King of the hill images

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'One morning, I decided to hang there and was lucky enough to catch one large male lion as he stood on top of the bone hill overlooking his land. At their location they have a bone yard where all the animal carcasses are taken once the lion's finish eating,' Simon said.

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'I'd been invited by GG Conservation to generate some marketing content for them. Simon stood just 30 feet away as he took the images using his Canon 1DX Mark II camera.

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The stunning photo was captured by photographer Simon Needham, 52, from Leeds, UK, whilst he was visiting the GG Conservation Wildlife Reserve and Lion Sanctuary, south of Johannesburg in South Africa.