Lioness Mom and her Cub

Lioness Mom and her Cub

First post of 2014! And I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a prosperous New Year. Today I am sharing a photo from the archives – from September 2010 to be exact, when I had the privilege of spending many hours with these lions’ pride in Nxai Pan, Botswana. This is one of my favourite lion photos in my portfolio. I was really lucky to have them “posing” like this – as most of the time the little cub was just a bundle of restless energy, much to the annoyance of the adults around it who just wanted to sleep.    The poor little one just kept getting itself swatted in the head by its aunts and then decided to rest near its mom.  For a few minutes …

Techs: Canon 550D | Canon 100-400 @400mm | f 5.6 | 1/125s