Amazing & SCARY pictures

Yikes! Brave, or stupid? ;) Because of his bravery tho, we have these gorgeous photos of nature at it's finest. Impressive bold destructive.

amazing shot....

Why did he have to ruin the shot with this awful retouching?

I think he deserved to be eaten. But then they'd have to kill the lion. So, I would rather see him admonished.

Hello? It is a wild animal and you had no protection. Lucky to be alive, I would say. No shot is worth losing your life over.

Oh sh**! Great shots!

WOW the lion must´ve thought the photographer´s really one of his preys, but it might also be he felt disturbed during his "beauty sleep" and got angry???

Atif, you have nerves of steel, and those are some of the most awesome big cat photos I ever seen. And at 70, and being a big cat fan, I have seen a lot of them. My encounter with a male African lion was much more of a fairy-tale nature -- I got hugged and pulled to the ground by a big guy that just wanted his chin rubbed and some cuddling. But those cats are insanely strong -- I would have been hurt had I resisted. BTW, he was not treating you as prey, or viewing you as inferior. He saw you as a challenger or a threat, and tried a preemptive strike. Of course, results would have been just as deadly if you'd been slower.

The guy took a chance. From the looks of it, it could have cost him serious injury or death. I bet he needed to change his shorts after that.

Don't know what a lion thinks he's getting when he attacks a human, especially with all that gear. How could we humans look delicious to him or, especially, a mountain lion. We are, at least taller than they are. Of course, we don't have the plain, old strength to fight them off. This photographer, an expert in his field, was smart. He escaped into his car. Unlike the tourist woman who opened her door or window on the car and was dragged out and killed by a lion. May she rest in peace, 'cause she sure did not have a peaceful death.

...and then he screwed it up with Photoshop.

the eyes are scary

Incredible expression! How come the background is so dark? Looks photoshopped.

That's the devil his face is formed in such a ugly way. I have never seen such a thing. It's like the book called The Lion never sleeps.

What do you think ? Photographer = fool

photographer : "ohh, i pooped...."

Balls Of Steel

it took balls.....magnificent!!!!!

The photo is more or less picture perfect. Beautiful capture, scenery, lighting and processing. Wow. Lifetime memory :)

Every so often we have a news story about a tourist being attacked (and killed) in Safari Parks. The lion is blamed and destroyed... wrongly

Mesmerized, I could not stop looking at that face.

Does he value a good photo more than his life?

Wow! This is amazingly intense. I can only imagine the surreal feeling and adrenaline rush that photographer felt after capturing that shot.

Is it possible to get this beautiful piece of art?

Amazing photo.

It's a nice story, but this is the typical face of a lion at the end of a yawn, nothing more.

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This animal have its life do that some arrogant jacka** could take its photo? Disgusting, and far from newsworthy.