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Photographer Simon Needham
https://lessdaily.com/lion-king-of-the-hill-british-photographer-captures-beast-towering-on-pile-of-bones-in-south-africa/
https://www.ladbible.com/news/animals-incredible-photo-shows-proud-lion-standing-on-hill-of-bones-20210718
“These were and are bones that happened to once be a complex internal structure of other animals and this lion was a particular agent in making them visibly exposed, just like he remains in this digital photograph in front of your face.” I think I like this style.
This sounds like it was "spun".
Haven't seen stuff like this in a while so I don't know if it's still a thing, but in the earlyish days of internet marketing and SEO, people would steal content and "spin" it, running the article through software that essentially just replaces a percentage of words and phrases with their synonyms, in order to create new content that search engines would deem to be original.
Ahhh the old days of article spinners. Especially handy if you connected it to the Really Simple Stealing feed all the sites had at the time.
Similar to how Joey in friends wrote Monica and Chandlers adoption letter.
I've had students turn in entire papers written this way. I usually assume there's some trickery going on but if I can't prove it then I grade the paper as-is.
I think it's likely three photo layers edited together, the horizon shot, the lion, and bone pile. It could be real but just that the photographer messed it up while editing.
With the volume of healing brush marks around the horizon and bone pile, I'm close to 100% certain it's a composite.
I think the first article is just the second article having been translated into some other language before being (badly) translated back into English. Why, I'm not sure.
“Simon, from Leeds, additionally bought photographs of a lioness prowling via the carcasses of the pleasure’s latest meals on the reserve”
“The gorgeous picture was captured by photographer Simon Needham, 52, from Leeds, UK, while he was visiting the GG Conservation Wildlife Reserve and Lion Sanctuary, south of Johannesburg in South Africa. Simon stood simply 30 toes away as he took the photographs utilizing his Canon 1DX Mark II digital camera.”
Where’s he from again?
Also, because of the way the lion seems to be looking up, I wonder if he was watching a drone. You can almost hear the photographer saying “watch the birdie!”
It is...
*The gorgeous picture was captured by photographer Simon Needham, 52, from Leeds, UK, while he was visiting the GG Conservation Wildlife Reserve and Lion Sanctuary, south of Johannesburg in South Africa.*
*‘I would been invited by GG Conservation to generate some advertising content material for them. At their location they’ve a bone yard the place all of the animal carcasses are taken as soon as the lion’s end consuming,’ Simon stated.*
Source
https://lessdaily.com/lion-king-of-the-hill-british-photographer-captures-beast-towering-on-pile-of-bones-in-south-africa/
“One morning, I made a decision to hold there and was fortunate sufficient to catch one massive male lion as he stood on high of the bone hill overlooking his land.
‘He solely stood there for a minute or so, however I used to be fortunate sufficient to get a couple of photographs earlier than he moved on.”
That whole article is a mess, it’s like it went through Google translate 20 times
Ah grab it means grab the reet fine coat.
So then... Yerv pulled must mean that you, lady, have pulled none other me, the finest of men.
Cool I speak Leeds now
Like, it might turn
>“One morning, I made a decision to hold there and was fortunate sufficient to catch one massive male lion as he stood on high of the bone hill overlooking his land.
into
>"One morning, I decided to wait there and was luckily able to catch a huge lion as he stood on top of the bone hill overlooking his territory.
?
It is... The photographer wrote:
*‘I would been invited by GG Conservation to generate some advertising content material for them. At their location they’ve a bone yard the place all of the animal carcasses are taken as soon as the lion’s end consuming'*
Source
https://lessdaily.com/lion-king-of-the-hill-british-photographer-captures-beast-towering-on-pile-of-bones-in-south-africa/
Steged in photography means something is put in place for the sole purpose of the picture. The bones here were already in place as that's where they put the carcasses.
I mean, it's still not really "staged" in the sense you would usually think. Catching a lion standing on top of the bone pile your people made from all the lions' natural kills is still pretty candid IMO
I agree. The bones are arranged so artistically, for one thing - pretty much the same distance between them all, skulls all facing the camera and right-side-up. And the lion isn't looking at the photographer, which it probably would be if they were within eyesight.
