Show us your Lion Pictures

[madaboutcheetah]

This guy is fondly called, "Booker T" one of the two resident males at Kwando, Lebala (unfortunately, this guy has not been seen for several months - only his brother King Booker has been seen). I just learnt today that Booker T is a famous wrestler in the USA's WWE league.

 

Image from October 2013

[Ona Basimane]

Linyanti Marsh: I like to watch and photograph lions playing, but when they take to water, I can never thank them enough

[Sar4h]

@@Morkel Erasmus - your photography is stunning.

 

@@madaboutcheetah - how close were you to this lion? That is pretty awesome detail!

 

@@Ona Basimane - I really hope I get to see something like this whilst in Africa next month! Great shot!

[madaboutcheetah]

Thanks, Sarah .... Pretty close - but, this was with the 500mm. Will post another one soon taken from the 70-200 of the same scene.

[Morkel Erasmus]

@@Sar4h thanks for your kind words.

 

@@madaboutcheetah @@Ona Basimane great pics!

[JohnT]

@morkel, i'd love to meet Scarface - what presence.

if you have more shots of him please post.

 

@@Ona, lions in the water, what a privilege. Great shot.

[sanjay]

@@madaboutcheetah - Beautiful shot

@@Ona Basimane - Lion and Water always interesting to see. Unlike other Big cats Lions do not like it much

Edited November 2, 2014 by sanjay

[Whyone?]

Mana Pools, Monday 27th October 2014, late afternoon:

 

2R4C0328 by Whyone, on Flickr

Edited November 4, 2014 by Whyone?

[Game Warden]

@@Whyone? Looks like the brothers @@Safaridude and I saw: was one of them in bad condition?

[Whyone?]

@@Whyone? Looks like the brothers @@Safaridude and I saw: was one of them in bad condition?

 

Yes @@Game Warden, that's them.

 

Neither look to be in peak condition, but as you say, one looks especially poor:

 

2R4C0290 by Whyone, on Flickr

[Peter Connan]

Not much left in that cat!

 

Sad seeing them like that.

[Soukous]

The apple of his mother's eye

 

[MrB]

That morning in Okaukueyo Camp in Etosha (Namibia) we knew that Lions had been spotted at the Oliphants Bad waterhole. We went to the gates in good time before they opened. After a "race" to the waterhole we first saw some Lionesses playing around and the three males in absolute perfect condition. The most beautiful male Lions we had ever seen! We were lucky because after 15 min the Lions wandered away and we could´t follow them.

[Game Warden]

Lovely lighting there @@MrB

[MrB]

Lovely lighting there @@MrB

Thanks!

[KathBC]

Brothers strolling down the runway at MalaMala (2013)

 

 

[Sar4h]

Here's a couple from our honeymoon in the Maasai Mara:

 

 

 

[Peter Connan]

Excellent @@Sar4h, and welcome back! Hope you had a magnificent honeymoon, and that the happy marriage lasts forever!

[Wild Dogger]

Chasing the intruder at Kwara

[Whyone?]

Just prep'ing a few photo's for my overdue Mana Pools trip report and wanted to see whether or not this border style worked, so a slightly cheeky post, but they are lions!

 

2R4C0116 by Whyone, on Flickr

[Geoff]

@@Whyone? My 2 cents worth.

 

A border of that size is OK, especially if you want to put some text in the border but i think you could go with a much narrower border of just a few pixels (say 5 pixels max) that will suffice.

[Whyone?]

@@Geoff, many thanks for your comments - much appreciated, and I think you are correct, a narrower border looks better. I have also realised that the border is cropping the image - top of dead tree to right of the picture, so I need to fix that as well.

[Soukous]

This young lion came down to drink at Kanga Pan (Mana Pools NP) just after sunset.

 

[Bush dog]

Pictures taken in 2003 in Moremi, while we were at Xakanaka

 

[Ona Basimane]

This lioness was walking along the edge of a seasonal water pan hence the fairly uniform background. This was taken while I was leading a photography trip at Tubu Tree Camp, Okavango Delta.

Edited December 16, 2014 by Ona Basimane