This is the same cheetah that I am petting in my bio photo on my website. Her name is Sheba and she was injured and caught in a barbed wire fence when she was just six weeks old (her right eye was permanently damaged in the accident). In this photo, she is six months old (almost fully grown). Ever since her injury, a Masai warrior had been tending to her — taking her out for walks and watching over her as she learned how to fend for herself in the wild. By the time I took this photo, she was already making kills on her own of impala and zebra — and she was only about two weeks away from being completely released back into the wild.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 400, f/6.3 at 1/1600th of a second