Untold Publishing

04/11/2021

For me, wild life photography is all about the colors. Landscapes, nature, animals and the light in Africa are so amazing that I always feel that I miss something when working in monochrome. On the other hand, when the subject is a zebra, it is ok to make an exception. And than again, when looking at this photo, I feel like doing this more often. What do you think?

24/10/2021

Because of Covid and the travel restrictions, I wasn’t able to travel for a long time. But today I am grateful to be back in my beloved Africa. I spent a few days in the Ngrongoro Crater and it felt great to be back in this amazing nature. Ngorongoro is still my absolute favorite national park.

20/10/2021

Today is International Chefs Day! 👨🏻‍🍳🥳

To be a great chef is all about passion, discipline and paying attention to details. A real cook is an artist!

On this special day we celebrate Axel Janssens, our flying chef in Tanzania.

In the book A Taste Of Tanzania he shares some of his recipes. These are often great classics of world cuisine, but mostly pimped with some African flair and other exotic touches.

In order of appearance:

Ratatouille du chef
Carrot cumin soup
Rack of lamb with Ngogwe & chocolate sauce
Baobab sorbet

Bon appetit!

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09/09/2021

The Serengeti: beauty as far as the eye can see, serenity central. That was our first impression when we entered these iconic grounds. Upon our arrival, the sky was a deep ink-blue full of clouds waiting to burst. In sharp contrast, in 50 shades of beige, the plains were gasping for water. This immense national park is named after the Maasai word “serengit,” which means: the land of endless plains. They truly captured the essence of this wonderful place.
Read more about it in our book: Link in bio.

16/07/2021

WE NEED YOUR VOTE!

Dear Wildlife and Africa lovers! 🦁 🐆 🦓 🐘 🦏 🦒 🦩

Seven images from the book "A Taste of Tanzania" are nominated for the competition Africa's Photographer of the year.

Can you find our nominees in the gallery: https://africasphotographeroftheyear.com/en/entries/colourful-africa/ without peeping?
Can you find all seven?

Yes → You can call yourself a real 'A Taste of Tanzania' connoisseur!
No → No worries, you can take a sneak peek at the images in this post and search for them in the gallery of Africa's Photographer of the year. Give them all a ❤️.

Your vote is really important, and the vote of your friends and family as well. So, please share this post!

Note that every mobile, tablet, desktop and any other device that has access to the world wide web gives the opportunity to vote.
So, vote at your office, at home, on your phone, your laptop, desktop, and invite as many as possible to vote too!

Much appreciated! Let's do this!

Asante Sana

22/06/2021

Big cat, wild cat 🐆⁠⁠
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We were over the moon when we saw this leopard. This was partly because although they're rather large and very well represented in numbers, their camouflage and nocturnal habits make this gorgeous big cat one of the hardest animals to spot.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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21/06/2021

Ode to the pride

Lions are the only big cats to live in groups. The prides are close family groups where everybody works together to defend territory and hunt.
The typical pride consists of ten to fifteen lions, with several adult females, their cubs and up to four males, better known as male lion coalitions. Some lion prides can be as large as 40 members!

Lionesses do the majority of the hunting. Lions, on the other hand, have the well-known reputation of just "lion" around in the shade. But we can't underestimate their role. A male lion's entire reason for existing is rather simple and comes down to:
Reproduce, defend their territory against pride takeovers and protect their offspring.

17/06/2021

Hadza country⁠⁠
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After crossing the Kidero Mountains, we reached this special destination: Yaeda Valley, the land of the world's last hunter-gatherers. They are living unchanged, just as their predecessors have for thousands of years. ⁠⁠
We joined a group of Hadzabe men on their hunting trip. No rifle needed, they use bows and arrows. The expedition ended in zero kills. This is no supermarket where you pick your dinner from a rack. It is a rough and difficult existence. We could only have the most sincere and deep respect for the Hadzabe way of life.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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15/06/2021

Tarangire National Park is where significant numbers of elephants roam the lands. Surrounded by towering mountains and rolling hills in the distance, they walk the vast plains and stroll between the behemoth baobabs. This is the perfect, most beautiful place to observe those tender and very cunning creatures. If you don’t see them here, there probably aren’t any left. ⁠⁠
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14/06/2021

Game of thrones.⁠⁠
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Two tiny, ‘floofy’ lion cubs on a massive tree in the Ngorongoro. The rain creates an almost Vermeer-like painting effect. ⁠⁠
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10/06/2021

Great ball of fire ☀️⁠⁠🔥
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Acacia trees? Check. Gorgeous sunset? Check. You might think that a sunset is pretty cliché. Until you see one illuminating the Tanzanian savannah, covering it in a warm, orange blanket for the night.⁠⁠
Enjoy the eclipse today!
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08/06/2021

Look at all those stripes. I always find it hard to photograph a group of Zebras. Most of the time they are not that helpful in making a composition. This time they were. 🦓 ... asante sana 🙏🏼⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

03/06/2021

Dreamy orange light 🧡 Natron

One of my favorite places in Tanzania is Lake Natron. I really love the morning light over there. it's a beautiful backdrop to photograph flamingos having their breakfast. My Leica SL in combination with the Leica Apo-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280 were my perfect companions to witness these birds in their natural habitat.

29/04/2021

Vandaag verscheen er een mooi artikel over onze topchef Axel Janssens. Net voordat hij weer terug naar Tanzania vertrekt, werd hij gestrikt voor een interview in Nieuwsblad.be. De geprinte versie kan je nalezen in De Gentenaar.
En nog meer lezen over Axel en de roadtrip die hij samen met fotograaf Wim Demessemaekers ondernam, kan in ons prachtige coffee table book A Taste of Tanzania. Te koop in onze shop.

