{"id":77301,"date":"2014-08-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=42f1ab44a5a2efc44472d0f5d4154392"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:56:37","slug":"two-young-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/two-young-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Young Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it apt to post something that is NOT a “wider-showing-environment-animalscape” for a change, to show you that I do photograph tight, close portraits as well when I am in the field.
\nI was privileged to spend some quality time with these two brothers in Etosha last year during a week’s intense photography and adventure with my friend Hans Rack.<\/p>\n

They were very cooperative models, and on my last afternoon in the reserve they posed very nicely in that soft glorious post-sunset light of Africa. The front-most lion was playing with a stick that you can see sticking up from the bottom of the frame. I love the repetitive poses here, and the earthy tones in the shot overall.<\/p>\n

Pretty much full frame, cropped a sliver off bottom to remove grasses protruding from the bottom and a sliver from the LHS for balance<\/p>\n

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Techs: Nikon D800; Nikkor 500mm f4 VR-II; f5.6 | 1\/200 SS | ISO-4000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thank you very much for following my work. Feel free to share with like-minded people!<\/p>\n

Morkel Erasmus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it apt to post something that is NOT a “wider-showing-environment-animalscape” for a change, to show you that I do photograph tight, close portraits as well when I am in the field. I was privileged to spend some quality time with these two brothers in Etosha last year during a week’s intense photography and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":2195712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-B3j2H2phahk\/U8L66RK5DyI\/AAAAAAAAaU0\/kSwuz5Q1ZT4\/s1600\/lion_males_1_Etosha_2013.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Two Young Kings","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[6182,2440,2623],"class_list":["post-77301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-etosha","tag-lion","tag-morkel-erasmus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}