I am currently learning how to fly a new DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone. These are two of my first aerial images I took with the ‘new toy’. With the new 4K camera it is actually anything else but a toy. The image quality for video and stills is amazing. More to come soon …
I recently did a bit of bird photography … this was one of my favorites … more to come soon …
Picture details: Reed Cormorant | Location: Drakensberg, South Africa
Canon 1D Mark IV | Canon EF500mm f/4L | AV | ISO 1600 | 1/1000s | f/8 | 0.5eV | WB 6500K | free-hand
Many of you have realized that I did not blog a lot in February. I had two good reasons. First I had to have an eye operation to remove a small foreign object from my right eye (the surgery went very well :-). Then I took a while off to recover and to spend some time with my brother who visited South Africa.
We enjoyed our stays at the Oysterbox Hotel in Umhlanga – one of the best hotels anywhere – at the Cleopatra Mountain Farmhouse in the Drakensberg – rightly known for its gourmet cuisine – and at Pakamisa Private Game Reserve – next to Thanda Safari my favorite place in KwaZulu Natal. We also did a day-excursion to St.Lucia for a walk on the Indian ocean and an excellent lunch (at a restaurant named ‘Reef and Dunes’). These are certainly some of the best places KwaZulu Natal has to offer. What a special program!
Here are a few pictures which I took on our travels to Durban, Pakamisa, Thanda, St.Lucia and to the Drakensberg.
And now it is back to Wildlife on Thanda Safari 🙂
I have just uploaded a few more Lion images taken between 2006 and 2017. Have a look at http://www.sperka.biz/sg1 (total 76 images).
This is one of many species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg
Please contact me at info@sperka.com in case you are interested in publishing any of these images or if you would like to license any image for printing (for personal or commercial use).
These are some of the newly uploaded images!
World Wildlife Day 2017 – http://www.wildlifeday.org
‘In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught’ Baba Dioum
Pictures by Christian Sperka
#DoOneThingToday, #youth4wildlife, #YoungVoices, #EndWildlifeTrafficking #WWD2017 #listentotheyoungvoices
I am currently working on an update of my online Lion picture gallery (http://www.sperka.biz/sg1).
This is one of the images which will soon appear with many others on my gallery site.
Have a good week! Stay tuned for more updates …
During our last power failure – which lasted about 6 hours – I decided to leave my hot office and spend a few hours at the kuMasinga Hide and at Nsumo Pan on Mkhuze Game Reserve.
In the three hours I sat at the two hides I took mainly bird pictures. I thought I create a little bird quiz from these images.
Can you identify all 11 species?
Have fun and a good week!
I have just uploaded a few more Leopard images taken between 2005 and 2016. Have a look at http://www.sperka.biz/sg2 (total 74 images).
This is one of many species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg
Please contact me at info@sperka.com in case you are interested in publishing any of these images or if you would like to license any image for printing (for personal or commercial use).
These are the newly uploaded images!
I have just uploaded 74 more Cheetah images taken between 2004 and early 2017. Have a look at http://www.sperka.biz/sg3 (total 189 images).
This is one of many species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg
Please contact me at info@sperka.com in case you are interested in publishing any of these images or if you would like to license any image for printing (for personal or commercial use).
These are a few of these new images!
Recently a lot of people have asked me what applications I use on my smart devices (I got an iPhone 6Plus and an iPad Pro 12.9″).
I have used and tested many (hundreds) of apps for many different purposes (I own an iPhone since the original version came onto the market). Currently I have about 150 installed on my phone and I use about half of them regularly, the others not so frequently. Whenever possible I will use paid apps, because I believe that the creator of an app should be rewarded and most free apps have some serious shortcomings (either adverts and/or limited functionality). On my iPad I use some additional apps which make use of the Apple Pen.
Here are my favorite nine smart phone apps (for photo end video editing):
This is a picture taken with my iPhone and then edited with Camera+
And this is a video which I took with my iPhone and it was edited with VideoShop:
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