Bengal tigers spar playfully in Rajasthan, India. “I came across this tiger family one chilly, foggy January morning as they finished feasting on a sambar deer kill,” writes Your Shot member Souvik Kundu. “In an energetic and playful mood, the cubs engaged in several bouts of jostling under the watchful eye of the mother.”
Zebras gather at the Mara River
on the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Your Shot member Manoj Shah, who
submitted this photo, managed to capture a unique perspective of the herd.
“This photo was taken by a special remote camera, developed so that it could be
triggered from a distance. The camera was hidden where the zebras go to drink
water and cross to the other side of the river … in a rocky place so that they
would behave naturally, without any disturbance. The whole idea was to capture
what an insect … would see when in the midst of the herd.”
Surfers wait for the perfect icy swell at this
seemingly unlikely surfing spot: Unstad Beach in Norway’s Lofoten Islands,
captured in this image by Konsta Linkola. “We were hit by a blizzard as we were
approaching the beach,” Linkola writes, “which made the surfing more extreme.”
The exoticism of Big Sur,
California, is on vivid display in this colorful photo submitted by Your Shot
member Israel De Alba. It’s little wonder that many American artists—writers
Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac, and photographer Ansel Adams included—were
inspired here.
On the Prowl
Notoriously elusive, cougars vary
their range in response to their prey, mostly elk and deer. In winter they
favor the shallow snow in the northern reaches of Yellowstone. This cougar was
caught on the prowl by a camera trap set behind an elk rack on a cliff.
