WORLD RHINO DAY 2015
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500px
Some of you may know about 500px. This web-based photo community is known for the high quality of its image content. I joined 500px today and I will regularly upload some of my best images onto the site.
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I selected this – my favorite – leopard image as the cover image for 500px!
The best hour
I love this one!
The best hour for wildlife photographers to take images is the last hour of the day. And if the bush models cooperate then the images can be very special. This young Thanda South Pride Lioness was at the right place at the right time and looking the right way!
Picture by Christian Sperka – Specialist Photography Guide and Resident Wildlife Photographer – Thanda Private Game Reserve
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Chewing bones, parking backwards, fishing large and catching big!
A strange title for a blog?
Yes, but these images explain it all …
… a female Nyala chewing on a bone to get some extra calcium during the dry season.
… two Elephants wetting their bums by backing into a waterhole.
… a Seagull catching a very large fish!
… and a little Bee-Eater catching a ‘big’ Butterfly.
I really enjoy these unusual sightings – remarkably uncommon 🙂
Zimanga – Green-winged Pytilia (Melba Finch)
This is the last of the ten promised Zimanga photography blogs.
The image was taken at Bhejane Hide, Zimanga Private Game Reserve’s evening-light-reflection-pool-hide. More Zimanga images at https://sperka.info/2015/07/22/reflection-plus-zimanga/
I hope you have enjoyed these ten blogs with images taken at these very special photography hides.
Black Rhino, Leopard, Hyena and Jackal!
I saw them twice in the last week 🙂
What a Thanda morning! After spotting a Black Rhino on the savanna we watched two Leopards feeding on an Impala kill, which was high up in a tree. And we saw a Hyena ‘stealing’ some of the meat which had dropped from the tree onto the ground below. A small Black-backed Jackal waited for his turn to get a few left-overs from the kill. A great sighting!
The picture shows one of the Leopards on the kill.
Picture by Christian Sperka – Specialist Photography Guide and Resident Wildlife Photographer – Thanda Private Game Reserve
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Lion vs. Rhino 0:0
I really enjoyed taking these (even if the light was not good) 🙂
It is always exciting to watch animals interact. And some of the best entertainment is provided when Lions and Rhinos meet!
The Thanda guests enjoyed it when a few White Rhinos started chasing Thanda’s North Pride cubs. It took over half an hour before the dust settled. The Rhinos went to sleep in a tight formation and the cubs withdraw into thick bush up a hillside. And it was time for us humans to retreat for dinner :-). Lions vs. Rhinos 0:0
Below are seven images from this encounter at fading light. The quality of the picture is not great, but I think the content makes it worth wile to look at them.
Three of the young cubs keep an eye of the situation. Notice their wide open eyes!
One of the cubs got quickly out of the way, as one of the Rhinos turned on her.
All the sudden on of the…
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Zimanga – Warthog Detail
This is the ninth of the ten promised Zimanga photography blogs.
A male Warthog at Mkhombe, Zimanga Private Game Reserve’s morning-light-reflection-pool-hide.
More Zimanga images at https://sperka.info/2015/07/22/reflection-plus-zimanga/
Zimanga – Grey Heron
This is the eighth of the ten promised Zimanga photography blogs.
A Grey Heron fishing in the late afternoon light at the Lagoon Hide on Zimanga Private Game Reserve.
More Zimanga images at https://sperka.info/2015/07/22/reflection-plus-zimanga/
Zimanga – Pied Kingfisher
This is the seventh of the ten promised Zimanga photography blogs.
This Pied Kingfisher image was taken with late afternoon light at the Lagoon Hide on Zimanga Private Game Reserve.
More Zimanga images at https://sperka.info/2015/07/22/reflection-plus-zimanga/
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