Late one evening, in Tanzania's National Park; Ruaha National Park, we came across a pride of lions: 1 male Lioness, the king, and 4 lionesses with another 5 cubs!
The cubs were hungry, looked skinny and were relaxing. Moments later, the mothers and father went hunting.
At the moment we stopped our jeep safari, the lions had absolutely no eyes for us. Perfect as far as we were concerned so we could collect undisturbed footage of these bizarre beasts in the wild.
The family situation we witnessed was one out of the lion king. A large family of lions going about their daily rituals.
This cub in the picture was especially playful and fortunately was able to strike some nice poses so we could capture some unique images of this.
Note especially the eyes of this lion. The colors Amber and the blue border show his wild instinct and hopefully this cub will grow to be a king one day too,
As a young boy, I sat on my bed listening intently to the stories my father told about the Dalamicio family. Soon this became the name under which I have been making my photographs since 2015. Starting on safari in Tanzania, I now fly all over the world.. Read more…