Momentum of a King

Photographer: Mohammad Murad

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1/3 • f/9 • ISO 50 • -.67EV • Canon EOS 1DX • 100mm • Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS II USM

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Taken in Tanzania on my very first journey to Africa, this image represents a decision made long before the trip began, to see the wild through motion rather than stillness! More than 90% of my photographs from this journey were created using slow shutter speeds, embracing blur as a language rather than an accident
Using a variable ND filter, I relied on panning and Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) in almost every frame, allowing the landscape to dissolve while the essence of the subject remained. Here, the lion is not frozen in time; he flows through it
This was not just my first African safari, it was the beginning of a personal visual philosophy where motion becomes emotion, and photography becomes a dance between intention and instinct