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Guidelines: we try to be as inclusive as possible when publishing your fantastic photos. However, if you can, please try orient your camera horizontally (‘landscape’ format) and please, please, try send us as high resolution a photo as possible.
NOTE: We limit our weekly entries to maximum 20. If your picture’s not published, please keep sending them in!
First Thing’s John Stupart is very much a dog person, but we encourage all wildlife and animal-related pictures.
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CAPTION: The beautiful game of golf
CREDIT: Marc Spries
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Hovering over dinner
Credit: Dee duPlessis
Jackal Buzzard
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CAPTION: Simonstown from Redhill – Summer – Sea – Flowers
CREDIT: Janice Ashby
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CAPTION: Early afternoon hike, Stellenbosch.
CREDIT: Nicola Rohwer
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CAPTION: A winter sunrise over the city of Durban, South Africa.
CREDIT: Philippa Spark, Durban, South Africa.
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CAPTION:Against all odds
CREDIT:Annalene Sadie
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CAPTION: Rain closing in on Hout Bay
CREDIT: Rick Granelli
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CAPTION: Elands Bay Crayfish bakkie washed up after winter storm
CREDIT: Mike Winfield
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CAPTION: Mouille Point under a Winter Sky
CREDIT: David Bass
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CAPTION: African Sunset in the Bush
CREDIT: Laurian Rogers
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CAPTION: Scenery Okavango Delta
CREDIT: Karin Linder
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CAPTION: Etosha
CREDIT: James Sadie
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CAPTION: Ears in Sunrise (contemplating Table Bay harbour)
CREDIT: Rosalie Kingwill
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CAPTION: Winter needs Wood (taken in Suurbraak)
CREDIT: Kali Widd
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CAPTION: Sunset @Satara Kruger National Park June 2022
CREDIT: Johan Conradie
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CAPTION:Holly living her best life❤️Antibes break-of-day
CREDIT:Holly Daugherty
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CAPTION: Atlantic seaboard winter sunsets
CREDIT: Ian Merrington
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Explaining the spectacular once in a lifetime flowering of the agave plant.
CREDIT:
Shahra Sattar
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A beautiful morning in Newlands Cape Town
CREDIT:
Self taken with mobile.
Sir Richard Hawkins
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CAPTION: An electric storm on the Wild Coast
CREDIT (Photographer):
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CAPTION:” On the catwalk” Timbavati
CREDIT (Photographer): Peter Brett
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CAPTION: I am watching you! Leopard in Sabi Sands
CREDIT (Photographer): Conri Moolman
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CAPTION: A juvenile Martial Eagle in Kruger Park, possibly first flight
CREDIT (Photographer): David Collett
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CAPTION: Eyes Front!
CREDIT (Photographer): Mark Stanbridge (Sydney Australia)
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CAPTION: On the hunt
CREDIT (Photographer): Andrew
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CAPTION: Warming up at Crystal Springs
CREDIT: Marlene Birkholtz
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CAPTION: Will there be sufficient grass for my flock???
CREDIT: Photographer is Mpho Mafika, and model is Ntate Motloung
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Mirror mirror on the water. Where in the world is this wonderful reflection?
Credit: Shalen Misser, Riverland Park, Dubai. 29 June 2022.
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1. Josias Dos Moleele – Bloke & his American Bantu
📷: @mirandi_nel
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CAPTION: I spent the day with the matriarch of the Knysna Elephant Sanctuary, Sally.
CREDIT: Sydney Louw Butler
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CAPTION: The Longest View, Valley of Desolation, Karoo
CREDIT: Guy Lieberman
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CAPTION: Shall we dance? Blue cranes Overberg
CREDIT:Jane Turner
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CAPTION: Banana Beach sunrise
CREDIT: Adri Loots
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CAPTION: The picture within the picture: sunrise at Kalk Bay Harbour 22 June.
CREDIT: Martin Fennell, Noordhoek
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Caption : Massive veld fire near Gariep Dam
George Olivier
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CAPTION:Cape winter
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CAPTION:Delta Magic
CREDIT:Nicole Beare
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CAPTION: A rocky, but beautiful start to the day. Kleimond’s Blue Flag Beach – Sandown Bay
CREDIT: Dave Starley
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A warm glow. Henley-On-Thames
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CAPTION: Just chilling in Dana Bay, Mossel Bay!
CREDIT: Jo Naidoo
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CAPTION: Mining Bee Species – took some time to capture this (not the most perfect picture but an interesting bee)
CREDIT: Karin Sfreddo – Iphone SE
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CAPTION: Just that time of day…
CREDIT: Keith Cattell
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CAPTION: Strandlopers on Nkwazi Coast
CREDIT: Maria Chaplin
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CAPTION: Chameleon. Rondevlei Bird Sanctuary. Cape Town
CREDIT: Peter Reber
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CAPTION:Early morning traffic on the Thames
CREDIT:Barbara Lindop
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CAPTION: Voted in 2014, as the World’s most beautiful pier, Umhlanga Whalebone Pier in Durban
CREDIT: Zaheera Desai
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CAPTION: Shades of Sunrise, Kleinriver Estuary, Voelklip, Hermanus
CREDIT: @TerryLevin
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Winter sunrise in Keurboom Park
Jenni Bessesen
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CAPTION: Pine tree bark in Constantia greenbelt
CREDIT (Photographer): Brian Alexander
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CAPTION: In formation, Zoo Lake CREDIT: Chris Heymans
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CAPTION: Early morning Splendour at Ramsgate Ramble
CREDIT: Stefan Hartman
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CAPTION: Sunset on the Zambezi, Victoria Falls Zimbabwe.
CREDIT: Moremi Nkosi
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CAPTION: Sunset in Limpopo (Pezulu Tree House Lodge)…note the ‘orb’.
CREDIT: Hilda Slater