Wildlife Image of the Week for the week ending Sept. 13th, 2013: Edward Selfe - Brawl

[Daniel Cadieux]

Congratulations Ed!!

Here's a shot I took of two male lions having a short but brutal fight over a pride of females. The full story is on my blog here (http://www.edwardselfephotography.com/news.html) and rates as one of the most intense sightings I've ever seen in Luangwa!

I took a series of shots on continuous, but this is probably the best. I'd love input on how to take it up a bit more.

Canon 1D4, 500mm f4 + 1.4x converter.
1/1250s, at f8, ISO 400 (I nearly missed the whole episode from having the ISO down at 100, but just managed to raise it to 400 in time. Should have gone to 800 but just managed to get to 400 when the action started!).
Cropped to 16:9 using full width of the image.

Thanks for comments.

Ed

[edwardselfe]

Thanks!!

[Rachel Hollander]

Congrats Ed, well deserved.

[Loi Nguyen]

Congrats, Edward, awesome! Loi

[Steve Kaluski]

Excellent work Ed.

[Diane Miller]

Wonderful shot -- congratulations!

[Gabriela Plesea]

Love this image, certainly deserves Image of the Week, Congratulations Edward!!!

Kind regards,