lion mother and cub

We spent quite a while with a pair of cheetahs that weren't interested in anything other than catching a few zzz's. Then, as the sun started to set - and we had to head back to the lodge - we found a pride of lions that had just finished eating and were less than a mile away from the cheetahs. Suffice it to say that a lot of pixels were used in a very short period of time. This is my favorite from that encounter.

Normally I'll bump the saturation 10-15, but here I didn't make any changes. I'm not entirely pleased with color rendition - it was very, very warm just as the sun set on very, very warm subjects - but nothing I've tried thus far improves on doing nothing. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.

1D2, 500 & 1.4 TC, 1/250 & f6.3, ISO 400.

Rich