This picture of Your Shot photographer Vironica Golden’s son tells a very personal story. “After years of infertility I feel very lucky that we were able to conceive with the help of IVF,” she says. “Having children made me change the way I see the world; ordinary things become extraordinary in the eyes of children.”
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Looking at you

Posted on Aug 11, 2016 by Steven Vermeulen

Their gnarly horns make the buffalo appear so mean and aggressive, but their eyes tell a different story. Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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Pass the soap

Posted on Jul 16, 2016 by Steven Vermeulen

Linus, age three, enjoys a morning bath.

—Caption by Elizabeth Caldwell

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Those lion eyes

Posted on Apr 26, 2016 by Steven Vermeulen

When photographer Hannes Lochner set up his camera at a water hole in South Africa’s Kalahari, he tried hiding it from curious lions because “they might play with it or carry it off,” he writes. “On this particular evening, I was in my vehicle just as the sun was setting, the dust in the air creating a special kind of Kalahari light, and a pride of lions arrived. By repeatedly clicking the shutter, I coaxed the ever curious cubs forward.”

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