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Mark, I'd be very happy with all those nicely lit eyes and to have all 4 tongues out as well! The lion on the right looks like it needs a good feed. Look forward to seeing the brown hyaenas.
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Mark - this is my favorite of your recent lion posts. Nice light, color, eye contact and having all the tongues out is just great. Well done.
TFS,
Rachel
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Mark,
Wonderful moment, I have never seen Lions doing this nearby, so I am extremely jealous
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Hey Mark
I was waiting for this, Wow I am also so so green
Great image Mark, love all those open eyes and tight crop works very nicely. I look foward to the Brown hyena pictures.
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Simply great. Great angle of light and camera relationship to light and subject. All four with tongues in water. No problem that left one is looking across, at least eye is not closed. Perfect crop I'd say. Love ie, much more than "yet another lion/leopard portrait".
Tom
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Hi all,
Thanks to Morkel,Tom, Vivaldo,Ken, Rachel and Hilary for taking the time to comment. Thank you for your comments, they are gratefully appreciated.
To Morkel, I think the eye contact and the tongues in unison is enough action to draw the eye away from the rocks in the foreground. The waterhole at Polentswa was broken and Brent has changed it to a new location. I am sure you will be pleased when you see the runoff will lead to a more natural image with animals drinking from the fresh water that they prefer from the excess water that flows from the tanks.
Best wishes,
Mark.
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Mark Wiseman
To Morkel, I think the eye contact and the tongues in unison is enough action to draw the eye away from the rocks in the foreground.
Mark.
I fully agree. My comment was intended in the spirit of: "If there's anything I would change in a perfect world and having the chance to photograph this again" 
Interesting notes on the waterhole as I've never camped at Polentswa and only know the "old" waterhole from parking there late in the morning after coming from Nossob.
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Last edited by Marc Mol; 01-23-2012 at 06:12 PM.
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Very nice moment captured very well.
Tongues and eye contact. very nice.
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Hi Mark,
Brilliant image with eye contact and tongue out.
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Lovely image, crop works well, lovely detail and as mentioned the eyes make the image for me. It may just be me but the blacks look a little flat?
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Another winner image from you Mark! Wildlife photography as it should be IMHO without gimmiks or nonesense! Bravo!!!
Last edited by Ofer Levy; 01-24-2012 at 04:04 AM.
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Wonderful to have this group together and well captured with eye contact and lapping tongues. Light and exposure is great. Well done Mark.
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Hi Mark, I like the image, but if you are putting this forward I would look at the the eyes of each animal again. The eyes have clearly been opened up to the same degree and depth and do not look natural. There are no shadows, variety of tones and depths of colours in there. It's things like that they will pick up on.
TFS
Steve
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Mark,
I would be most interested to hear what you have to say about Steve's comment, I have pixel peeped and can see shadows in most of the eyes and they certainly do not have the same colour in each Lion, nor do I see how you could glean this from a low resolution JPEG.
I am mystified, I do hope you can resolve this.Could you let us know did you open up the eyes and if so how did you do it?
Cheers
Ken
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Hi Steve and Ken,
Ken you are correct. Steve, I have done nothing to the eyes and shadows. I processed this image following my normal workflow and have done no individual processing to either the lioness or the three cubs. As you see this image, is as I saw it in the bush. I processed the whole image and feel the image needs nothing more than that. Thanks for the comments and the help which is gratefully appreciated. I will attempt to do an image over the weekend, but my abdo is still sore following the laparoscopic surgery and I have been too active as it is following the surgery.
Best wishes,
Mark.
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Fine Mark, sometimes you have to question things as per Vivaldos posting. If I had not question that image which no one had picked up on, the result would have been totally different and we would have missed out on an excellent repost.
Thanks hope you get better.
Steve
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Mark,
Thanks for your explanation, I thought this would probably be the case
Get well soon.
Cheers
Ken
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What a sight , hands on winner here
TFS