Ben Wilhelmi

Dar es Salaam, street pictures

 

traffic jams are notorious in Dar. A lot of people are trying to make a living alongside the queues….whether cripple people or street vendors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loliondo, pictures in an African village

 

 Loliondo Highway Patrol, Police is polisi in swahili.

 

 Loliondo jail. Not quite Alcatraz...

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Senator”….some local entrepreneurs have no fear no shame…I should make a post with such shop walls and interesting names.

 

 

Hotel!! One star? Not even an eclipse…

lake Natron, abstract art, aerials

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Paris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photography of a lion

 

 

 

 

Kenya, road side scenes

 

most of these pictures of  Kenyan road life could have been shot in Tanzania by the way. The differences are minimal.

 

 

same motorbikes, same miserable shops, same fruit or vegetable stalls….

“Macadamia People”….no idea what it means.

 

 

 

so many signs so cluttered, motorists juts pass by and miss most if not all of them.

 

 

scenes in a village, Tanzania

 

Loliondo to be precise, a bled north of Serengeti.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lake Natron, pictures from above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

street photography, Dar es Salaam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

African scenes, photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aerial photography, Tanzania

 

zebras on the run.

 

Flamingos on take off.

 

 

 

 

 

a dust twister, also called dustdevil.

 

 

 

 

street photography, Dar es Salaam

 

a helmet protecting the headlight....to give credit to this guy, Dar climate can be so scorching hot that a helmet looks like torture. Still no such excuse in Arusha and many riders do have a helmet though not on their clumsy head.

 

Traffic jams allow street vendors to operate quite far from junctions.

 

 

Cheap sunglasses.

 

 

who would pay 50.000 euros for  a BMW and buy fake parts in this dumpster?

 

 

common contraption for crippled people.

 

Dar has developed an official city transport system. Arusha is nowhere to be seen yet.

Mig 21/ J 7 in Tanzania

 

in Dar Es Salaam last week. J 7s Chengdu are Chinese copies of the legendary Russian Mig 21, here on a formation take off. A 4th plane was on schedule but didn’t make it.

the airspace was closed for about an hour. The jets went to the neighboring island, Zanzibar, for a show.

 

 

Drag chute on each landing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quite a show, I had never seen a Mig 21, not even on a static show. Quite a treat.

Aerials, Tanzania

 

 

Flamingos on lake Natron.

 

Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro.

 

 

People busy felling and burning trees, clearing space for a field

 

 

 

 

 

New York, street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tanzanian villages, pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lake Natron, aerials

 

 

 

a lone pelican and a flock of flamingos.

 

not a galaxy but a detail of some floating salts. A larger scene below.

 

 

 

Arusha street, photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aerials, lake Eyasi, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

people in the bush, Tanzania, pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aerials in rainy season, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wildlife photography, Tanzania

 

a chameleon in my garden….

a Battersby green snake lives in the same tree, bad news…

 

 

 

it is always amazing to observe a snake dislocating its jaws to swallow a prey much bigger than its mouth. Notice the victim is holding a branch with its hind leg and is bleeding.

notice again how the snake skin which is normally green with a yellow hue now shows some purple color between the dilated scales.

 

 

I usually spot hedgehogs and chameleons once in a while, then many birds like bee eaters, ibises, a howl, weavers, hamerkops, mousebirds, bulbuls…but a snake, that was a first.

Kenya, road side life, photography

 

 

 

 

 

Reading business names can be hilarious. “Comet Cyber”, “Best Shine”…modesty does not prevail around.

 

 

 

 

how does one make a living selling a few grilled corns a day?

lake Natron, aerial photography