Heritage Day

Today is South Africa’s Heritage Day.
My view on heritage: Learn from the past and help the children to build a better future!
What a week!
Last weekend I was very busy in the office and teaching photography at Thanda. On Monday I went to Pongola to get my car serviced and for a short visit to Pakamisa. On Tuesday and Wednesday I ran errands in Durban where a met a very cute puppy dog. Yesterday and today I played again catch-up in the office.
But, I still got a bit of photography done. At Pakamisa I took some pictures of Isabella working with one of her horses and at the Thanda House Waterhole (next to my home) I got some good pictures of Elephants, of Giraffes and of a young Lioness. I also shot some good-bye pictures of our young male Lion, who will leave the reserve soon for a new home. And in between I posted one of my favorite Leopard shots (taken in 2006) on Facebook.
So, here is my week in pictures. Enjoy them and the weekend 🙂
PS: As a bonus I added a short Thanda Elephants video – four times the regular speed!
The perfect look!
Many of you probably wondered why I was posting so little over the last few weeks. I was extremely busy at work and I had not much time to prepare posts. On the other hand I have collected a lot of material for future posts 🙂
Today I thought I share two of my recent Lion portraits with you. Sometimes it is not the photographer who gets it right, sometimes it is the model! Both of these cats got the perfect look!
Enjoy your weekend.


Celebrating World Elephant Day!
To the death …
… more about this spectacular sighting soon …


World Lion Day
Kingfisher and Baboon
I worked on my image library and came across two of my favorites 🙂
I hope you enjoy them, too!


Eat in the Ear!
Well done!
Many of my blog readers identified this correctly. Yesterday’s blog picture (https://sperka.info/2016/08/04/mysterious-housing) shows a Red-billed Oxpecker looking for ticks inside a White Rhinos ear 🙂
Have a good weekend 🙂


Mysterious housing!
What bird is this and where does it disappear into? – Have a guess 🙂



