Love.

[Haim Ziv]

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Mark II 300mm f5 1/200 ISO100 FF.
Kenya August 2009.

Thank you for looking.

[Jay Gould]

I guess that is the way lions smile at each other!

[Morkel Erasmus]

nice one - I detect a green/blue cast, was it raining?? we had a sighting like this in the Kgalagadi recently, will post photos in due time :)
amazing how they growl at each other especially when finishing a bout...

[Harshad Barve]

Nice action here :D
Yep these Cats are very expressive and quite loud
There is color cast in image which can be easily fixed
TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Great action captured, and the expression says it all.

[Robert Amoruso]

Haim,

Good capture of the action. You can try a reverse s-curve to lower contrast if you wish.

[David Fletcher]

Robert took the words out of my mouth. :D. Thought this an exceptional capture, catching the grimace perfectly and thought to see what some TLC did. Reverse curve as mentioned. Then +5 on Sat. +2 on Selective color for whites, neutral and blacks. New layer, Blend mode set to Luminosity and three rounds of usm at 50%, 0.3 & 4. Flattened. usm at 10% 20 & 4. New layer via copy again. Blend mode normal. Magic wand and selection on male head and smart sharpen at 100% 1.0. reduced opacity to 80%, flattened. Hope you don't mind.

[Tell Dickinson]

Nice action shot, hope you filled the cameras buffer - I suppose we all look like that sometimes :o

Tell

[Haim Ziv]

Thank you all very much.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Dave's repost rocks it Haim. I would add to that a warming filter run at about 10%.