Running Cheetah

I took the sequence of photos of a cheetah sprinting past me at the Rhino and Lion Park in Gauteng, South Africa.

I sat roughly 2 meters away from it at the closest point at the end of its run. With nothing between us
Awesome experience!
The cheetah was on a leesh when they brought it out for the demonstration, but they take it off so the cheetah can run.
They have a material sack that is connected via a long rope to a motor, which pulls the sack at high speed across the ground and the cheetah, being a cat, is quick to chase.

I had my camera on sport setting for fast frame capture.
But because I did not keep the cheetah in the centre of the frame while tracking it, the closer images go a bit out of focus, but still looks cool.

I used Photoshop, photomerge function to stitch the images together, resulting in a image size of 10900 x 2100 pixels, which was too big to upload here, so have resized it a bit
The Photomerge function helped to get the right perspective through out the images, but the masking it used was not correct, so I had to edit that a lot, but I think the final outcome is fairly satisfactory.

Choose the download option to view it at 4154 x 800 pixels