Video: How the photo of the black leopard was made, the first in 100 years – 13/02/2019

The English photographer Will Burrard-Lucas went on an expedition to Africa and came back with much more than the "wild" experience he had dreamed of. He came back with a historical photo that goes around the world: that of a black leopard, the cat became a legend because we had not seen it for 100 years.

At age 35, this animal lover, born in England, realizes a dream that accompanies him since his childhood. While he was walking in the plains of Kenya, on a dark night, his cameras captured this myth with claws.

As Burrard-Lucas badured the British newspaper Daily mail, the black leopard was looking for a prey. In absolute darkness. He confused it first with a panther – which fascinated him too – before seeing the characteristic spots on the fur of leopards.

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As he explains in the video, before the photo, he arranged the cameras so that the final capture is perfect. Thus, neither the vegetation nor the pbadage of the other animals – or the leopard itself – would cover the lens. Of course, the "camera" is only an expression. The photographer organized a specific camera in each of the directions in which the animal could enter the photo. "If the leopard pbades by here, this camera would take it, if it went through it," he said.

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The photo was taken at a distance, thanks to one of his inventions: a kind of triad of wireless cameras "all terrain" activated by motion sensors.

Does Burrard-Lucas represent BeetleCam and founded Camtraptions, companies seeking to develop new photographic products for remote outlets.

"I can not really believe it when I started this project, I did not think I could get a picture of a black leopard in Africa, but that's exactly what's here at the Back of my camera. It's the most awesome and spectacular creature I've ever photographed!"Said Burrard-Lucas Daily mail.

Specialists believe that the animal photographed would correspond to a female and would have a year. In addition, they indicated that leopards tended to frequent dense forests to hide and hunt their prey.

Although there may be sightings in Kenya, black leopards are still considered extremely rare on the African continent. Melanism (excess of black pigmentation) occurs in about 11% of the world's leopards, but most of them live in Southeast Asia. "The black leopards in Africa are extremely rare, and before the observations of our published article, the last confirmed sighting was in 1909, in Ethiopia," said Nick Pilfold, a scientist at the San Diego Zoo in the United States, who worked together. Burrard-Lucas and confirmed the existence of the specimen through one paper.

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