Found it on the web....



Do you have pictures of a bigger one ?

Noah would have been proud to have him on the ARK!

The lion is not that big!
I would say the hunter is a rather small guy!

B.Martins

Biggest baseball cap I've ever seen too!!

I hate those type of photos. Why doesn't he the whole way, and sit back beside one of those trees to make it look even bigger?

I don't think the hunter is trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes; hell there no need to, thats a damn nice lion.

Rather I think many PH's tell their hunterr to sit on the floor behind the animal rather than kneel... Sitting tends to position the hunter low in the picture and their legs tend to stop them getting right up to the animal concerned.

The PH is just trying to get the best possible picture, but sometimes there's a fine line between that and what amounts to camera fakery...

Regards,

Pete

I learned it a long time ago-if you want your whitetail buck to look huge, either take the photo from the back side of his head and slightly to one side, or lay him on the pickup tailgate and kneel down to shoot the photo at the same level or slightly lower.

Very good lion, 450-500 pounds if he's an ounce, but not enormous.

Photography is like black magic sometimes.

That is one large rifle in the picture too!

I think many of you are taking this type of display wrong. The hunter is placing the animal in front to bring attention to it and not himself. That's how I have always felt about such photos. I like his set up, it places the honor on the animal.

Anyone can judge the size of an animal by the items placed with it, like the rifle and the hat and on game with horns or antlers there are good reference points by using the ears, etc.

That is one thing about not bringing home the trophy but only photos. Man they can look like monsters. Use a 20mm lense and it looks great and relative to size with items in the picture. One of my first heads taken in Natal - Nyala looks like a monster in the picture but in real life (mounted) it is only 29 1/2".

Woodjack- Moses?

To 30ott6,all has been corrected.

That lion was taken with a pH who is a good friend of mine who works for TGT. While the lions' body was quite a good sized one, his skull was not much more than 26" if I remember correctly. The rifle was a Ryan Breeding (sp?)rifle in, I think, a .458 Lott or similar. Breeding's rifles always look "bulky"....The client is not seated far behind - he was kinda small
Several Ph's had passed that old boy before with clients because he did not have much of a mane. IMO he is a superb specimen of a "wild" lion...

He's a big bodied scruffy lion.