Yesterday and today's shot share the theme of cats in the wild. They also happen to be one of my favorite animals. Cats, ranging from tigers to cheetahs, from lynx to the fishing cat here, are very close to being extinct. The fishing cat in the picture, is rated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning that  it is 'facing a high risk of extinction in the wild'. To learn and see more about this wonderful creature so mercilessly ignored by our settlements, you can watch this video: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/movies/TheBigCatPictureClips/MovieClipFishingCat.htm 

I was going for a sketchy, painting effect in this one and the blur in the shot I think made it look like that. The coloured-version was a definite no-no here... although I do wish I could have brought out the colours better in it.

wildLife series | I believe there is so much we ought to teach our generation and the generations to come about the other forms of life that were meant to live in peaceful co-existence with us (or were we supposed to live in peaceful co-existence with them? Simple play of words... but a completely different way of looking at the scenario). It is a shame that even when we're told that a certain species is endangered, we sympathize for a minute and forget about it the next... not realizing we just allowed it to happen. With that shrug, we sent an entire species to it's extinction. With our ignorance and lack of empathy, we turn our backs on God's wonderful creations. So this is my attempt at bringing to light a few of those creatures who deserve a moment of our time to be recognized as beautiful, gentle, agile or whatever adjectives prolific writers use to describe humans. I'm definitely not the first to do this, and hopefully not the last.