Unforgiven
Cougar, one of the most maligned carnivores in North America. Like the grizzly bear and timberwolf, these large carnivores need lots of space to live, and when they go after livestock it is because they either are sick and malnourished from overpopulation as a result of human habitat destruction, or from a lack of natural prey also a direct result of human encroachment upon their native habitat. A big cat is going to do what evolution created a big cat to do and that is hunt and kill. As they say in sports, don’t hate the player (i.e. cougar), hate the game (i.e. habitat destruction)!
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Gayle Shaw, 6 months ago
Perfection in an image!
Linda Syms, 6 months ago
You do some amazing work Mandy,I love the wildlife.
Suni Pruett, 6 months ago
what a great capture..amazing expression from the cougar…love the contrast..another brilliant picture!
Sean Farragher, 6 months ago
FANTASTIC IMAGE
stormphotonet, 6 months ago
Well done nice eyes
brummieboy, 6 months ago
The eyes are mesmeric …..
brummieboy, 6 months ago
The eyes are mesmeric …..
Antanas, 6 months ago
Great capture
Linda Syms, 6 months ago
Sorry Mundy,i spelt your name wrong my apologies.
Nikki Mulkern, 6 months ago
This is amazing, love this shot!
Tina Miller, 6 months ago
wonderful color…I love the eyes!!!
Victor(Vic) Be..., 6 months ago
amazing details !!!
Pete Chennell, 6 months ago
the eyes have it!...awesome shot
sally williams, 6 months ago
magnificent, as always
Stefan Trenker, 6 months ago
amazing crop and wonderful detail! perfect work
Mundy Hackett, 6 months ago
Thank you all for looking, to me there is really nothing more hypnotic than the eyes of a wild cat, regardless of size. There is a wildness and a hidden intensity that is so palpable, it is different than that of a bear or a wolf or any other family of Carnivora.
loramae, 6 months ago
Those eyes…WoW! Lovely!
Robert Burns M..., 6 months ago
beautiful an image of perfected art.
collectiveone, 6 months ago
Perfect! amazing detail and perfectly composed.
aphoto4you, 6 months ago
Mundy thank you for comenting on my sales….I share excitement…and looking at your success makes me happy….I love looking at your photos and its a joy…This one is another joy and smiles looking at it…you bring out of the animals that many take for granted…These friends of us who loves wildlife means so much to us…keep u ….great job!!
Mark Peterson, 6 months ago
Another excellent shot…
daniels, 6 months ago
gorgeous capture! db
velveteagle, 6 months ago
Bravo.. Well said and Captured.. A winner again Mundy..
PhotogeniquE IPA, 6 months ago
a real stunner – just look at those eyes
panthrcat, 6 months ago
gorgeous!! I love the crop!!
Sharon Bishop, 6 months ago
Wow…as sharp as those yeys
John Davis, 6 months ago
wonderful eyes
Andy Harris, 6 months ago
wow.. great close-up… love the texture of the face and the clarity of the eyes, hair and whiskers… great stuff!
Anita Donohoe, 6 months ago
so expressive…
Wonderful shot, Mundy!
We have a very healthy cougar population on the ranch. They compete with the coyotes and bobcats for deer, rabbits and wild turkeys. Occasionally, they will take a calf from my cousin’s beef cattle. Fortunately, the cougars don’t come too close to headquarters!
cdwork, 6 months ago
Wonderful photo and message
photoeyes, 6 months ago
He is sooooooo beautiful, I wish I could be born again as a big cat.
Dharna, 6 months ago
Beautiful image Mundy. I love the big cats.
Carl Chick, 6 months ago
Great framing and use of negative space. Excellent image.
GracefulShadow, 6 months ago
Awesome pic Mundy.
berndt2, 6 months ago
Great shot, great title!
hallucingenic, 6 months ago
i love these animals n i love this capture!
micmac, 6 months ago
Gorgeous earthy colors,magnificient picture.
Luuezz, 6 months ago
awesome work!
Jeff Burns, 6 months ago
gorgeous shot. amazing composition and those eyes are amazing
Julie Langford
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6 months ago
Oh Mundy – you must stop this, there are only so many reaction goosebumps a person can take you know LOL. Your work just never ceases to amaze me, never. Breathtaking
Tiffany Dryburgh, 6 months ago
Beautifully said, Mundy!
Tiffany Dryburgh, 6 months ago
Sorry, there’s more!
I love the way the cougar’s expression seems to be one of appeal and sadness which just fits so beautifully what you have said about their plight.
Ok, that’s probably me being my usual extremely anthropomorphic self! But there you go!
DawsonImages, 6 months ago
Excellent eye contact
Dan Cahill, 6 months ago
Gorgeous as always Mundy. The eyes are amazing
Rick Lawler, 6 months ago
The sharpness of detail is stunning. Great work!
