I went to Africa last summer and spent the month of July in Kenya and Tanzania. This cheetah family was from the last leg of our trip in the Maasai Mara in Kenya.

We came across a cheetah Mom and three cubs just as they began to stalk a herd of Wildebeest. It was during the migration so there were many to choose from. I stopped photographing just as she started to take off and will never forget the amazing chase.

She seemed to fly through the grass and her feet never touched the ground. She came down on the top of a young wildebeest but was chased away by the mass of adult wildebeests kicking her and stomping her. Her young cubs could not keep up but were reunited with her when she climbed on this termite mound and called to them. They joined her and she looked out over the plains and rested.

A moment later they moved on, I suspect, in search of the next opportunity for breakfast.

Julia Rogers