Ben Wilhelmi

Brussels, street pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA, on the road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lake Natron fly-over in 10 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street photography, Brussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aerial photography, Tanzania

 

Salt pans, lake Balangida, southern tip of the Rift valley.

 

Monik airtrip, lake Natron. That mountain is the active volcano Lengai.

 

 

Sunrise on the Indian ocean.

 

Luwegu river, southern Selous.

 

Drying Katasunga river, Katavi NP.

 

A dust devil on the burnt Katasunga plain.

 

A reef in the Indian ocean is  by fishermen and their nets.

 

In the Selous reserve, some floods from 40 years ago haven’t totally disappeared. The dead white trees are numerous to tell the tale.

 

Wildlife in Tanzania

 

An African skimmer offered its incredible show barely 20m away which is quite a feat…

and caught something.

 

The same skimmer later passing by a crocodile, which I hadn’t noticed while shooting, and an egret.

 

A female waterbuck is teasing the male. She never ran away, just walked a bit, seemed to wait a little bit, then just at the crucial moment, walked again. And so on…damn, where did I see this pattern before? (cobe en français)

 

Big boy in the mud.

 

Stealthy hippo looking for coolness in the river. That’s all there was to see, the nostrils. I wonder if I couldn’t be spotted through the murky water…

 

This giraffe seemed to perform semaphore with its ears. It also looks like a toothless old man.

 

There was some water a bit further but it might have been too brackish so these elephants typically dug holes in the sandbank and drank from the fresher water coming up.

 

A Verreaux’s eagle-owl. I swear I didn’t add that trashy make up on the eyelids. It reminds me the glorious disco years of the 70’s. (grand-duc de Verreaux)

Aerial photography, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tanzanian wildlife

 

The voice of Africa for its melodious tweet, the fish eagle (pygargue à tête blanche)

 

Wildebeests during the migrations, Serengeti (gnous)

 

A pied king fisher comes out the water after a vertical dive, notice the eye membrane is closed for protection (martin-pêcheur pie)

 

 

A tree hyrax in the sunset (daman)

 

The joy of bush flying…

 

Hippos congregate in a shrinking mud pool.

 

 

Some skin disease…?

 

Purple-banded sunbird (souimanga bifascié)

 

Stealthy hippo in the murky waters, only showing his nostrils.

Birds in Tanzania

 

Hamerkop on take off with a prized fish, late afternoon(ombrette)

 

A pied kingfisher comes out of the water after an impressive dive (alcyon pie). A white-crowned lapwing (vanneau à tête blanche) pretends he is not interested.

 

Fish eagle (pygargue à tête blanche)

 

Pelican.

 

Lucky with these 2 lesser-striped swallows (hirondelle striée) emerging together from the water after a low dive.

 

Beautiful sunbird (souimanga à longue queue)

 

Saddle-billed stork (tantale ibis)

 

This used to be a red-billed hornbill (calao à bec rouge) but lately it has been decided there was a specific species for Ruaha, and the name Ruaha is added.

 

Saddle-billed storks fighting for a fish in the beak of the flying one.

Aerials, lake Natron

 

Flamingoes nesting, young and adults together.

 

The western shoreline of the Rift valley.

 

More flamingoes.

 

Aerial photography, Indian ocean, Tanzania

I normally prefer to fly over the Selous reserve, lake Natron, Ngorongoro highlands….but I don’t mind island hoping either, especially around Pemba island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scenes from the bush, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aerials, Tanzania

 

Sea bottom, not very deep obviously. Pemba island, Indian ocean.

 

A detail of the Selous wetlands.

 

 

 

More of the Selous reserve.

 

Kipili Bay, lake Tanganyika.

 

Wildebeest migration, Serengeti.

 

Empakai crater, Ngorongoro highlands. Notice the mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru far away. One of those days with an exceptional visibility.

 

Elephnats in the Great Ruaha river.

 

Socialist traces in Zanzibar…

 

but colors are available too.