Lions rest up to twenty hours a day, and this is what most of a lion's life actually looks like: head down in the grass, jaw slack, one eye kept fractionally open in our direction. I filled the frame with the head and left room on the right for the grass he was ignoring. He never moved.

Lion at Rest
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022
1D X Mark II, 400 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/250 of a second, ISO 160