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~ The small lion pride we were observing remained close together. Nevertheless their size was such that it was necessary to change lenses in order to photograph them as a family group. The manual focus Zeiss Apo-Sonnar T* 135mm f/2 ZE telephoto lens accurately rendered their coat color tones and the rosettes on their undersides. They became alert as a slender warthog trotted nearby, perhaps oblivious to their presence. One of the pleasures of being strictly an amateur shutterbug is no compulsion towards illusory perfection. These images thus reflect what we observed, as I recall it.