The bush absorbs a tawny lion in seconds. It never quite manages with a white one. We tracked this male through wet green forest after rain, and every gap in the branches gave him back — pale mane against all that dripping foliage. I framed him between the trunks and took what the gaps allowed.

Through the Forest
Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa · December 2022
1D X Mark II, 400 millimetres, f 5.6, 1/1000 of a second, ISO 12800