Shutterbug Photo of the Day

We’ve chosen Lorenzo Cassina’s touching images of animals many times as our Shutterbug Photo of the Day and he has delivered once again with this moody monochrome of a Florida panther.

“This is April, a young Florida Panther rescued and well cared at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida. A non-profit organization giving shelter, care, food, and love for life to animals in distress,” Cassina writes. “I am a proud volunteer bringing awareness of their silent work through my photography - www.flamingogardens.org.”

Cassina shot the image with a Nikon D80 DSLR and Sigma 70-300 mm lens at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 250.

See a larger version of the photo in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery here.

If you want to enter Shutterbug Photo of the Day, post an image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day Gallery and include your real name and some background on the image (how and where it was shot; the story behind the image; gear and settings used etc.) in the description field to qualify.

We will select one Shutterbug Photo of the Day image every month to run as a full-page feature in the magazine.