Photographer barely escapes attacking lion after taking this stunning picture

In a near-death experience, a Pakistani photographer barely escaped with his life after capturing a spectacular picture of an attacking lion. Atif Saeed , 38, captured the breathtaking image at a safari park on the outskirts of Lahore in 2012 — and it has only now gone viral. [caption id=“attachment_2197144” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Courtesy Saeed’s FB page.[/caption] In an incredibly thoughtless act, Saeed left the confines of his car to take a picture of the lion, and he sat on the ground with the car door left open, only a “jump away from the lion.” However, the camera shutter alerted the lion to his presence and he went from the hunter to the hunted. “The feel of the aggressive, approaching lion from the camera is something that can’t be described,” Saeed said in an interview with ABC News _._  With the lion rushing towards him, Saeed managed to jump back in his car just in time and escape what could have been certain death. “It was a pretty close encounter,” he recalled to the Daily Mail . “I was laughing afterwards at the time, but I don’t think I’d ever be able to do something like that again.”