Another unpublished image from my archives 🙂
HAPPY THANKSGIVING …
… to all my friends in the new world!
Energy!
After the recent rains this young Kudu was running around with great energy in the wet grass. It looked to us as it was celebrating the relief from the drought!
That’s in the tree!
A Leopard. This female was feasting on the remains of an Impala kill, which she had dragged into the tree. But she lost a large part of her dinner when she dropped it and a Hyena picked it up from below the tree. When I took this picture she had only one leg left. The image was taken with a 500mm lens :-).
Quite a few of you spotted the animal. Well done!
PS: Always look for branches which grow vertically down. They are usually a tail of a Leopard 🙂
What’s in the tree?
Have a guess – the answer will follow tomorrow!
Large, Small and Tall
These are three of my favorite images I took during another great stay at Pongola Game Reserve.
Large
Small
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!
Please share this message with any photographer friends for yours. They might enjoy the program.
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!)
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.
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!’
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