Lioness

First showed this in April 2009.  Fresh after a trip. (well.  not entirely accurate as I went in October 2008 but have never been a quick one to show latest images, LOL).  Why shown now.  Well, we have learned a lot together over the years.  Shared knowledge.  Pooled resources.  

Have changed the processing and framing.   Thought to reprocess today after our first lockdown day in the UK with these challenging times.  Just hope and pray for all.

Re the young Lioness, the image is part of a series that showed her increasingly under stress from the nearby tourists.  Slanted eyes, and yawn, quickly becoming a grimace and square shaped mouth showing the teeth.  All recorded.  If that's ignored, tail lashing follows.  Quickly followed by either an attack or false charge.  Either way, we moved on quite quickly.  Not there to stress or pressure.  

techs were the D300 And 500 AF-SII.  1/200 F5 and Iso 1000.

Please feel free to view uncompressed.

Thank you for looking and wishing you all safe times. 

One thing that I have personally enjoyed, reviewing images, is seeing small details that mean much not first seen.  Aka.  The jewel of saliva when viewed on the right of her mouth.  Little thing.