Rivers & Wetlands of Africa
Where the savanna comes to drink — Africa's water worlds by Ron Bensimon.
Life at the Waterline
Every safari story eventually leads to water. Ron Bensimon spends full days at riverbanks and seasonal pans, because the water edits the savanna down to its essentials: everything must come, and everything must take its turn. Hippos hold the deep channels, crocodiles own the shallows, and above them flamingos trade lakes in long pink ribbons.
The Delta from Above
The Okavango Delta is the exception to every rule of African dryness — a river that ends in the desert, fanning into ten thousand islands. Photographed from a light aircraft, its channels read like veins of glass. It is Ron's favourite single subject in Africa, one he returns to season after season.
Patience Pays Twice
Water photography rewards the photographer who stays after the obvious shot: the second crocodile slide, the hippo yawn at dusk, the flamingo takeoff that turns a lake pink. These wetland photographs sit alongside the rest of Ron Bensimon's safari gallery.