This sleek year old lioness cub is scratching and smelling a tree -- perhaps taking note of the other lions that have left their own marks and scent there. Using my multiple imaging feature, I held down my shutter button and shot at least ten frames of this cub as she went through her territorial posturing. I chose this one because of how she composed it for me – the angle of her back and head echoes the angle of the overhead branch. I also liked the tension crackling in the space between the cub’s chin and her paw. It energizes the image.