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    A lioness & cub playing around at the Mara, as if to discipline the little one!
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    That is what you call 'a cuff around the ear'

    I reckon you could put a blank speech bubble there and ask for captions .
    "I've told you before....we are called 'the king of the jungle for a reason. Now stop fooling around when photographers are present' "

    Joking aside, I think this is beautifully exposed image at peak action.

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    Nice behavioral shot and I like the 'fed up' looking expression and the action. I do wish for a better light angle but besides that I like this. The light looks nice and I like the clean BG. TFS

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    Hi Sanjeev - Nice action shot with good dof. In an ideal world perhaps more of the paw would be visible but this works too. I don't remember the sands/dirt of the Mara being so red but it has been a long time since I was there so I'll leave it to you.

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    Hi Sanjeev, I like the behavioural aspect here and the 'smackdown', but I think it's more of a playful gesture rather than anything else. Again the techs look about right, however moving the whole crop down would help the framing and give the subjects more room to 'sit' on, I think it's too top heavy. You don't say when this was taken, or the available light available i.e. sundown, golden hour... Thinking it's late on then I feel you could be about right as there is that 'warmth', conversely you can go another route, but it goes away too much from the OP. For me this is more morning (cooler), but you now have better separation between subject & the environment, but probably too far from the original scene. Be interested to hear more.

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    Steve, this was early in the morning approximately 7 ish. The light was golden & beautiful and they were on the plains having fun ( a pride of 20 lions!!!!)

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    Steve, this was early in the morning approximately 7 ish. The light was golden & beautiful and they were on the plains having fun ( a pride of 20 lions!!!!)
    Fine, the the OP looks good.

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    Hi Sanjeev -- A very nice moment and a nice theme image as well . I liked what Steve has done with his RP but would have opted for something between your OP and RP . Is this the Marsh pride of 20 lions ?

    A nice image though . TFS !

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    Lovely action shot Sanjeev!
    Nice techs my friend. Love the swat... You were quick to capture the moment - very well done

    I like the colour of the subjects, or rather warmth. I might consider reducing the reds in the FG, but you were there:)

    Nice DoF and sharpness, good detail too, a fun image and I really enjoyed viewing, let's have some more please!

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