Unforgiven
This is a captive animal that resides at the Living Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
Cougar, one of the most maligned carnivores in North America. Like the grizzly bear and timberwolf, these large carnivores need lots of space to live, and when they go after livestock it is because they either are sick and malnourished from overpopulation as a result of human habitat destruction, or from a lack of natural prey also a direct result of human encroachment upon their native habitat. A big cat is going to do what evolution created a big cat to do and that is hunt and kill. As they say in sports, don’t hate the player (i.e. cougar), hate the game (i.e. habitat destruction)!
Unforgiven belongs to the following groups:
Animal Kingdom, Big Cats, Exotic Mammals and ZoophoriaAvailable for sale as Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints
Gayle Shaw
Perfection in an image!
Linda Syms
You do some amazing work Mandy,I love the wildlife.
Suni Pruett
what a great capture..amazing expression from the cougar…love the contrast..another brilliant picture!
Sean Farragher
FANTASTIC IMAGE
stormphotonet
Well done nice eyes
brummieboy
The eyes are mesmeric …..
brummieboy
The eyes are mesmeric …..
Antanas
Great capture
Linda Syms
Sorry Mundy,i spelt your name wrong my apologies.
Nikki Mulkern
This is amazing, love this shot!
Tina Miller
wonderful color…I love the eyes!!!
people/are/str...
amazing details !!!
Pete Chennell
the eyes have it!...awesome shot
sally williams
magnificent, as always
Stefan Trenker
amazing crop and wonderful detail! perfect work
Mundy Hackett
Thank you all for looking, to me there is really nothing more hypnotic than the eyes of a wild cat, regardless of size. There is a wildness and a hidden intensity that is so palpable, it is different than that of a bear or a wolf or any other family of Carnivora.
loramae
Those eyes…WoW! Lovely!
Robert Burns M...
beautiful an image of perfected art.
Nick Johnson
Perfect! amazing detail and perfectly composed.
aphoto4you
Mundy thank you for comenting on my sales….I share excitement…and looking at your success makes me happy….I love looking at your photos and its a joy…This one is another joy and smiles looking at it…you bring out of the animals that many take for granted…These friends of us who loves wildlife means so much to us…keep u ….great job!!
Mark Peterson
Another excellent shot…
daniels
gorgeous capture! db
velveteagle
Bravo.. Well said and Captured.. A winner again Mundy..
PhotogeniquE IPA
a real stunner – just look at those eyes
panthrcat
gorgeous!! I love the crop!!
Sharon Bishop
Wow…as sharp as those yeys
John Davis
wonderful eyes
Andy Harris
wow.. great close-up… love the texture of the face and the clarity of the eyes, hair and whiskers… great stuff!
Anita Donohoe
so expressive…
Wonderful shot, Mundy!
We have a very healthy cougar population on the ranch. They compete with the coyotes and bobcats for deer, rabbits and wild turkeys. Occasionally, they will take a calf from my cousin’s beef cattle. Fortunately, the cougars don’t come too close to headquarters!
cdwork
Wonderful photo and message
photoeyes
He is sooooooo beautiful, I wish I could be born again as a big cat.
Dharna
Beautiful image Mundy. I love the big cats.
whitecrow
Great framing and use of negative space. Excellent image.
GracefulShadow
Awesome pic Mundy.
berndt2
Great shot, great title!
hallucingenic
i love these animals n i love this capture!
micmac
Gorgeous earthy colors,magnificient picture.
Luuezz
awesome work!
Jeff Burns
gorgeous shot. amazing composition and those eyes are amazing
Julie Langford
Oh Mundy – you must stop this, there are only so many reaction goosebumps a person can take you know LOL. Your work just never ceases to amaze me, never. Breathtaking
Tiffany Dryburgh
Beautifully said, Mundy!
Tiffany Dryburgh
Sorry, there’s more!
I love the way the cougar’s expression seems to be one of appeal and sadness which just fits so beautifully what you have said about their plight.
