Amur leopard - Milena

The Amur leopards are big cats and definitely part of our Big Cat Photography and children's photography workshops at the Colchester Zoological Society. As the leopard enclosures are not far from the entrance area and the main restaurant, we usually stop by here multiple times during the workshops. This gives our photography workshop participants a good chance not only to photograph this beautiful big cat species in different light conditions but also to gain different photo opportunities.
The Big Cat Photography and the Wildlife Photography for Teenagers workshops are available all year around, hopeully enables our photography workshops participants to get images of Amur leopards in wintery conditions. This species lives in the Russian Far East, which has a colder climate for several months of the year (unfortunately we did not have as much snow during the last few winters; I took this photo of Milena back in February 2012).