My very 1st ones 

Summertime, Bochum, Germany

A Point & Shoot, I can’t remember which model

Communication Technician, not bad to have a technical background. Especially for the technical part of photography and for quick fixes of the car in the bush

Canada, hiking, canoeing, whale watching. With this trip the travel bug was deeply implanted. I used the old camera of my Dad, a Baldamatic II (semi-automatic rangefinder with a match-needle exposure system from 1960)

 As the old Baldamatic wasn’t really suitable for wildlife I needed a new camera: a Minolta Dynax 7000i. I bought it for a really good price 2nd hand.

A dream became true – Australia. Many trips followed. It is still one of my favourite places in the world

Mexico, Belize, a taste of a different world

Malaysia, deep into the Bornean forest in the search of Orangutan and Proboscis Monkeys

I started to study Biology @ Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

South Africa – triggered my love for the African bush and its wild creatures: At sunset standing in the middle of a herd of zebras numbering more than a hundred - you couldn’t ask for more

Of course I stayed a few days in the southern Kalahari with the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park as the highlight.

A Canon EF 300/4.0 L IS USM. I really enjoyed that lens and used it for many years to come

Canon EOS 10D - It was the 1st digital body which was affordable. Digital Age started with a 6.3 Megapixel sensor – many moons ago

I finished my Biology studies with a diploma in Animal Ecology and Nature Conservation. For my thesis I worked a couple of month in the Kalahari.

Indexing small mammalian carnivores in the southern Kalahari, South Africa (Wildlife Research)

Canon EF 500/4.0 L IS USM a game changer for me. Till today my favourite lens

Canon EOS 1D III – an amazing camera – great AF, fast frame rate, superb image quality and I loved the 1.3x crop factor. A pity that Canon doesn’t have a 1.3x body on offer anymore.

www.wildphotolife.com goes online

'Kalahari Dreaming' is a visual celebration of one of the largest wilderness area in the world, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in southern Africa.

The exhibition at the Omba Gallery, Craft Centre in Windhoek, Namibia accompanies the release of my coffee-table book 'Kalahari Dreaming'

Kalahari Game Lodge

The clients enjoyed my 1st African Wildlife Workshop at Okambara Elephant Lodge, Namibia

My Facebook page Bernd Wasiolka-wildphotolife goes online  

Conservation and the Environment in Namibia 

You can find me on Instagram, too

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 - People's Choice Award by the Natural History Museum

Wildes Namibia

 Premiere Multivisoins Show "WILDES NAMIBIA" am 06.10.2019 im LutherLAB Bochum