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Kalahari Lion in the Late Light

Close portrait of a male African lion with a full dark mane, alert and facing the camera, droplets on its chin, against a blurred green-brown bushveld background in warm late-afternoon light.

Plate XVIII · Plate XVIII · Sabi Sands, South Africa, December 2022Sony A7 III · 400mm ƒ/5.6 · 1/250 · ISO 1250

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A male lion, full-maned, stands at the edge of the bushveld in the last of the light, drops still falling from his chin and his amber gaze fixed on something beyond the frame. The 400 mm lens holds the mane's detail against a background already melting into dusk.

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