Mother and baby rhino

This is another shot from Chitwan National Park in Nepal. The female rhino was hesitant to cross the road so close to our vehicle, and she checked us out before making the dash. Her baby followed closely behind, but it didn’t cross the road in front of the mother. Instead, instinctively it crossed behind its mother for protection from a possible threat -- us. That showed a very good survival instinct, but it made for a disappointing picture. Between the hind end of the mother and the bushes on the left, I couldn’t get the entire baby to show as it quickly crossed the dirt road. Either the head was obscured by the large bulk of the mother or the rear of the youngster was blocked by vegetation. To make this composite, I selected sections of the young rhino from three different images (I was shooting at 14 frames per second) and pieced it back together in front of its mother to create the picture I really wanted. My settings for the shot were 1/500, f/7.1, 3200 ISO.