Cannot quite explain how - and why - I fell in love with this lioness a couple of years ago. Maybe it is because I have known her for some time and it's so easy to recognise her no matter what the circumstances are. There's something about this girl that makes any photographer's eye turn towards her. She has a kind of power and ambition to live, she is not mean but there's a craving to confront death and a will to challenge any other beast in those yellow (or almost green) eyes. She is also an awesome mother to her cubs, and I promise to show you more images of her soon.
For now here's a simple image of her resting during the heat of the day. Almost full frame and I am afraid there's no more space at the bottom, circumstances did not allow me to compose better. Processed in LR and PSCC, cropped from the RHS a little.
Nikon D5
Nikon 500mm F4
ISO 3200
F7.1
1/1600s
Thank you so much for your kind comments on my previous images, I truly appreciate it. Critique very welcome, be it of a technical nature or otherwise
Hope you all have an awesome 2020, and I wish you good health and happiness as well as lots of great photographic opportunities
Warmest regards,