Ok, that’s probably me being my usual extremely anthropomorphic self! But there you go!
DawsonImages
Excellent eye contact
Dan Cahill
Gorgeous as always Mundy. The eyes are amazing
Rick Lawler
The sharpness of detail is stunning. Great work!
BySilent
Lovely shot
Coralie Plozza
fantastic as usual …congrats on getting it on the feature page
Devika Fernando
oh my gosh, this is BRILLIANT! it has an almost human expression in the way it peers at us.
GabrielK
awesome image, and great description too
markwalton3
Very nice capture
Angelique Brunas
Beautiful again my friend!
Rosalie Dale IPA
Superb detail. A winner, this one.
Tanya Mc Geever
Couldn’t agree more. =)
I love the cougar’s sad expression. It’s beautiful. { Greatly portrayed! }
They may be killers – but they do what they have to do in order to survive.
x
mickeyb
amazing shot/
Zern Liew
Brilliant image. And couldn’t agree more with your post.
conilouz
this is awsome,,, great job
sasha
Just amazing
Hadassah
myeterious!!!
Christophe Testi
Superb shot!
Xenia Victori...
This is amazing! I like it!
cathy savels
Wow! What an amazing shot! Superb!
Cheri McEachin
Awsome shot here—-another one…
Douzy
I love the tight crop. great composition. The eyes are just glorious!
Wendy Slee
great framing, great message. Well done!
shadowzone
the stare is so intense, beautiful work!!
rainbowpromise
Wow, lookit those eyes!
kaylarenee
so wonderful!
Siamesecat
What a magnificent animal..
I ADORE it, this picture says it all… Siamese cat and kittens…
Elana Halvorson
Wow1 This is beautifull
AnnasArt
wow beautiful!!!!!!!!!!
Karen Fahey
I couldn’t ask for a more beautiful portrait of an animal I admire and care for. Your comments about their wildly inaccurate depiction in folklore is so right on. When I lived in Montana, on Swan Lake, we were once visited by a pair (yes a pair) of cougars who got their drink of water from the lake and moved back into the trees where they disappeared. All of our neighbors were terrified and insisted that baby horses (we had just had a colt born) were cougars’ favorite food, which is hogwash. In Oregon an annual event is to try to reinstate the law allowing hunting cougars with dogs, because they’re “killing all the wildlife and a danger to people.” Your other art piece, “Extinction is Forever” fits well here.
....Sorry, guess I got on my soapbox here. But I love these animals and fear they’ll be gone in fifty years.
Jessie Harris
This is so beautiful.
bobbymcleod
the processing on this one is fantastic mundy!
Pat Abbott
Mundy this is gorgeous!
whitetiger790
Piercing eyes! I love it!!
Margaret Barry
Stunning capture!
Jay Ryser
Great eye contact, love the black BG for him
ZacharyReed
wow, this is amazing
Cinthia Creel
Such beautiful creatures. I use to love lying in bed listening to them out in the desert at night. Now thanks to greed and cookie cutter homes, people have moved in and destroyed the desert, which is the animals home. Makes me mad and sad at once. Beautiful images.
Mundy Hackett
Thanks so much Cinthia, sad and true….
mimi yoon
there are communications with them through your lens…
Jonathan Dower
Wow, you can feel the emotions of the cougar…. and I wholeheartedly agree with you, even though I’ve never seen a real Cougar and I live in the UK. One of the most beautiful animal photographs I’ve ever seen.
Elizabeth Wold
Absolutely gorgeous. A fantastic portrait of such an amazing creature. I would love to see a couger in their natural habitat one day. So sad that they have such a bad reputation. I’ve read that they are a sign of a healthy ecosystem. If the ecosystem can support cougers then everything else is healthy.
Elizabeth Wold
Absolutely gorgeous. A fantastic portrait of such an amazing creature. I would love to see a couger in their natural habitat one day. So sad that they have such a bad reputation. I’ve read that they are a sign of a healthy ecosystem. If the ecosystem can support cougers then everything else is healthy.
