A Lioness and her 3 cubs watching the Sun come up.
It's one thing to have a Lioness on a Kopje (rock outcrop) @ Sunrise,
but to have all 3 cubs joining her at that opportune sunrise moment is a rare treat!
Just another beautiful morning in the Serengeti.
I had just enough time to still capture the Sun as a yellow ball due to the smoke haze/diffusion from grass fires that were around at the time.
And sure enough as it rose higher in the sky it blew out to a boring over exposed white sphere.
Eastern Serengeti_ TZ.
We're just minutes away from the Sun coming up off her right shoulder, we have an ample spread of dawn/diffused lighting. And yes, there was a large Acacia thicket
that blocked my framing on the right here and did the best I could to (mostly) avoid it.
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The big challenge here is to decide just how much shadow detail to retrieve on the family, as I wanted to depict that young cub scrambling over his mother as he soaked in that view.
Nikon Z9
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One of the cubs grabs an opportune time to suckle.
Cheers
Marc
Apr 08, 2025 at 07:30 PM
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