I took this picture several years ago. This was a captive black leopard who, I was told, didn't like men. From his expression, you can see that this was absolutely true!
What has bothered me about this picture for a long time is that the cat's eyes were originally jade green because of the reflection of the flash. Just like red-eye in humans, the eyes of large cats often go green when a flash is used. This evening I used the hue/saturation dialog box in Photoshop (Image > adjustments > hue/saturation) to remove the green color. In the pulldown submenu, I selected 'green' and then moved the saturation slider to the left, i.e. de-saturating just green. The result is still a bit eerie, but it's much better than the original green color.
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