The Marsh Pride of Savute, Botswana are famous and revered hunters. The difficulty with lion photography in places such as Savute is simply the ability to work the camera into a position below the lion’s eye level.

With longer lenses and greater magnification, the nasty effect of cameras angled downwards can be ameliorated. But we don’t like long lenses and if we can avoid them, we do. It tends not to offer the degree of emotion we are looking for.