Category: Lions

• Goodbye Clawed, Enjoy Savanna Heaven!

  

  “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when…

  Perla Copernik

  February 15, 2012

  Africa, Conservation, Lions, photography

  Africa, Conservation, Kenya, lions, living with lions, mara predator project, Masai Mara, photography, wildlife

• Falling in Love with Black and White All Over Again…

  

  “Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” -Karl Heiner My passion for photography began many years ago, too many to count, inspired by the B&W work of the great masters. Besides collecting portfolios by Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Amsel Adams and…

  Perla Copernik

  June 25, 2011

  Black and White Photography, Cheetah, Gorillas, Lions, Nature, photography, Technique, wildlife, Zoo

  animals in B&W, B&W, B&W photography, Butterflies, cattails, cheetah, lion, photography, rose

• The Majestic Lion: Royalty of the Animal Kingdom on Its way to Extintion in the Wild?

  

  Between August and September of last year the two lionesses of the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC gave birth to two litters of seven cubs between them. Since the cubs began to be allowed to go out to the exhibit along with its parents I’ve been dying to go to the zoo and spend…

  Perla Copernik

  March 6, 2011

  Conservation, Lions, Nature, photography, preservation, wildlife, Zoo

  lion cubs, lions, Nature, photograhy, Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park