Portrait of a male lion

I made this portrait of an old male lion in the Masai Mara National Park, Kenya. I was able to take an eye-level perspective, even though I was in a Land Rover and sitting about 6 feet above the ground, because the lion was at a significant distance and I used a Canon 500mm f/4 telephoto along with a 1.4x teleconverter, giving me 700mm of focal length. As the subject-to-camera distance increases, the telephoto lens becomes more parallel with the ground. That makes the perspective look like I was shooting from a ground-level point of view. The only thing I did in post-processing was decrease the color saturation a little. My settings were 1/500, f/8, and 200 ISO. I rested the camera on a bean bag within the vehicle.