Wildlife Image of the Week for the week ending January 11th, 2013: Mark Wiseman

Congratulations Mark!

I have not posted in some time, so here goes. This is another image in a sequence I took some time back of a lion drinking at Cubitjie quap waterhole in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. This year is the 20th that i will be heading to the park and not many images of a Kalahari lion provides me with inspiration to return than this one. The light is something to behold and besides for Namibian light, I have not seen light like it anywhere else.
Camera details as follows:
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mk III
Canon EF 500mm LUIS
Aperture: f4
Shutter speed: 1/500
ISO: 400
The image was processed in LR4 and CS6 on a 15" MBP. Surface and edge masks were applied to reduce noise and sharpen.
Any crits and comments most welcome.
Best wishes, Mark.

Wildlife Image of the Week for the week ending January 11th, 2013: Mark Wiseman - Another lion drinking