BySilent, 6 months ago
Lovely shot
cozmist, 6 months ago
fantastic as usual …congrats on getting it on the feature page
Devika Fernando, 6 months ago
oh my gosh, this is BRILLIANT! it has an almost human expression in the way it peers at us.
GabrielK, 6 months ago
awesome image, and great description too
markwalton3, 6 months ago
Very nice capture
Angelique Brunas, 6 months ago
Beautiful again my friend!
Rosalie Dale IPA, 6 months ago
Superb detail. A winner, this one.
Tanya Mc Geever, 6 months ago
Couldn’t agree more. =)
I love the cougar’s sad expression. It’s beautiful. { Greatly portrayed! }
They may be killers – but they do what they have to do in order to survive.
x
mickeyb, 6 months ago
amazing shot/
Zern Liew, 6 months ago
Brilliant image. And couldn’t agree more with your post.
conilouz, 6 months ago
this is awsome,,, great job
sasha, 6 months ago
Just amazing
Hadassah, 6 months ago
myeterious!!!
Christophe Testi, 6 months ago
Superb shot!
Xenia Victori..., 6 months ago
This is amazing! I like it!
cathy savels, 6 months ago
Wow! What an amazing shot! Superb!
Cheri McEachin, 6 months ago
Awsome shot here—-another one…
Douzy, 6 months ago
I love the tight crop. great composition. The eyes are just glorious!
Wendy Slee, 6 months ago
great framing, great message. Well done!
shadowzone, 6 months ago
the stare is so intense, beautiful work!!
rainbowpromise, 6 months ago
Wow, lookit those eyes!
kaylarenee, 6 months ago
so wonderful!
Siamesecat, 6 months ago
What a magnificent animal..
I ADORE it, this picture says it all… Siamese cat and kittens…
Elana Halvorson, 6 months ago
Wow1 This is beautifull
AnnasArt, 5 months ago
wow beautiful!!!!!!!!!!
Karen Fahey, 5 months ago
I couldn’t ask for a more beautiful portrait of an animal I admire and care for. Your comments about their wildly inaccurate depiction in folklore is so right on. When I lived in Montana, on Swan Lake, we were once visited by a pair (yes a pair) of cougars who got their drink of water from the lake and moved back into the trees where they disappeared. All of our neighbors were terrified and insisted that baby horses (we had just had a colt born) were cougars’ favorite food, which is hogwash. In Oregon an annual event is to try to reinstate the law allowing hunting cougars with dogs, because they’re “killing all the wildlife and a danger to people.” Your other art piece, “Extinction is Forever” fits well here.
....Sorry, guess I got on my soapbox here. But I love these animals and fear they’ll be gone in fifty years.
Jessie Harris, 5 months ago
This is so beautiful.
bobbymcleod, 4 months ago
the processing on this one is fantastic mundy!
Pat Abbott, 4 months ago
Mundy this is gorgeous!
J. Fehringer, 4 months ago
Piercing eyes! I love it!!
Margaret Barry, 4 months ago
Stunning capture!
Jay Ryser, 3 months ago
Great eye contact, love the black BG for him
ZacharyReed, 3 months ago
wow, this is amazing
Cinthia Creel, 3 months ago
Such beautiful creatures. I use to love lying in bed listening to them out in the desert at night. Now thanks to greed and cookie cutter homes, people have moved in and destroyed the desert, which is the animals home. Makes me mad and sad at once. Beautiful images.
Mundy Hackett, 3 months ago
Thanks so much Cinthia, sad and true….
mimi yoon, 2 months ago
there are communications with them through your lens…
Jonathan Dower, 2 months ago
Wow, you can feel the emotions of the cougar…. and I wholeheartedly agree with you, even though I’ve never seen a real Cougar and I live in the UK. One of the most beautiful animal photographs I’ve ever seen.
Elizabeth Wold, about 1 month ago
Absolutely gorgeous. A fantastic portrait of such an amazing creature. I would love to see a couger in their natural habitat one day. So sad that they have such a bad reputation. I’ve read that they are a sign of a healthy ecosystem. If the ecosystem can support cougers then everything else is healthy.
Elizabeth Wold, about 1 month ago
Absolutely gorgeous. A fantastic portrait of such an amazing creature. I would love to see a couger in their natural habitat one day. So sad that they have such a bad reputation. I’ve read that they are a sign of a healthy ecosystem. If the ecosystem can support cougers then everything else is healthy.
Peace Mitchell, about 1 month ago
I like the way you’ve captured so much emotion with this expression, the composition adds impact too. Excellent shot.
Mandy Fell, about 1 month ago
what an amazing shot the eyes just suck you in.
Rosalie Scanlon, about 1 month ago
Beautiful, yet so sad, The panthers are really struggling here in Florida. They too are losing their habitat. Nice photo of this beautiful animal.
Don Quackenbush, 21 days ago
great image, we have a basement that is devoted to cougars. partly due to where we went to school, but just as much because they are such majestic creatures.
well done
mlgkats, 21 days ago
great eye contact , lighting , clarity, beautiful cat