Love 'in-your-face' animal photos and this is certainly one of those. Tell me Geoff just what was between you and this rather powerful animal apart from a few blades of grass? This one of mine is obviously a composite http://www.fotothing.com/miclar/photo/3a7a0cfe3038739af7d70431e76bee01/start=175 but yours is right there and very real - marvellous capture.
Just space,but the guy was only young and up till then, had been used to people and its keepers,as he was orphaned when a baby.I believe poachers killed its mother.:-/
Well I dips me lid to ya - I'm not sure I would have been game enough to stand in front of this chap, at the very least it would have been a blurry pic from me shaking with nerves. Well done, a great photo.