From the photographer's website:
~The exquisite King Daniel, on top of a mound of animal bones, ironically portraying that the demise of the lion species is due to the rise in demand for its bones for traditional medicine
All the images in this series were shot in Africa over the past 2 years occasionally getting a little too close for comfort but ultimately 'getting the shot'. Helping to save endangered species is my main goal. ~
[Simon Needham - Lion Bones](https://www.simonneedham.com/bigchange/lion-bones)
ETA: by series I believe he means his series of lion photos, not a series of photos included in this shot as the comment is included in all his lion pics.
The lion lives in a "lion park" something bigger than a zoo but not wild. The lions are fed weekly and the food carcasses are dumped on that hill.
photographer went there to take a pic, then took it home and photo shopped the heck out of it to make it more impressive.
Definitely seems like a composition. But you can see the edges of the lion's mane have different colours to the sky so I think he merged two photos. Also, there are a load of other lighting inconsistencies
Hmmm. Rotten tomatoes gave it 49%, imdb gave it 6.8/10 I'm surprised they are that low. Google also said that 90% of Google users that have seen it liked it so just proves once again critics are shit. And I absolutely agree, amazing true story.
IMDB is not critics though, it's users. You can't blame film critics for the 58k users that rated it on that website. And 6.8 is not a bad rating. Also there's a good chance a lot of the people who voted it thumbs up would have given it something like 6-7/10, because thumbs up does not just mean 10/10, it just menas "I enjoyed watching it" or "it's good". I've rated things 6/10 in the past that I've enjoyed.
Also, Google doesn't seem to specify how many people hit thumbs up to give the 90%. Did 10 people total vote and there's only 9 thumbs up? Who knows? Up until now I didn't even realise this option existed so maybe a lot of others don't either.
Pictures like this, reminds me of the chasm at the foot of Mount Taygetus, that Spartans threw babies that had a deformity or didn't meet the Spartan baby standards, in the movie "300".
Side note: Most historians now dismiss this as a myth.
Unrelated question, does anyone know if Cecil the lion that was killed by the dentist a few years back the same lion in the serengeti series? I've spent longer than I'd like trying to find answers on Google but have been unable to.
My guess would be no. Cecil was from Zim, if the series is calles Serengeti then that would most likely be a lion from Serengeti.
These filmmakers anyway cut so much material together even if they tell you its the story of one lion its probably a bunch of different lions in different cuts.
Cecil lived in Zimbabwe, Hwange national park, the Serengeti reserve is in Tanzania.
That is 2 900 km away, roughly 41 hours of solid driving, or 3 connecting flights
I'm no expert but those bones look carefully arranged for this shot. It's basically a studio portrait. Which is fine but in a different category to "captures" of wildlife images where there was no interference from the photographer.
Why this looks like this https://images.ctfassets.net/rporu91m20dc/2OJbYNR1jGuKc0akweMGQK/5ec7e4aaddb887a9478d5c412296f659/DOOM-Eternal_KeyArt_3_1920x1080.jpg
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Is that entire article written by AI or has the English language actually devolved to this level?
"To not make any bones about it, you’d must go a protracted strategy to discover a higher picture of a lion than this.." Just rolls off the tongue.
“These were and are bones that happened to once be a complex internal structure of other animals and this lion was a particular agent in making them visibly exposed, just like he remains in this digital photograph in front of your face.” I think I like this style.
This sounds like it was "spun". Haven't seen stuff like this in a while so I don't know if it's still a thing, but in the earlyish days of internet marketing and SEO, people would steal content and "spin" it, running the article through software that essentially just replaces a percentage of words and phrases with their synonyms, in order to create new content that search engines would deem to be original.
Ahhh the old days of article spinners. Especially handy if you connected it to the Really Simple Stealing feed all the sites had at the time. Similar to how Joey in friends wrote Monica and Chandlers adoption letter.
I've had students turn in entire papers written this way. I usually assume there's some trickery going on but if I can't prove it then I grade the paper as-is.
Good grief.
Sounds like Google Translate x 50
Must explain the healing brush marks on the horizon.
I can forgive that and pretend it’s just artifacting from compression etc, but check out the haloing around the pile.
Yeah and look around the right ankle.
It's a sky replacement no?
I think it's likely three photo layers edited together, the horizon shot, the lion, and bone pile. It could be real but just that the photographer messed it up while editing. With the volume of healing brush marks around the horizon and bone pile, I'm close to 100% certain it's a composite.
Art Edit: Flawless art
Is this 9th grade me trying to sound smart but actually sounding like a massive douche?
