Lions at last light

A Kalahari pride photographed only in the twenty minutes after the sun is gone.

Savanna

Lions 01
Lions 02 Lion portrait dark bg · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000
Lions 03 Lion profile greenery · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/500 · ISO 2000
Lions 04 Lion at night spotlight · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1000 · ISO 5000
Lions 05 Fierce lion dramatic · 500mm · f/4 · 1/400 · ISO 1250
Lions 06 Lion profile mane · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 · ISO 3200
Lions 07 Lion dramatic lighting · 600mm · f/4 · 1/320 · ISO 2500
Lions 08 Two males at twilight · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1600 · ISO 6400
Lions 09 Two lions twilight narok · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/640 · ISO 1600
Lions 10 Three cubs in grass · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000

I skip the golden hour. The lions wake up when the color goes out of the sky, and the frames I want are the ones where the mane is a shape against almost nothing. Twenty minutes a day, twenty-eight days.