A Male Lion at Sunrise, Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya

This is a photo of a male lion as he stops and looks in the direction of the rising sun.

This golden light is why we nature photographers try to be out there before the sun rises.  When I was at Gamewatchers’ Porini Lion Camp (Porini means “in the wild” in Swahili) in Kenya in early June we were awakened by the Swahili greeting “jambo” (“hello”) at 5:30 a.m.  We were then given a tray with a pitcher of coffee or tea and 5 or 6 cookies which would get us going.  We’d leave camp at 6:15 a.m. sharp and be looking for wildlife as we drove away.  At around 8:00 a.m. we’d stop for a nice hot bush breakfast.  This male lion was photographed at 7:05 a.m.

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