"A cheetah ambling across a field is among the most beautiful animals on Earth, long-legged and slim, shoulders rolling, lithe as a fashion model on the runway."

—Text from "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine)