This was taken about 15 years ago at Northwood, a now-gone game preserve north and east of Toronto.
After visiting it with a photo group, I went back a number of times with my mother, wife and our two children, all animal lovers.
On this particular visit, our daughter's first, she became transfixed by the Tiger, and squatted close to the fence just watching the beautiful creature, for about a half hour.
As she told me later, she was wondering if she could stick her hand through the fence and just touch his paw. Apparently the preserves owner saw her and walked up behind her, and sensing what she was thinking, quietly whispered, "Not a good idea. If you stick your hand in, he'll tear it off and eat it for lunch."
When I showed this picture to Joanna the other day, she sighed and said that she is probably destined to die at the hands of some large member of the cat family when she just can't help herself and tries to play with it.
motorized Nikon F2AS
Nikkor 180 2.8 ED AIS manual focus
Ektachrome 100 ISO colour slide
exposure probably 2.8 @ 1/500th
