A perfectly timed snap of the leopard shows that it is almost completely camouflaged in the hills.
The big cat hid so well in the photo that the photographer had no idea he had captured the leopard until he got home.
His Abhinav Garg, 35, was visiting the Aravalli Hills in Jaipur, West Rajasthan, India, when he went looking for the animal.
He said he was visiting a temple when locals told him about the leopard sighting.
This amateur photographer, his day job as a web developer in New Delhi, has been waiting for hours in the mountains.
"It was truly the best camouflaged animal I have ever seen in my life," he said.
He added: 5pm.
``This temple is surrounded by the Aravalli hills, and [] the temple priests have told me many leopard sightings. When I arrived, a few villagers were discussing a leopard sitting on a rock on the hill opposite the temple."
Garg turned his camera to the rocks on the hill expectantly. But to my disappointment, I waited several hours and still couldn't find a leopard.
It wasn't until he transferred the snaps he took to his computer that he realized the leopard was actually in the picture.
"We also tried to see a leopard, but we waited a while and couldn't find it," Garg said.
``After I got home, I transferred all the photos to my laptop and started zooming in. I found a leopard resting on a rock that I hadn't seen before. See where the leopard looks like a rock in the lower right corner of the .
