thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 6月21日 09時30分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto //
Lion snarling – As wildlife photographers we spend our lives seeking to protect the animals that we cherish so much. First in the mind of every decent wildlife photographer is the welfare of the animal but inevitably sometimes there can, no matter the intentions, be a negative consequence, often brought on by a chain of unexpected events outside of our control. I would love at this moment to say that this male lion is snarling at another vehicle but he isn’t, he’s snarling at the one that I was in. The male lion was with a female and they’d been mating over the course of that day but prior to this moment the female strolled casually over to our stationary vehicle and lay down beside it. Before we had a chance to move the male suddenly took exception to our unplanned proximity and made his displeasure known. I immediately whispered to our driver to back away but, in our door-less, windowless and windscreen-less vehicle my request was met simply with a ‘shh’! By now our driver was huddled as close to the gearstick as he possibly could be, hat pulled over his face and making zero eye contact with the incensed lion. I at least had the disconnect of my massive 600mm lens between me and the obviously furious lion but despite repeated pleas from me to back away I was at every point politely told to ‘shh’. Our driver later told me that, with his 16 years of experience as a guide and with 10 previous years of experience as a game ranger that the act of starting the engine, he believed, might have triggered an attack. Now, whether I agree with him or not is irrelevant. He was the trusted expert and he rightly was the one making the critical decisions but I must admit that I found the whole experience excruciating, not least because of a horrific feeling that one’s own presence was having a negative consequence. With other vehicles behind us I can only imagine what I’d been thinking if I was in one of them, watching a male lion show his displeasure to a vehicle and the vehicle not move! So what do you all think, stick or twist, me, I’d have backed away! Please do #followme at @andyparkinsonphoto. @ナショナルジオグラフィック

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