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Source: ‘I have been taking wildlife photos for over 20 years, but this has got to be my special moment,’ said Mr Dolpire.
‘I needed to work fast as you just do not know when they will move or just flop down and go to sleep. ‘This was just a unique, special moment. No one has ever seen or recorded such a special moment or possibly ever will.’
https://metro.co.uk/2012/08/16/chilled-out-lions-captured-relaxing-in-african-jungle-538687/
In the name of original fediverse content, here's a little of what I took last year:
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All in Tanzania, taken on this old girl:
They're unedited; I just exported them to avif with ffmpeg.
The most scared I got was on foot, in front of these guys:
Buffalo do not like tourists. Not at any distance. Our park ranger was casually nuts, in the best of ways:
And even he got nervous around them.
Anyway, my takeaway is that big cats are just... housecats. Unless they're guarding a cub/kill, they couldn't care less about tourists, and just lie around and do cat things pretty much like OP's photo.
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Really cool shot. Gives me the same vibe as the workers on lunch sitting along the beam in the skyscraper.
But why did you post it in 636x372? It's like posting a 144p video.
And metro forces you to accept cookies for personalised ads or pay to deny. Don't post shit like this here, at least add a link to get past that.
He does have his own website but it's sadly down because of exceeded bandwidth limit, so I'll try to get in contact with him to see if he'll be able to fix it. In the meantime here's a better link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/photo/resting-lions-tanzania
ngl i coulda gotten a picture like that in less than 20 years
F8 and be there
