Those were cool photos, especially since they are black and white. But, this one's the winner.
This one is my favorite because the lion's face and position says: "ah, finally, a break from hunting, and a break from high expectations because i'm the king of the jungle." I just found that funny. The hair easily breezing back, the eyes pointed into the distance.
Rules of photography evident include simplicity (one subject, with a plain background of the ground and air), balance (the lion is in the middle of the photo, so it's immediately the focus), and Avoiding Mergers (the photographer got all of the lion, he didn't get a hair out of place, literally.)
He used a Pentax 6711 camera.
He took the photos because he wants to make sure there are plenty of animal pictures before mankind kills all of them.
He hopes to keep records of how animals looked by taking these types of photos.
He once said "I’ve always thought this something of a wasted opportunity. The wild animals of Africa lend themselves to photographs that extend aesthetically beyond the norm of 35mm-color telephoto wildlife photography. And so it is, that in my own way, I would like to yank the subject matter of wildlife into the arena of fine art photography. To take photographs that transcend what has been a largely documentative genre."
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