September 22, 2026

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A split-screen image showing a white tiger yawning on the left and a close-up portrait of an orange tiger on the right.

Photographing Tigers: Portraits of Big Cats Unlike Any Before

By some strange turn of fate, I found myself sitting on a camera case, face-to-face with a 500-pound tiger from less than a foot away. I could feel his breath on my skin, and more than once, that same breath fogged the front element of my lens as I photographed him.