Sommige Vlamingen zoeken het geluk op een camping in Zweden of in een huisje in Zuid-Frankrijk, maar de Gentse chef-kok Axel Janssens (45) vond het in zwar...

15/04/2021

So proud to be chosen as the winner of this weekly photo contest by the one and only Travel Detective Peter Greenberg!

Congrats to this week’s winners, photographer Wim Demessemaekers and writer Stephen Walckiers! The photo can also be seen in the book, A Taste of Tanzania. It’s an image of Ol Doinyo Lengai at Lake Natron in Tanzania and is titled “Mountain of God.”   Walckiers writes,   “When we arrived...

15/04/2021

https://fb.watch/4TWyXa0aQ9/

In the weekly report on the latest in global travel news by Peter Greenberg, we were chosen as the winner of the photo contest! We feel so proud! Thanks a lot!

Minutes of fame starting at 14:41

The mountain of God (Ol Doinyo Lengai at Lake Natron) is an image from our book "A Taste of Tanzania".

Photographer: Wim Demessemaekers
Text: Stephen Walckiers

"When we arrived at Lake Natron, we might as well have landed in another dimension. We felt overwhelmed by this eerily beautiful, lunar-like landscape spotted with craters, cracking surfaces and hissing hot springs.

For a moment we considered diving in to find some relief from the incessant heat, but it turns out the lake's waters are highly acidic and extremely hot, so we immediately filed it under "bad idea."

Towering over Lake Natron is the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano. For the Maasai, it is a sacred mountain and the residence for their god, Engai. For a photographer, the ideal setting to capture the divinity of this magical place."

13/04/2021

https://fb.watch/4RkXlW7PUr/
The moving moment Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough met in person for the first time.

09/04/2021

"Umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu" ⁠
("Unity is strength, division is weakness")⁠
Swahili proverb⁠⁠⁠
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15/03/2021

“Sun glows for a day, candle for an hour, matchstick for a minute but a good day can glow forever.” ⁠⁠
Anonymous⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

05/03/2021

Serengeti named Best National Park in the world by Trip Advisor! We totally agree! 🌳🐘🦒🦓🦁🦏🐃🦩🐊🦛🐆🐍❤️

Serengeti National Park has been named the best national park in the world and positioned number One out of the 25 national parks by Trip Advisor.

03/03/2021

“It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.” ⁠⁠
Andy Mineo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

26/02/2021

We delen ook graag onze nieuwe News post vanop onze website geschreven door Stephen Walckiers. Zoals altijd, in zijn eigen pittige schrijfstijl met steeds een humoristische twist.
Uiteraard gaat het over onze feature in ColumbusMagazine, met de foto's van Wim Demessemaekers daar zijn we maar wat fier over. Maar scrol gerust eens door de vorige News posts en verwonder je over het feit dat ons boekenkind 'A Taste of Tanzania' ondertussen al heel wat aandacht heeft gekregen in binnen -en buitenlandse pers. We zijn heel erg blij dat dit project, dat eigenlijk begon als een idee van een receptenboekje maken, uitgedraaid is tot een boek van 355 pagina's waarin we al velen hebben kunnen plezieren met het relaas in woord en beeld over het schitterende Tanzania. Blij dat we mensen kunnen inspireren om in deze bijzondere tijden toch een beetje te kunnen reizen, al is het dan vanuit je eigen luie zetel met een boek. En wanneer het allemaal weer mag, is Dirk Janssens van Onsea House Arusha er om jullie dit waanzinnige land te leren kennen.

Even though just like the rest of you, we’re gradually climbing the walls and developing cabin fever stuck inside all the time, we do have excellent news! The one and only Columbus Travel Magazine have a feature article about our book “A Taste of Tanzania” in their February issue. And that is ...

25/02/2021

We zijn heel erg blij met deze post van ColumbusMagazine, hét magazine voor nieuwsgierige reizigers. Mooie sfeerbeelden van Wim Demessemaekers vanuit ons boek 'A Taste of Tanzania' om reizigers nieuwsgierig te maken.
Thanks go to Dirk Janssens van Onsea House Arusha too, voor het mooie verhaal in ColumbusMagazine, waarin zijn passie voor Tanzania zo mooi beschreven wordt. Wanneer het terug kan, zal deze lodge jullie erg graag en in stijl ontvangen. Snuif alvast de sfeer op in ons boek. Te koop in onze shop. Dream now, travel later. 🌞

24/02/2021

Heerlijk! We verschenen zonet met een prachtig artikel in de nieuwste editie van ColumbusMagazine! Dirk Janssens vertelt over het fantastische Tanzania waar hij sinds 2006 samen met zijn neef en chef Axel het Onsea House Arusha uitbaat. Het verhaal wordt extra kracht bijgezet door de beelden van onze fotograaf Wim Demessemaekers Het is een erg mooi eerbetoon geworden aan Tanzania én ook wel aan ons boek eigenlijk ☺️. En dat Tom Waes de gasthoofdredacteur van deze editie is, maakt het nog nét iets specialer. Wij zijn blij en fier. Dankbaar voor zo een fijne samenwerking met ColumbusMagazine.

18/02/2021

“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” ⁠
J.K. Rowling⁠⁠⁠

18/02/2021

“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” ⁠⁠
J.K. Rowling⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

05/02/2021

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
Phyllis Diller

Happy weekend!
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