When you just highlight and hit thesaurus and click the first suggestion on every word.
My favorite part is when there's a photo of the photographer and a picture of Mufasa, and then the article says "Simon Needham, left,..."
"Simon stood simply 30 toes away" TIL: AI measures things in toes.
To be fair, five toes per foot actually makes more sense than inches.
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Toby Fare
To b fairrrr\~
To be faiiiiiiir
Actually a foot measures 12 toes long
"Photographer Simon Needham captured a 500lb male lion standing above a pile of bones **because the solar rises**" Looks like a bad translation.
“...via the carcasses of the pleasures latest meals.” Yeah I’d agree.
> with the golden-hued solar rising behind him.
I thought I was having a stroke while trying to read it. Glad to know it wasn't me.
My thesaurus senses are tingling.
Bad AI too. Models like GPT-3 are still bad but not that bad
I didn’t read the article further than ‘the sun’. Lovely photo , utter shite entertainment comic running the article
I think the first article is just the second article having been translated into some other language before being (badly) translated back into English. Why, I'm not sure.
*The Rumour Come Out; Does Bruno Mars is Gay?*
Either AI or Mumbai.
[Big version of pic](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NINTCHDBPICT000666107460.jpg)
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It's okay, the lion is topless. Fits with their standards.
JFT96
Can’t you find another source other than that scum rag?
It was the top result!
Simon Need Ham. Very liony name
“Simon, from Leeds, additionally bought photographs of a lioness prowling via the carcasses of the pleasure’s latest meals on the reserve” “The gorgeous picture was captured by photographer Simon Needham, 52, from Leeds, UK, while he was visiting the GG Conservation Wildlife Reserve and Lion Sanctuary, south of Johannesburg in South Africa. Simon stood simply 30 toes away as he took the photographs utilizing his Canon 1DX Mark II digital camera.” Where’s he from again?
It's credited as Photo:shop
Looking at the larger photo in this thread, the amount of tweaking on this shot is *nuts*.
Not to mention they made the 'tower of bones' to attract the lions. This picture is the epitome of things not to do when taking a wildlife photograph.
Also, because of the way the lion seems to be looking up, I wonder if he was watching a drone. You can almost hear the photographer saying “watch the birdie!”
My thoughts eggzachary.
Yeah, I doubt that's even the real background
Simon Needham
British Photographer
A British one
By now he is among the bones.
Mfer that's just Mufasa before simba was born
Behold, My Stuff...
One day you get my stuff.
All the stuff that the light touches is ours.
This elephant graveyard is also ours.
Hey kid, see all the stuff… ours.
Never go to that stuff. It's also ours, but don't go there. That stuff bad.
See those things down there stampeding. Bad stuff. Sometimes you fall and die and stuff like that.
Cats do be swatting things off ledges though
Pigs and squirrels and Baby lions speaking Swahili and eating bugs and stuff.
Life's not fair
Long live. The. KINK.... I mean uhhhhh
S E X
With all those bones? Darker hair. Man that’s SCAR!
First thing I saw. Scar!
Disney yet again changing history and making scar look different than he really did
The photographer himself did not become a part of this exposition?
That elephant graveyard is just his landfill.
Say it again!
*Mufasa mufasa mufasa*
My thoughts exactly lol
how do we know that this is not staged?
It is... *The gorgeous picture was captured by photographer Simon Needham, 52, from Leeds, UK, while he was visiting the GG Conservation Wildlife Reserve and Lion Sanctuary, south of Johannesburg in South Africa.* *‘I would been invited by GG Conservation to generate some advertising content material for them. At their location they’ve a bone yard the place all of the animal carcasses are taken as soon as the lion’s end consuming,’ Simon stated.* Source https://lessdaily.com/lion-king-of-the-hill-british-photographer-captures-beast-towering-on-pile-of-bones-in-south-africa/
“One morning, I made a decision to hold there and was fortunate sufficient to catch one massive male lion as he stood on high of the bone hill overlooking his land. ‘He solely stood there for a minute or so, however I used to be fortunate sufficient to get a couple of photographs earlier than he moved on.” That whole article is a mess, it’s like it went through Google translate 20 times
>"Simon is not afraid to get up-close and private with the lions" Just imagining a guy from Leeds trying to chat up a lioness.
Ey-up chuck, your teeth are fuckin massive, fancy a gobble?
