He was looking right into my eyes as he came over the hill and down the road towards my camera. As "part of a vehicle," I was invisible to him. People invariably ask if it was dangerous to be in such situations as this. Lions perceive vehicles and their occupants as part of a familiar, non-threatening landscape, and pay no or little attention to either. There are more than 200,000 lions in Africa, and a good number of them, including this male, roam Zambia's huge South Luangwa National Park. I divided this horizontal image into three vertical bands – high grass, low grass, and gravel. These bands rhythmically echo the frontal view of the lion itself, which prefers to walk on the low grass, and moves directly on us.