September 3, 2013 at 5:15 pm

Recreating Scenes from the Lion King While on an Actual Safari

by twistedsifter

 

Redditor and fellow Canadian Brandon Heuser recently took the trip of a lifetime to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. After returning to his hometown of Vancouver, he decided to rewatch Disney’s The Lion King. Throughout the film he caught himself saying, “hey I have a photo like that!”.

Feeling inspired, he decided to take stills from the movie and compare them to photos he had taken on his trip. The results were shared last month on Reddit. The accompanying 24-picture album on Imgur has been viewed over 350,000 times since. While not every shot is ‘identical’ (e.g., Rafiki is a mandrill not a baboon) the similarities are quite astounding.

Back home Brandon is the owner of Black Tie Rings, a small business that specializes in tungsten carbide rings.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is a large game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Mara Region, Tanzania. It is globally famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, and wildebeest to and from the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.

The Maasai Mara covers some 1,510 km2 (583 sq mi) in south-western Kenya. It is the northern-most section of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which covers some 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi) in Tanzania and Kenya. [Source]

[via Reddit, Imgur]

 

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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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Photograph by BRANDON HEUSER
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*Bonus*

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Photographer Unknown

 

 

 

 

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