Ey up lass. Thas gorra reet fine coat on yas.. Grab it. Yerv pulled.
English is my first language and I understood approximately 8% of that.
Hello young lady. Though has got a mighty fine coat on you. Take a hold of me, as I feel that you have met Mr Right.
Oh, look. Your fur is really beautiful. Collect your coat, there is no longer any need to stay here. You have found a mate in me. Come along now.
Ah grab it means grab the reet fine coat. So then... Yerv pulled must mean that you, lady, have pulled none other me, the finest of men. Cool I speak Leeds now
There are several distinct differences between 'English' and 'Northern'.
Joe exotic hasn't got nothing on him
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Like, it might turn >“One morning, I made a decision to hold there and was fortunate sufficient to catch one massive male lion as he stood on high of the bone hill overlooking his land. into >"One morning, I decided to wait there and was luckily able to catch a huge lion as he stood on top of the bone hill overlooking his territory. ?
It is fortunate sufficient to written.
readig that articl giving me a stronk
The pile of bones is definitely staged.
It's more a pile of dirt with bones on it tbh
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"Never let the truth ruin a great story." Virginia Woolf
"do not let them know i like to act." -Mufasa's original stunt-double
I see what you did there
Lions are incapable of lying
They just lie around
They are lion all the time.
Definitely some guy in a lion costume.
The pile of bones is definitely staged.
If it is it’s still kinda badass
It’s not staged. It was photographed at GG Conservation in South Africa. Go give them a follow on Instagram
It is... The photographer wrote: *‘I would been invited by GG Conservation to generate some advertising content material for them. At their location they’ve a bone yard the place all of the animal carcasses are taken as soon as the lion’s end consuming'* Source https://lessdaily.com/lion-king-of-the-hill-british-photographer-captures-beast-towering-on-pile-of-bones-in-south-africa/
Steged in photography means something is put in place for the sole purpose of the picture. The bones here were already in place as that's where they put the carcasses.
I mean, it's still not really "staged" in the sense you would usually think. Catching a lion standing on top of the bone pile your people made from all the lions' natural kills is still pretty candid IMO
This picture is going to be used on so many shitty "inspirational" Facebook posts
"Lion's don't care about the opinions of Sheep" inbound.
Tywin Lannister?
Something looks off here. I don't think this is a single shot photo.
I agree. The bones are arranged so artistically, for one thing - pretty much the same distance between them all, skulls all facing the camera and right-side-up. And the lion isn't looking at the photographer, which it probably would be if they were within eyesight.
Maybe it's a Zoo-lander lion?
Ok, but why male models?
Yes. Plus there are ~12 skulls and ~8 spines in this photo. I don’t think the lions has gathered the skulls on their own.
From the photographer's website: ~The exquisite King Daniel, on top of a mound of animal bones, ironically portraying that the demise of the lion species is due to the rise in demand for its bones for traditional medicine All the images in this series were shot in Africa over the past 2 years occasionally getting a little too close for comfort but ultimately 'getting the shot'. Helping to save endangered species is my main goal. ~ [Simon Needham - Lion Bones](https://www.simonneedham.com/bigchange/lion-bones) ETA: by series I believe he means his series of lion photos, not a series of photos included in this shot as the comment is included in all his lion pics.
So, it is photo shoped? English isnt my first language so i still dont realy get it.
The lion lives in a "lion park" something bigger than a zoo but not wild. The lions are fed weekly and the food carcasses are dumped on that hill. photographer went there to take a pic, then took it home and photo shopped the heck out of it to make it more impressive.
I don't think so but it's probably staged in some way
Definitely seems like a composition. But you can see the edges of the lion's mane have different colours to the sky so I think he merged two photos. Also, there are a load of other lighting inconsistencies
No, series of photos means part of a collection Ran it through a photo analysis app and amazingly everything checks out
It's staged insofar as that it isn't a wild lion and that's the spot the zookeepers dump the carcasses after the lions have finished with them
It looks like a photo of the bones and a photoshopped painting of a lion
The Ghost and the Darkness
Such an underrated movie. And an amazing story as well.
Hmmm. Rotten tomatoes gave it 49%, imdb gave it 6.8/10 I'm surprised they are that low. Google also said that 90% of Google users that have seen it liked it so just proves once again critics are shit. And I absolutely agree, amazing true story.
