Author: Christian Sperka

Christian Sperka is a wildlife photographer based at Thanda Private Game Reserve, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Over the last 11 years, Christian has traveled the world photographing animals in wild game reserves of South Africa and Namibia, the jungles of Costa Rica, in Yellowstone National Park in the USA, as well as zoos in Europe and the United States. His work has been featured in wildlife magazines, in books and in many zoo publications. He actively supports wild cat conservation, working as a partner photographer for Panthera, the world's leading organization devoted to the conservation of all wild cat species (panthera.org). From 2009 to 2012 he has worked as the official photographer and photography teacher at Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, Tennessee, USA (nashvillezoo.org). Christian is also a qualified South African field guide. He now works as specialist photography guide on Thanda Private Game Reserve in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa (thanda.com).
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Eye Level

My Thanda Safari guests were taking some Lion images from the photographers’ seats of the Green Mamba. My specialized photography safari vehicle is ideal to get the perfect eye level shots 😊

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COOLING SYSTEM

The most important function of the huge Elephants’ ears is that of a cooling system. Pumping large amounts of blood through the ear’s many blood vessels, while waving the ears back and forth, helps these large creatures to stay cool 😎

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Happy New Year

I hope that all of you are as excited about 2021 as this Village Weaver. *I wish you a Very Happy New Year!*

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JUST BORN

This Wildebeest calf was born a few minutes before we arrived on this scene and it started running following mum a few minutes later.

Nature is amazing!

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ON THE MOVE

These young bulls were on the move after a refreshing mud bath. The walked by my vehicle in perfect iPhone photography distance 😊

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Silhouette

This morning on my way to work 😊 A long neck is excellent for silhouette pictures!

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Too much to eat!

This young Lion had eaten a bit too much on Christmas Day and tried to find a comfortable position to sleep with his full stomach. I had a similar problem 😊

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

What a year!

Undoubtably 2020 was the most difficult year for mankind in my lifetime and I really hope that 2021 will be better.

Especially for under-privileged people, who were living on the bread line before this disaster hit, life got extremely hard.

I am lucky to live and work at Thanda Safari and I am grateful that no one in my family and no one amongst my friends got seriously ill.

It was a privilege to regularly post pictures, videos and stories about wildlife which were appreciated by so many of you around the world.

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

… with a collage of some of the many pictures I was lucky enough to take in 2020.

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Was für ein Jahr!

Zweifellos war 2020 das schwierigste Jahr für die Menschheit in meiner Lebenszeit und ich hoffe sehr, dass 2021 besser wird.

Besonders für unterprivilegierte Menschen, die schon vor dieser Katastrophe an Existenzminimum lebten, wurde das Leben extrem hart.

Ich habe das Glück, auf Thanda Safari zu leben und zu arbeiten, und ich bin dankbar, dass niemand in meiner Familie und keiner meiner Freunde ernsthaft krank wurde.

Es war ein Privileg, regelmäßig Wildlife-Bilder, -Videos und -Geschichten zu veröffentlichen, die von vielen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt geschätzt wurden.

Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr 2021

… mit einer Collage einiger der vielen Bilder, die ich 2020 aufgenommen habe.

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