The story that goes with it.
My wife and I were in the Ngorongor crater Tanzania with our driver/guide photographing a pride of lions. Seeing a very large herd of Zebra in the background moving to a watering hole further along the track we decided to get to the watering hole before them so they would pass our vehicle very close and we would get some great photos.
The plan worked out well we had Zebra passing within 2 feet of our vehicle in front and behind us, I was standing in the row of seats behind the driver shooting from the pop up roof at the Zebra at the watering hole a little distance away. My wife was seated in the seats behind me shooting through a open window geting close UPS of the Zebra passing on there way to the watering hole. All of a sudden the Zebra started to bray loudly while running away from the watering hole, I knew there had to be a predator close by but could not see one until I looked down the track we had just come up. The Lion pride we had been shooting was slowly walking up the track towards us and Passed very close to our vehicle moving to the watering hole. They drank and then got into the shade of the bushes on one side of the hole, one lion climbed a tree laying on a branch the way Leopards do, belly on the branch with the rear legs dangling either side of the branch with a commanding view of the watering hole. We took some more photos and then I looked back down the track to see where the Zebra had gone and there was the last lion walking up the track heading straight towards our vehicle as she went out of view in front of the hood of the vehicle I turned to watch her pass along the side...she did not appear. I then saw my wife head, hands and camera out of the window photographing towards the front of the vehicle. I guessed the lion would be by the front wheel so I brought my head down to my open window and found myself looking at the top of the lions head, she was sat by my window. At that moment she turned her head looking straight up into my eyes, all I could see were eyes that seemed to drill through mine into my head. I slowly backed away from the window....to the other side of the vehicle only then did I dare take a breath. After that I saw her walking towards the watering hole as if nothing unusual had happened at all, at least foe her.
The data on my wife's photo. Tamron 70-300 @70mm distance to subject 1.4 meters I think I was in 18-24 inch range.
