wildlife – Page 118 – Christian Sperka Photography

2017-01-10

A look back!

It is custom to have a look at the previous year when the new one has just started.

For me it has been a good year. I enjoy my life and work in the South African bush as much as when I moved here in 2012. Since then I have led over 1,000 game drives, I have had over 1,600 Big Five sightings, I taught over 900 people my way of motion/wildlife photography and I have written over 900 blog posts.

Today I would like to share with you some of my favorite pictures of 2016: One wildlife picture per month and a bonus scenery picture 🙂 – Thank you for following my blog!

I hope you will enjoy my photographer’s picks for 2016 and I hope that all of us will have a good 2017!

January - Relax! — January 2016 – Relax!

February 2016 - Charge! — February 2016 – Charge!

April 2016 - Fight! — April 2016 – Fight!

June 2016 - Curious! — June 2016 – Curious!

July 2016 - An itch! — July 2016 – An itch!

August 2016 - Evening light! — August 2016 – Evening light!

September 2016 - Wary! — September 2016 – Wary!

October 2016 - Family! (My personal favorite for 2016) — October 2016 – Family! (My personal favorite for 2016)

November 2016 - Age! — November 2016 – Age!

December 2016 - Chase! — December 2016 – Chase!

Scenery 2016 - African Sky! — Scenery 2016 – African Sky!

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A helicopter!

No big story – just one of my favorite pictures – Thanda’s dominant male Lion watching a helicopter!

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A Dazzle of Zebras …

I have just uploaded 103 Plains Zebra images taken between 2002 and 2016. Have a look at http://www.sperka.biz/sg14

This is another new 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).

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Barbets

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If you like Barbets then this is the post message for you 🙂

I have just uploaded my Barbet images taken between 2002 and 2016.

Acaia Pied Barbet – http://www.sperka.biz/sgb13

Black-collared Barbet – http://www.sperka.biz/sgb14

Crested Barbet – http://www.sperka.biz/sgb15

These are three more new species galleries 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).

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Boy or Girl?

How does one identify if an Elephant is male or female by just looking at its head?

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Just over the fence …

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What do you see when you look out your window past your garden fence?

Well, for me most of the time it is the beautiful scenery, a nearby waterhole and often general game, like Giraffes, Zebras, Wildebeest …

But sometimes I see a cat strolling by …

This week it was a Lioness on her way to get a drink at the waterhole. I jumped into my car, drove around to the waterhole and got a few shots of her having a drink 🙂

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2016-11-25

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA – sorry that I am a day late 🙂

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2016-11-16

EYES!

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It has been years since I have created my EYES series of carnivore portraits. I love the strong expressions, especially in the feline eyes, when the color is removed from the rest of the images.

I am currently working on a new selection and this is one of my favorites so far.

Enjoy this Lion King, King of Lions!

2016-10-23

It has been a while …

You have not heard from me for a while. But tonight is the first time in the last two weeks that I have had a bit of time to myself to write a blog message. And that will probably be the last one until early November as we are hosting a big art project at Thanda Safari and I will be in the thick of it!

So here are a few of my favorite wildlife images from the last two weeks. I hope you will enjoy them!

PS: I am happy to report that we had over 30mm rain in the last few days. Let’s hope more is on the way …