The Black Panther Returns

David Yarrow:

‘This photograph of a black panther required precision in all I could do and then precision in all the camera could do. I shot with 1/1600th of a second, as this cat was moving so quickly toward my cage that I worried any longer shutter speed would risk blurring—and what a picture to screw up by making a lazy setting. That is quite a technical narrative for this photograph, but the reality is that after the word emotion, I think the next most important word for a photographer is math. Photography may be an art long before it is a science, but math does matter.’