Gabriela Plesea
11-23-2019, 07:41 AM
Hello Friends,
Here's another image for you from the archives, this time two lion youngsters. But first a little ' story ' to go with it, I need to explain the title:w3
Some years back a lady arrived the pharmacy counter, accompanied by her cute two year old twins who both had flu. While the pharmacist was busy attending to them someone else pitched up and kept staring at the little ones... I greeted this man and asked how I could help but he was fascinated by the twins to such an extent that he could not take his eyes of them. I then waved to get his attention and eventually he turned towards me with a big smile, pointed out at the babies and said in Isizulu : "Awww...look here! Photocopy!!!" We all laughed and the babies were both smiling, it was such a sweet moment:bg3:
This image reminded me of that particular situation and therefore the title. Frame captured in August 2014 at a private game reserve nearby. My companions and I were in a game vehicle observing a small pride of young lions waiting for their mom, and with this image I tried to capture the expression of "longing" on their faces.
Hope you enjoy this, it has its shortcomings and the framing might be a little tight but that's all I could do at the time. We were off road, close to a drainage line and a little stuck in that particular spot, surrounded by cubs and did not want to move around and frighten them. And yes Mom eventually arrived after a few hours and walked right past me ( I was seated at the back of the truck ). Never been so close to a lioness in my entire life, and she looked huge... The interaction between her and cubs was just awesome, unfortunately some images are not great because of the vegetation and lighting conditions/shade. Nevertheless I do have a few frames to show you, some have been posted before as B/W conversions.
Hope you all have a wonderful week-end,
and here are the techs:
Nikon D4
Nikon 300mm F2.8
ISO 1250
F6.3
1/1250s
Kind regards,
Here's another image for you from the archives, this time two lion youngsters. But first a little ' story ' to go with it, I need to explain the title:w3
Some years back a lady arrived the pharmacy counter, accompanied by her cute two year old twins who both had flu. While the pharmacist was busy attending to them someone else pitched up and kept staring at the little ones... I greeted this man and asked how I could help but he was fascinated by the twins to such an extent that he could not take his eyes of them. I then waved to get his attention and eventually he turned towards me with a big smile, pointed out at the babies and said in Isizulu : "Awww...look here! Photocopy!!!" We all laughed and the babies were both smiling, it was such a sweet moment:bg3:
This image reminded me of that particular situation and therefore the title. Frame captured in August 2014 at a private game reserve nearby. My companions and I were in a game vehicle observing a small pride of young lions waiting for their mom, and with this image I tried to capture the expression of "longing" on their faces.
Hope you enjoy this, it has its shortcomings and the framing might be a little tight but that's all I could do at the time. We were off road, close to a drainage line and a little stuck in that particular spot, surrounded by cubs and did not want to move around and frighten them. And yes Mom eventually arrived after a few hours and walked right past me ( I was seated at the back of the truck ). Never been so close to a lioness in my entire life, and she looked huge... The interaction between her and cubs was just awesome, unfortunately some images are not great because of the vegetation and lighting conditions/shade. Nevertheless I do have a few frames to show you, some have been posted before as B/W conversions.
Hope you all have a wonderful week-end,
and here are the techs:
Nikon D4
Nikon 300mm F2.8
ISO 1250
F6.3
1/1250s
Kind regards,