Keeping your eyes and heart open in Africa will give you the most extraordinary gift. Not a gift of a photograph but the gift of experience.  What I remember about this image is not the shock of staring straight up into a leopard that I did not know; what I remember most is the silent exchange of glances of us both defining a mental boundary, and then the acceptance of it.  

I think I am a photographer only because I want to keep some moments like these burned forever in my mind. 

Leopard, South Africa