This is one of the intense sightings we had in the Mara Triangle recently.
It shows the dramatic final moments of a young wildebeest who decided to swim across the river on his own and stumbled into a small pride of lions who were lying in wait just for him. We literally pulled into the sighting, hoping to get some nice photos of the lions in the grass, when this happened - 20 meters from the vehicle. This photo is uncropped. I shot with the 500mm combo here to get closeups of the intense struggle visible on the faces of predator and prey.
The wildebeest put up a brave fight for a good couple of minutes...but alas its fate was sealed.
Techs:
Nikon D3s
Nikkor 500mm f4 VR-II
f8.0 | 1/1250 SS | ISO-1250
uncropped (well, it's at least 99% of the original image)









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, the Mara does tend to spoil one for these type of opportunities, well captured & nicely framed Morkel, would have wished for better light, but take what occurs.

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