Hello Friends,
I found this image among my older folders and decided to share it with you. At the time I almost deleted it to make space but was quite taken with the eyes of the lioness and therefore changed my mind. Not sure it deserves a rework, it was shot in the harshest possible light and is way too overexposed for my taste. And kind of crunchy. This folder is full of amazing and dramatic scenes but the lighting conditions were not ideal. I positioned myself where the action was best but ignored the direction of the light, a lesson I shall always remember.
The lion pride was feeding on an eland female and its foal; the kill occurred during the early hours of the morning in the proximity of our camp site. There is a possibility the foal was dragged out of the mother's womb, we shall never know for sure. What we know for certain is that the eland herd we saw nearby the previous evening did not have any young amongst them and there were two pregnant females.
This is a powerful and skilful lioness we observed on a few occasions during our Kalahari trips, she has brought up a few generations of young and is the kind of girl one would not want to mess with. After dragging the kill for some distance (all on her own) she is busy lifting one of the eland's hind legs so that the youngsters can feed on the softer parts. I have seen a similar scene on Discovery Channel recently where a lioness was doing exactly the same in order to help her sister feed (her sister having had some injuries to her jaw).
So I hope you understand my reasons for posting this, there's much more where this comes from but I shall take my time to process them, I have better software now and learnt a lot from you all so hopefully I can do a better job in the future. You are more than welcome to pass a critique of any nature, it will help me process those images I am so kin to show you.
Techs:
Nikon D3S (used here for the first time, I remember reading the manual as we sat in the car by the water holes, camera arrived just days before our departure...)
Nikon 300 F2.8
ISO 400
F6.3
1/1600s
Wishing you a great week-end,







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enjoy.

Thank god for insurance. 

...Sold my D300S's though, the "noise makers" are gone...

