Here were two young lions grooming each other within a pride of about twelve, then one distant one looked up and wandered over and put his own head right between those of these two. And those two duly obliged and carried on grooming the new arrival. All I really wanted now was this one to look up, ideally right at me, and at the split second he did, I took their picture.

This fell at number six just outside my own top five pictures of 2010, which I’m posting later this week on the 29th of December.

Taken using a Nikon D700 with 200-400 zoom lens at 400mm, f/4.0, 1/250th, and ISO 400.