These are three of my favorite images I took during another great stay at Pongola Game Reserve.
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Small
Tall
Large, Small and Tall
Live Show for Photographers
Today I did a live (online) show for photographers at Light Vision Art Q&A. If you would like to hear what I had to say (and see me :-)) go to http://sprc.st/a1nUF. My part in the show starts about 7 minutes into the one hour program. Thanks for all the participation and the questions.
Enjoy the show!
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Interview on Light Vision Q&A Show
I will be on my first Light Vision Art Q&A Show (Social Media Broadcast) on Saturday at 10:00am (CST), which is 18:00/6:00pm South African time.
Just click here if you would like to join the broadcast: http://www.spreecast.com/events/light-vision-art-q-a-christian-sperka
… and nothing like a little bit of drama 🙂 (Watch the video below!)
To strengthen the genetic pool…
What a joy to take pictures of a ‘new arrival’ after my return from Europe.
Thanda welcomes the arrival of a new male Cheetah, which originates from Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in the Western Cape. He is a spectacularly handsome creature and possibly the largest Cheetah we have ever seen. This male was introduced in an effort to strengthen the genetic pool at Thanda and this was done in conjunction with The Endangered Wildlife Trusts’ Cheetah meta population management programme. Many thanks to Sanbona and EWT for all the assistance and effort.
To help him to get used to the Thanda surroundings our new Cheetah will spend a while in a boma and he will wear a radio collar, to ensure that our wildlife team can keep an eye on him as he settles into his new home.
Pictures by Christian Sperka – Specialist Photography Guide and Resident Wildlife Photographer – Thanda Private Game Reserve
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Stunning
It is a long drive from Johannesburg to Durban, but there was some stunning South African scenery along the way – Now I am back on Thanda!
Bloody Face!
One of my favorite animal portraits – This Lioness just finished her Giraffe dinner (first course!) – The Lions must have killed the Giraffe just minutes before we arrived, judging by the color of the blood.
Contrasts
Warm – Cold | Rough – Smooth | Right – Left | Happy – Sad | Cramped – Spacious
A day of contrasts – Coming from the cold of a German autumn to the warm temperatures of a Pretoria summer – changing from the smooth ride of my dad’s Renault to my rather rugged Fortuner – moving from the right side of the road to the left – being happy to be back in South Africa and being a bit sad to have to leave my family and friends in Europe – enjoying the space in the Gautrain from Johannesburg Airport to Pretoria after the 11 hour ‘torture’ in a economy plane seat, which is far to small for me:-)
Well, I love change and these contrasts are rather invigorating. The hot shower, a Peking Duck for lunch and my mum’s poppy seed cake for desert helps to improve the spirit even further!
From tomorrow Wildlife will be back on the ‘posting menu’ 🙂
PS: Today’s pictures show me on the Gautrain.
An iPhone travel journal – Day 9 – The Last Day
Wednesday – The Last Leaves
After an excellent lunch with my older brother and my parents in Switzerland I took a few Autumn images on the way to Germany. This tree is loosing its leaves fast as Autumn turns into Winter. And I will be leaving Europe in a few hours. See you next year!
An iPhone travel journal – EXTRAS
I have only published one iPhone image per day on my travel blog. Some of you have asked me if these are all the pictures I took. Well, here are some of the EXTRAS.
Today, I will be flying back to South Africa. I am a bit sad of leaving Europe and my Family already, but I am also looking forward to getting back to South Africa and home to Thanda. I am planning to return in May 2016.
I hope you enjoyed this short travel blog, which turned a bit into a ‘great eating in Europe’ blog :-). It was interesting to work exclusively with my iPhone 6 Plus. It gives one a lot of freedom (not carrying a lot of equipment and having great editing tools instantly available), but it also showed me the limitations. A good experience.
I will post the last pictures of this trip this afternoon!
Autumn Colours
Autumn Colours
Zofingen, Switzerland
Sempach, Switzerland
Sempach, Switzerland
Oberteisbach, Germany
Autumn Colours
Autumn Colors
The Moon
A 1954 Radio – For the Football World Championship
Oberteisbach, Germany
Oberteisbach, Germany
Flowers
Form the car, driving in Germany
Another Cow Portrait
Cows Stables
Restaurant Rebstock, Germany
City Hall, Laufenburg, Germany
Cows on a Field, Germany
The Muenster in Bad Saeckingen, Germany
Organ, The Muenster, Bad Saeckingen, Germany
My favorite dessert – not a light affair 🙂
New York Times
One of my images was published in the New York Times on 27 October 🙂
PANTHERA – Post on 27 October 2015
‘Pick up your copy of The New York Times today and flip to page A11 to read about a study co-authored by Panthera and published yesterday that unveils new findings on declining lion populations in key regions of Africa.
You can also catch up on the NYTimes article online @ http://nyti.ms/1POYIU4 and read Panthera President Dr. Luke Hunter’s explanation on the far-reaching impact of the catastrophic loss of Africa’s lions: “You start pulling at the threads of these big complicated ecosystems, and they start unraveling.”
Learn what Panthera is doing across Africa to protect one of our planet’s most celebrated species @ http://bit.ly/1N37dZM.
Special thanks to Christian Sperka Photography and Nick Garbutt Wildlife Photography for the generous use of their lion photos in this feature!’