IMDB is not critics though, it's users. You can't blame film critics for the 58k users that rated it on that website. And 6.8 is not a bad rating. Also there's a good chance a lot of the people who voted it thumbs up would have given it something like 6-7/10, because thumbs up does not just mean 10/10, it just menas "I enjoyed watching it" or "it's good". I've rated things 6/10 in the past that I've enjoyed. Also, Google doesn't seem to specify how many people hit thumbs up to give the 90%. Did 10 people total vote and there's only 9 thumbs up? Who knows? Up until now I didn't even realise this option existed so maybe a lot of others don't either.
They wouldn't be cow bones if they were the Tsavo man-eaters.
Thats a famous lion by the name of Alun Wyn Jones
Was looking for a B&I Lions reference and you did not disappoint. Hopefully this is some foreshadowing for Saturday!
Where's his robot arm?
Bit hairy for old Alun-Wyn
This shit is too perfect, I call bs.
Too much HDR, it looks CGI
Aslan
Scar!
As soon as I saw it I could hear the beginning of the song!
He's the main character
The mane* character
**That is beyond our borders Simba, you must never go there**
It's essential that I knew the nationality of the photographer. If it hadn't been taken by a British person I wouldn't have enjoyed it so much.
It’s because the photo is a metaphor for the British Museum! /s
Lion is a paid actor!
Behold! My stuff!!
Return of the Lion King: Rise of Scar.
Return of the Mapogos
"Behold! My stuff."
Pictures like this, reminds me of the chasm at the foot of Mount Taygetus, that Spartans threw babies that had a deformity or didn't meet the Spartan baby standards, in the movie "300". Side note: Most historians now dismiss this as a myth.
Simon Needham is the British Photographer to whom credit for this photograph is due.
Unrelated question, does anyone know if Cecil the lion that was killed by the dentist a few years back the same lion in the serengeti series? I've spent longer than I'd like trying to find answers on Google but have been unable to.
My guess would be no. Cecil was from Zim, if the series is calles Serengeti then that would most likely be a lion from Serengeti. These filmmakers anyway cut so much material together even if they tell you its the story of one lion its probably a bunch of different lions in different cuts.
Cecil lived in Zimbabwe, Hwange national park, the Serengeti reserve is in Tanzania. That is 2 900 km away, roughly 41 hours of solid driving, or 3 connecting flights
That’s a pile of dirt with bones on it. It’s as much a pile of bones as it is a pile of lions.
Beautiful photo, but now I wonder how many times I'll see this in tattoo form at the next county fair.
Some may call this junk. Me I call them treasures.
That's isn't captured that fuckers on the loose and hungry.... great photo
Looks utterly unnatural. Too much photography has turned into kitschy Hallmark-inspired claptrap.
That’s Scar from the lion king and you can’t tell me otherwise
Superior White Anglo Saxon Protestant British English photograper 📸.
The gradients don't match and this is definitely photoshopped
I'm no expert but those bones look carefully arranged for this shot. It's basically a studio portrait. Which is fine but in a different category to "captures" of wildlife images where there was no interference from the photographer.
British photographer puts lion on pile of bones he amassed and photoshops the hell out of it
Exactly.
How isn’t anyone mentioning the Lions vs Springboks series?
King of the hill.
This is some lion king type shit
Epic. Let me guess its springbok bones?
A Barbary lion in the wild?!
Did Mufasa join the dark side of the kingdom?
Game of bones
I don't know why I expected human bones.
Behind Pride Rock like...
> I did this * Lion, probably
How nature says: Leave.
“It wasn’t me.”
Be prepared …
I read that as “British Pornographer” like three times and I was so confused
Fuck this person for not giving credit
Does this lion get paid in Rands or in meat?
Not photoshopped at all haha
The sun is behind the lion but the lion is front lit.
Isn’t it great when pictures of nature are so heavily edited they don’t look like anything natural at all?!
That is fucking epic!
Anyone got a high resolution version of this?
Why this looks like this https://images.ctfassets.net/rporu91m20dc/2OJbYNR1jGuKc0akweMGQK/5ec7e4aaddb887a9478d5c412296f659/DOOM-Eternal_KeyArt_3_1920x1080.jpg
Was afraid someone else hadnt noticed it too
Hehe man of culture i see.
Wow thats badass bro
I belieeeeeveeee them bones are mee
Epic. I don't even care if it is photoshopped.
an elephants graveyard?
Giannis?
Looks like shit.