First Place
Michael Nichols
National Geographic Magazine

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For our two-year lion project, we centered our work around the females of the Vumbi ("dust" in Swahili) pride, raising cubs in the difficult feast and famine of the Serengeti plains. We also focused on this black-maned male, one of two resident coalition males. The researchers called him C-Boy. Image made with invisible infrared light