This was taken at a game park which is as close as I could get to the wild without going to Africa :) This was taken through the glass of my car window. No advanced editing was used. Just crop, resize, sharpen and upped the contrast a bit.
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Given the spirit of the challenge was to capture a shot of wildlife in its natural environment, I find it most difficult to believe that this was done with your entry. Needless to say my vote on this was very low given those circumstances. When a photo does not do its best in composition to depict actual challenge guidelines, my stadegy for voting immediately stops and it becomes a DNMC to me. I seriously doubt that any wild cats or huge other wild and known-to-possibly-attack-man animals in this challenge were hunted for to this extreme and over a graphic ribbon.