Wim van den Heever’s Image
Wim van den Heever (South Africa) photographs this haunting scene of a brown hyena among the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town.
“With sea fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Wim chose this spot for his camera trap after noticing hyena tracks nearby.
“It took me 10 years to finally get this one single image of a brown hyena, in the most perfect frame imaginable.”
Brown hyenas are the rarest hyena species in the world. They’re nocturnal and mostly solitary.
They pass through Kolmanskop on their way to hunt Cape fur seal pups or scavenge for carrion washed ashore along the Namib Desert coast.”