in front of us. In black and white, the moment takes on a slightly more timeless, almost cinematic quality - the last image from a trip that had already given us so much, arriving right as we were about to leave