I never expected to upload this at all because I never thought it existed until this morning. But after fossicking around in my Lightroom library today, I unearthed this one, in its raw colour state, and made this monochrome version from it. It always pays to go back over your old pictures, there’s usually something you’ve missed the first time around.

I took this in the Masai Mara, Kenya last September at the same time as this one here. In fact these two lions, undoubtedly brothers, had an almighty but brief scrap just after this picture, which resulted in the blood on the muzzle of the other.

Taken using a Nikon D700 with 200-400 zoom lens at 400mm, f/4.0, 1/250, and ISO 360.