Lion Cub - Welgevonden Reserve, South Africa

I’m back after my extended absence to move from Connecticut to Maryland. I haven’t touched my cameras since my trip to South Africa in early December and, before that, my trip to the West Coast in September. Looks like travel in the near future will be restricted due to the pandemic. Since I have not edited or posted many photos from 2019, I will spend the next few weeks posting some of them.

To kick it off, I will start with this cute lion cub that we spotted on our South Africa Safari in December. Our first class Rangers from the Nedile Lodge (John Richard Nott and Barend van Rooyen) were absolutely amazing in being the first in finding wildlife in the Reserve. They gave us so many great opportunities to capture outstanding photos. This one is one of my favorites. Our Rangers got us in the perfect spot to capture a lioness and some of her young cubs emerging from the dense brush. I was able capture quite a few of this cub and snapped this one just when he seem to look straight at me.