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Frank Ginn's picture

The King

This is Ralph, the magnificent male lion at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Most days he just lays around basking in the sunlight. However, on this day, I caught him before it was nap time. He provided this calm expression for me to capture as if he had ordered a headshot session.
Shot with the Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 lens attached to the Nikon 1.7x teleconverter. Cropped and turned to black and white to help hide the flaws in my image, but I hope you still find it enjoyable.

Nikon D500
550mm · f/10 · 1/640 sec. · ISO 1600
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2 Comments

Frank, yes isn’t he and you did his headshot justice, great black & white portrait.

Thanks Paul for the kind words!