Orphaned
by Steve Templeton
Title
Orphaned
Artist
Steve Templeton
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
According to our guides who saw this pride of lions often, this young cat was an orphan, and the lioness behind her was her aunt, and had taken the responsibility of raising it. I wanted to take it home with me, of course. (My wife said no.)
My wife & I got invited to go on safari in Kenya with her sister, who was researching a children's book she was writing about the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, whose mission it is to rescue, raise, and return orphaned elephants back into the wild. It was a fantastic trip, and photographic opportunity, but unfortunately digital cameras were brand new, and my photography skills were not up to the task of taking perfect photos. I took about 4,000 pictures with my little Nikon 6mp camera, and threw over 3500 of them away when I got home and looked at my feeble efforts on the computer screen. But, man...... what a trip!
I hope to return someday with the equipment and skill sets that I now have. Maybe I'll only have to throw half of my photos away by then.
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July 5th, 2022
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