Michael Wilkins
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A male lion walks across open grassland toward the camera, mid-stride, gaze angled just past the lens.

Coming Through

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

1D X Mark II, 278 millimetres, f 5, 1/250 of a second, ISO 100

Right of way, not negotiable.

He crossed the open ground at a working pace — not curious, not bothered, just going where he was going, which happened to be roughly through us. There is a particular calm to a big male moving with purpose; nothing in the landscape argues with it. I kept the lens on him until the angle ran out.