nhoizey

@nhoizey@pixelfed.social

I’m a French self-taught amateur photographer. I like shooting landscapes of both urban and nature scenery, but also natural light people portraits, and wild animals. #photography #landscape #travel #fujifilm

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nhoizey, to Travel

“Hard manual work in the fields”

I shot this photo from a very shaky 4-wheel drive vehicle on a bumpy dirt track, so I made sure to have the fastest shutter speed by using my ƒ/1.2 lens…

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/hard-manual-work-in-the-fields/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/30000 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Cleaning the dust”

Dust is omnipresent in Kenya, and Kenyans take great care of their motorcycles, the main means of transportation at their disposal.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/cleaning-the-dust/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/10500 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Tetris”

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/tetris/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/14000 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“40°C? No problem…”

It is impressive to see these Kenyans playing soccer in the sun at 40°C, while we could hardly stand the heat even in the shade.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/40-c-no-problem/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2, 1/5800 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“If symptoms persist, seek medical advice”

Most stores in small Kenyan towns are like big advertisement billboards, covered with one single intense color and brand or product names.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/if-symptoms-persist-seek-medical-advice/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/22000 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“What are you waiting for?”

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/what-are-you-waiting-for/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 640, ƒ/11, 1/500 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Flooded gate at Lake Nakuru”

Lake Nakuru joined in 2013 the list of other lakes in Rift Valley whose water levels have abnormally increased endangering the lives of residents and the ecosystems around the lake.

Some lakes are recognized as Wetlands of International Importance, and all are Important Bird Areas, with several being within UNESCO-listed World Heritage Sites.

The lake level rises are worrying because of the destruction to homes, livelihoods, industry, and infrastructure, and loss of terrestrial wildlife habitat.

The effects on lake ecologies are a concern as flooding increases lake turbidity and dilutes the saline waters of alkaline lakes. Alkaline lakes like Nakuru provide unique feeding habitats for East Africa’s famous lesser flamingos.

You can watch a local news story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghZhEVS8dDM

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/flooded-gate-at-lake-nakuru/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/10000 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Black Rhinoceros in Lake Nakuru National Park”

Lake Nakuru is well known in Kenya for its rhino population, and it has one hundred white and fifty black rhinos to be seen.

Black and white rhinos naming has created confusion because both species of rhino are in fact grey… I hope I didn't make a mistake identifying this one as black!

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/black-rhinoceros-in-lake-nakuru-national-park/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/9, 1/140 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Augur Buzzard”

The Augur Buzzard is a large, stocky hawk, which usually perches in full view on the ground on a prominence of ground or on a perch (tree, rock, post,…) and is not shy, so that one can often observe it at leisure.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/augur-buzzard/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/11, 1/240 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Now you see me”

Named for their preferred proximity to water, the Common Waterbuck feeds on plants near bodies of water in various habitats, including savannas and forests.

These creatures are designed for protection from Kenya’s predators in several ways. Their eyes are situated on the sides of their face in order to maximize their field of vision. Their bodies give off a strong odor that helps to ward off predators as well.

Another notable trait is their long horns, which are sometimes used by males when fighting over territory.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/now-you-see-me/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/9.2, 1/60 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Grant's zebras”

More Grant’s zebras are in the wild than any other species or subspecies of zebras. Unlike Grevy and mountain zebras, they are not endangered.

Grant’s zebras eat the coarse grasses that grow on the African plains, and they are resistant to diseases that often kill cattle, so the zebras do well in the African savannas.

However, recent civil wars and political conflicts in the African countries near their habitats has caused regional extinction, and sometimes zebras are killed for their coats, or to eliminate competition with domestic livestock.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/grant-s-zebras/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/2, 1/9000 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“So, you're still ok for this?”

While many might assume that the birds are a constant annoyance to the majestic buffalo who carry them across the plains of Kenya, they would only be half right.

A classic alliance in the animal kingdom is often seen in the African Buffalos. Birds often sit on the back of buffaloes, pecking in open wounds, picking vermin from the host's fur, and even looking deep into their ears and noses for food - typically a win-win situation for both.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/so-you-re-still-ok-for-this/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/11, 1/120 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“All quiet on the frozen Trälhavet shore”

It's not every day that you see the sea freezing. Here, it was in Sweden, a little north of Stockholm.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/all-quiet-on-the-frozen-traelhavet-shore/

📅 3 February 2020

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 10-24mm
🎛️ ISO 320, ƒ/4, 1/1400 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“What are you staring at?”

