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Black-and-white photograph of a male lion walking head-on through long flowering grass, mane blown to one side.

He Walks

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022

1D X Mark II, 400 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 400

Straight down the middle, as is his right.

He came straight on through grass that reached his chest, wind pushing the mane across his face, not hurrying for anyone. Colour added nothing to this — the morning was flat and grey — so the frame went to black and white, where it always belonged. What is left is texture: grass, mane, and intent.

Part of Pumba, a series.