#1 has a strange haze to it. #2 has some blown out highlights. I can't believe you got these in the wild...I would hope you were using a long tele!!!!
I like the intense stare of the cheetah in that first shot. (Looks to me like there's wire behind the cheetahs and/or they were shot through glass, so I presume that's why you put the word wild in quotation marks!)
Yeah it wasn't really in the wild... I took some good shots at the zoo a little while ago but realised afterwards that what makes a great zoo shot is when you can extract it from its captivity. As for the blown out highlights, I agree they are not favourable but the exposures right for the face.... perhaps a little dodging on the highlights ?
