Ben Wilhelmi

aerial photography, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lake Natron, aerial photography, 10 min

 

Yes there are 10 min between the first and the last picture. This salt lake in the Rift Valley is a permanent surprise, ever changing.

 

 

 

 

 

Portraits in Sepia, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street pictures in Brussels

 

I wonder what’s on her butt.

 

 

The wives are inside that shop. Surprise.

 

 

 

Shot on digital Leica M8. Like my film M6, another great weapon for street photography.

street pictures, Dar es Salaam

 

Spare parts...interesting display.

 

Ad for condoms.

 

 

 

Tuk tuk being fixed without a jack, but with good arms.

 

 

Portraits in B/W, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

Street shooting, Brussels

 

Belgian waffles, the real ones! And the best ones of course.

 

 

Notice the sign on 2nd floor: a beer in a shoe. Real beer glasses are made like that too.

 

 

 

 

At least this woman couldn't sue me....

Kids in South Sudan, B/W

 

 

 

 

 

Paris, street shoots

 

 

 

These guys sell trinkets neat the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre usually. I wonder what the driver is thinking…

 

 

 

 

the famous baguette!

 

Portraits in the bush, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Sudan, kids

 

These 2 kids were enjoying the propeller wash offered by the Caravan ready and applying a lot of power for a soft field take off.

 

 

Funny Belgian colors.

 

Iron Maiden Tshirt and rasta hat, nice mix.

 

Yes, polite fingers… Pibor is just a dump place. Without the World Food Program center it would consist of a few huts and that’s all. I doubt the Indian peacekeepers taught them that. Satellite TV?

 

Street photography in Brussels

 

 

The real Manneken Pis is much smaller, like a real baby. This plastic stuff is used by many tourists, sometimes in weird ways!

 

 

Hard times for these lovers…

 

 

South Sudan, various pictures

 

Common scenery…

 

My airplane getting loaded. This is only the beginning of course.

 

 

 

Many old women can be spotted carrying a cross like this one as if their most precious possession.

 

 

 

Old fashioned man, he sports a spear instead of a common Kalashnikov.

B/W portraits in the bush, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

Some pictures in South Sudan

 

A national flagged hat

 

A regular sighting, especially for VIP flights…

 

Another common scenery: part of the welcoming party for VIP’s.

 

At a temporary USAid distribution center.

 

 

A fresh wound…not rusty yet.

 

A giant Ilyushin 76 drops passengers, dozens of them. The snag is that those aeroplanes in Juba are all set in cargo configuration which means there are no seats. For this side business serious extra money lands in the crew’s pockets, and various helpers and parasites….

Brussels, photography

 

Indiana Jones was lost in Brussels. He looks like the tourists I used to see in Tanzania.

 

 

 

 

Some pictures, South Sudan

 

 

 

Common scenery….

 

38C in average some months and this guy wears a woolen hat?

 

Street cleaner with stylish hats.

 

My welcoming committee in some airstrips….

 

Moving in the bush….

aerial photography in Tanzania

 

huge country, many types of landscapes, a dream for a keen amateur photographer…

 

South Sudan, various pictures

 

Paul Smith! What a trip for that shirt.

 

 

A Mi 26, Russian helicopter.

 

The famous long horns beloved by the Dinka tribe.

 

A body guard waiting for my VIP passengers.

 

 

Soldiers are everywhere, of course a civil war explains this.