Ben Wilhelmi

Aerials, Tanzania

 

A few mountains in northern Tanzania: Kitumbeine, Monduli and the volcano Lengai.

 

Salt details on lake Natron.

 

Sandbanks in the Luwegu river, southern Selous.

 

Bushfire in the Selous.

 

Near Mahale park. The fishermen regularly lay out their huge nets to be mended.

 

A small island just off Zanzibar.

 

Our camp in the Selous.

 

Some of the ponds and small lake in the Selous. A wonderful area to overfly.

Scenes in Tanzania

 

 

Peaceful cohabitation in the Ruaha park

 

When the rains come, laundry is much easier, here in Maasai land.

 

Another Maasai on a drying part of lake Natron.

 

Sunrise and Moon on Mount Meru.

 

A calao passes at sunset.

 

The river in front of our camp in the Ruaha. Visitors of all types are common.

 

Wildlife in Tanzania

 

My best leopard sighting!

 

Another great sighting, a first even, a palm tree and a lion. I can’t help linking a palm tree to the seaside, not to the far away savannah.

 

 

A gerenuk (gazelle de Waller)

 

 

A male greater kudu ( un grand koudou)

 

Egyptian geese and gosling. Just in front of our Ruaha camp, a troup of baboons attacked another goose family and ate up all goslings in front of the helpless parents. Sad.

 

 

I was standing under a tree looking for birds when a small noise made me jump. it turned out that black-backed jackal hadn’t seen me either till late, like 20m from me. I think it was our regular resident because he didn’t show any sign of nervousness… still quite a sighting that close when you’re on foot.

Aerials, lake Natron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B/W portraits, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Infrared picture, hence the funny foliage)

Random pictures in South Sudan

 

2 extremes…

 

The air forces in 2015 had only that aircraft, rented from Uganda. But then they had those stealthy Mil 34 or 35. They had arrived just days before I fled that charming country. This is my last picture, stolen as usual, there.

 

A common scene, a crazy bigot…

 

 

Same scam everywhere…

 

 

Civilians with AK 47’s. This man looked in charge of some bodyguards so I felt half safe but sometimes you get the tramp with blood shot eyes asking for favors…

 

I’ve lost count on how many different uniforms I spotted there. There 954 generals in the country. For 12 millions citizens! That’s more generals than all the US forces combined.

 

Santa in South Sudan…sometimes it got funny out there.

Wildlife, Tanzania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B/W portraits, South Sudan

Notice the scars and the piercing under the lower lip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brussels, street photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scenes in Tanzania