The African buffalo is not an ancestor of domestic cattle and is only distantly related to other larger bovines. Its unpredictable temperament means that the African buffalo has never been domesticated, unlike its Asian counterpart, the water buffalo. African buffaloes have few predators aside from lions and large crocodiles.

A characteristic feature of the horns of adult male African buffalo (southern and eastern populations) is that the bases come very close together, forming a shield referred to as a “boss”.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/what-are-you-staring-at/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/9, 1/125 s

nhoizey, to photography

“Wisps of smoke”

Photo session in studio organized by Virginie from the Photo Club of Draveil

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/wisps-of-smoke/

📅 6 October 2020

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 80mm macro
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/14, 1/250 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“The little one”

The Rhino Sanctuary in Lake Nakuru National Park was the first Rhino sanctuary in Kenya and is currently home to the largest number of black rhinos in the country. The rhino sanctuary was established in 1984 when the first two rhinos were introduced to the lake Nakuru National Park grounds.

Lake Nakuru National Park was chosen as the first Rhino sanctuary because it was already a bird sanctuary and it had the needed land for the rhinos to be relocated at the time. Also because rhinos need water every day, the presence of the lake made it advantageous for rhinos to make their life in the park; the vegetation in the park is also suitable for both the white and black rhinos, so Lake Nakuru National Park was and still is the perfect place for the rhino sanctuary.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/the-little-one/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/240 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Peaceful cohabitation”

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/peaceful-cohabitation/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/250 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Young olive baboon at sunset”

Olive baboons have a greenish-grey coat covering their bodies. Infants are born with a black natal coat that changes to the adult coloration as they age.

Olive baboons are widespread throughout equatorial Africa and are found in 25 countries.

Olive baboons live in a variety of habitats across their broad range. Baboons are generally characterized as savanna species, inhabiting open grassland near wooded areas.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/young-olive-baboon-at-sunset/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/340 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Mantled guereza”

The mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), also known simply as the guereza, the eastern black-and-white colobus, or the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, is a black-and-white colobus, a type of Old World monkey. It is native to much of west central and east Africa.

It has a distinctive appearance, which is alluded to in its name; the long white fringes of hair that run along each side of its black trunk are known as a mantle. Its face is framed with white hair and it has a large white tail tuft.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/mantled-guereza/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/9.4, 1/13 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“European larch trees dressed for autumn”

These European larch are an exception among their kind. They shed their needles in autumn, which turn yellow, red and brown before dropping. It is the only conifer in Europe to do this.

It is sometimes called the mountain oak, because of the exceptional wood it produces. Slow-growing, it is the most durable and strongest of the coniferous woods.

Rot-proof, it is used for boat design, roofing frames, shingles and railway sleepers.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/european-larch-trees-dressed-for-autumn/

📅 18 October 2023

📸 Fujifilm X-H2s + 10-24mm
🎛️ ISO 100, ƒ/8, 1/50 s

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“Sunset on Lake Nakuru's flooded trees”

There are many lakes along the length of the African Rift Valley, which runs from the Red Sea in the north to Mozambique in the south. Kenya’s eastern Rift Valley has a string of eight lakes.

The Rift Valley is subject to ongoing plate tectonics and crustal movement that can affect the lakes. The recent rises, though, are directly associated with above-average rainfall. The lakes have been even higher in the past, and with rainfall in the Rift Valley Basin being on a rising rainfall trend, higher lake levels can be expected in the future.

Lakes Nakuru, Bogoria, and Baringo have risen to their highest levels in decades, inundating roads and building infrastructure, yet they also are not as high as they were in the early part of the last century.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/sunset-on-lake-nakuru-s-flooded-trees/

📅 27 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/3.2, 1/680 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Alone”

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/alone/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 320, ƒ/9, 1/300 s

nhoizey, to Travel

“Saddle-billed stork”

The saddle-billed stork, or saddlebill (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.

This is a close relative of the widespread Asian and Australian black-necked stork, the only other member of the genus Ephippiorhynchus.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/saddle-billed-stork/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/9.6, 1/450 s

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“Elephants grazing in Amboseli swamps”

Amboseli National Park is a national park in Kenya that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It is one of the best place in the world to get close to free-ranging elephants.

The park also has views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/elephants-grazing-in-amboseli-swamps/

📅 28 February 2019

📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/1.2, 1/26000 s

nhoizey, to animals

“A Long-tailed Tit in Sweden”

The Long-tailed Tit is called “Stjärtmes” in Swedish.

🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/photos/a-long-tailed-tit-in-sweden/

📅 5 February 2020

📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 56mm
🎛️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/950 s

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