I photographed this wild bobcat in the mountains of Colorado in the late 80's. Given the limitations of the Mamiya RZ 67 (manual exposure, manual film advance, and manual focus), it's amazing I was able to take any pictures of wildlife. I used a 500mm f/6 Mamiya lens for this shot, and right afterwards I made the mistake of turning the camera into the wind. I was in the middle of a blizzard that had just started, and the horizontally blowing snow instantly froze on the front glass element of the lens making further photography impossible. I had to walk about a mile back to my car, warm up the inside, and slowly melt the ice off the glass. When I returned to the spot where I'd seen the bobcat, he was gone. My settings were unrecorded, but when I photographed animals with film I usually used 1/400, f/5.6 or f/8, and the transparency film was Fujichrome Provia 100. Provia was one f/stop faster than Velvia, which was ISO 50, and that was a big deal back then. Now, photographing wildlife with such a low ISO is almost never done. The 6x7cm transparency was scanned by an Imacon scanner. The only thing I never liked about this image is the wood protrusion at the bottom center of the frame is too close to the cat's tail.
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