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My big boy, in a BW version.
Shot from the first roll using my Praktina FX. It needs some cleaning and relubing, but some of the shots came out OK.
Explored #78 2013-05-14
Young Simba was one of the many cubs in a huge pride of Lions seen near Sand River in Masai Mara.
The pride had 4 lionesses, numerous cubs and one male Lion. The male Lion was sleeping so comfortably in a horrible position, I couldn't manage even one decent photograph of him.
I had to be content with the cubs playing and suckling on the their mothers.
Lion at Nairobi National Park, An amazing place to do our first safari. Within the city limits, it is still large enough to support a substantial amount of wildlife. Approximately 30 lions roam freely and hunt actively.
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Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
By Dereck Joubert, for National Geographic, in Duba Plains,
Botswana. Published August 5, 2013.
Lions are one of the most iconic animals on the planet. They play starring roles in the art of hundreds of cultures, in literature from history books to fairytales and are, of course, one of the biggest draws of tourists to the African continent. However, they are disappearing from the wild at an astonishingly rapid rate. Lions have disappeared from 90 percent of their historic range due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, retaliatory killings by livestock owners, loss of prey and other factors. They are extinct in 26 African countries. In the 1950s, the best estimate of the world's lion population was 450,000. Today, studies point to 20,000 to 30,000 lions remaining. We've lost 95 percent of lions in the last 70 years.
Though lions are such a big part of the human consciousness across the planet, we are at risk of the species entirely disappearing from the grasslands where they roam. These big cats are part of a much bigger ecosystem, one in which humans play a significant role. That role can be shifted from one that is causing lion populations to dwindle toward extinction, to one that creates strategies for coexisting with and protecting this important and magnificent predator. The loss, or even reduction in numbers, of lions in an ecosystem can set off something caused a "trophic cascade" in which the change in predator population has effects across the food web and ecosystem.
Buffalo would become dominant and, absent the lion threat, would be content to stay in one place, making them more vulnerable to existence-threatening parasites. Predators keep prey vital.
Financially, ecotourism generates around $80 billion a year for Africa, which feeds into local communities and economies. Few people I know would bother coming on safari if they knew they would not see the king of the beasts.
As those tourism dollars diminished, so too would the will of the people to protect and grow national parks to preserve wildlife. Poor, sick people are not conservationists.
Without lions, expect increased poverty, poor health, poaching, desperation, and greater pressure on Western countries to support Africa via aid programs. So saving these animals should be a global mandate.
© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
My niece recently adopted this beautiful kitten that made for a beautiful subject in my review of the Canon eF 35mm f/1.4L II. His name is Simba, and that seems appropriate in this image here. This also shows off the beautiful bokeh rendering, intense contrast, and beautiful color from the 35L II. I've added a little extra saturation and some dodging and burning on the cat fur to give a little extra pop. but this image is very similar to what came out of camera. I'm producing a series of videos called the 35mm Shootout! that compare a number of the current 35mm options, take a look here: bit.ly/1PiS3MV
Technical info: Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X (Use Code "dustinabbott" to get 10% anything and everything)
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We went out in the late afternoon to the Gursi Swamp to looking for the elephant herds. No luck on them, but we did find this Simba laying right at the side of the road.
Simbas playing in a riverbed - Tanzania. It is not for us to say that they feel less, enjoy less, than we do. It is not for us to say that we care about other humans more than they care for their own species. We are learning more and more about the vast sensory arrays of non human animals all the time. Let us not continue to make assumptions that demean or belittle their experience of life. It is the Great Spirit who placed them, and not our place to displace them. Let us think about the ways in which we are similar, and how to coexist with all of the children of Planet Earth.