Peace Mitchell
I like the way you’ve captured so much emotion with this expression, the composition adds impact too. Excellent shot.
Mandy Fell
what an amazing shot the eyes just suck you in.
Rosalie Scanlon
Beautiful, yet so sad, The panthers are really struggling here in Florida. They too are losing their habitat. Nice photo of this beautiful animal.
don quackenbush
great image, we have a basement that is devoted to cougars. partly due to where we went to school, but just as much because they are such majestic creatures.
well done
mlgkats
great eye contact , lighting , clarity, beautiful cat
Charl045
What an awesome perspective Mundy!! Congrats on making the Home Page with this..
Jennifer Woodward
Congrats of the homepage feature – much deserved!! :-)
Inishiata
Another gorgeous image Mundy. The eyes are so expressive. The detail is incredible.
Makes me want to be the dictator of the world and bring in population control – of humans.
Sheryl Kasper
Super work and amazing photo. Congrats on Home Page feature.
ECGardner
Way to go with the feature, Mundy! It’s more than deserving; love those eyes.
Rosalie Scanlon
Amazing photo. Love the eyes.
salsbells69
Congratulations on the HOME PAGE !!! What a wonderful image Mundy!
Eyal Nahmias
Mundy, congrats on being featured at the home page. It is a fantastic and commanding image.
mec1507
great eyes
PPPhotoArt
oh wow this takes my breath away!!!! well done on the home page, phew!!!
Mundy Hackett
Thank you everyone, nice surprise to be on home page! These eyes are perhaps the most expressive I have ever photographed on an animal, they are almost haunting.
Wanagi Zable-A...
awesome shot!
Teresa Zieba
Congrats on your feature. This is an impressive photograph.
AngelaFoster
this is such a fantastic capture, great lighting and detail.
Ryan Abboud
Nice Capture
Jan Cain
wow! awesome capture! i am blown away.
Gustav Nordlund
What an image! Great focus and composition :)
Kenny Gulley Jr.
i loooooOove the cougar, powerful shot and crop
Christopher Bi...
I came to thankyou for the ‘favorite’ but got side tracked. I love the crop here, very dramatic, makes me want to read mr cougar’s mind!
Elana Bailey
So very true…a fantastic portrait of this beautiful cougar. Well done to be on the featured page too.
amarica
Fabulous capture Mundy
mjaniceanne
Another wonderful shot, Mundy , all been said!
Glitter
now this is a stunning capture!!!!!
extremely well done!!!!!!
instant favorite!!!!
Sarah McKoy
Love this shot.
Lisa G. Putman
Gorgeous! Congratulations on having this featured in the Zoophoria group!
Alice Oates
Beautiful image, such piercing eyes…
Cathie Brooker
Wonderful detail
Ben Herman
soulful image.
Anthea Slade
Oh what beautiful eyes…stunning portrait of cougar.
Jonathan Dower
wow, this work really does deserve all the comments it has. And i’m commenting again just to say that this is one of the most beautiful animal pictures ever taken.
jdmphotography
Again a beauty the eyes are stunning really awesome work Mundy ! ................. (-:
amarica
so much life in his eyes, great capture Mundy
redhawk
This is a beautiful photo of a gorgeous cat. (FAV)
NautilusBlue
Amazing shot…Wow!
WayoftheWarrior
This says it all!
MuscularTeeth
incredible.
Mundy Hackett in reply to MuscularTeeth’s comment
Thanks mate, they are something to behold. When I worked on them studying their prey selection and habitat selection in southern Utah it was amazing to see the kind of area one male could cover in a day! We had them radio collared, one actually travelled several hundred miles in a week!
MuscularTeeth
was he hitching rides or did he have a segway ?
Helena Nelson-...
This expression is something else, theres reproach and question in those eyes. I agree and wish we could just keep our SUV’s, ATV’s, hang gliders, and generally noisy messy selves out of park areas and let the four leggeds live there in total isolation and peace. Your portrait is a great vehicle for promoting the respect of mother earth and all her creatures.