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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 you’re picture’s not published, please keeping sending them in!
First Thing’s John Stupart is very much a dog person, but we encourage all wildlife and animal-related pictures.
Are you an amateur or professional photographer? While we don’t have money for your pics, if you have a portfolio link or options for prints, let us know when you submit your pic and we’ll do our best to include it.
Note: By submitting a photo you acknowledge that you have given us permission to publish them on this site and in this format. You still hold all rights to your work. If you would like to re-use, print, or otherwise use our subscribers’ photos, contact us and we’ll put you in touch with the original photographers.
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Winter sun in Oslo, Norway. Image: Paul Finnie Tapper
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Furry pose. Image: Danielle du Plessis
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Sunset Quora Mouth. Image: Jane Wilks
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Beatiful Caledon farm house. Image: Farouk Mahomed
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Hyena family at Simbavati River Lodge in the Timbavati. Image: Catharina Robbertze
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Buf Stare. Taken at Rhino Park. Image: Glyn Davies
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Vergelegen reflections. Image: John Peter
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Double rainbow, Bloemfontein; 2021-12-02. Image: Rodrique Speelman
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Waiting for the big one. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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Mcgregor. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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Wonderful rains in KZN have produced a lovely crop of Tree cosies. Image: Frank Calboutin.
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Before the storm. Keurboom’s lagoon, Plettenberg Bay. Image: Penny Keene.
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Moonlight night from Skukuza deck. Image: John
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Hiking the contour path between the old Montagu pass and Arendsrus. Image: Annalene Sadie
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Image: Pieter Strydom
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Looking across the Keiskamma valley, Amatole mountains, Eastern Cape. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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Plett friendly! Image: Mark Taylor
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Cape Point in all her Glory! Image: Natalie Greatorex
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Cape Point in all her Glory! Image: Natalie Greatorex
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Bannow Bay, County Wexford, Ireland. Image: Michael Murphy
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What Now? Taken at Stonehenge, Tankwa Karoo. Image: Leli Hoch
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…and in England ..we still love the Bokke…on game day❗ Image: Len Tomlinson
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A bit of Hermanus lagoon this morning. Image: Rosali Pretorius
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Off the road to Thornville, Richmond, KZN. Farmhouse diningroom. Image: William Giles
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Pitching pebbles at the beach. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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Rainbow and storm clouds over Lookout Beach, Plettenberg Bay. Image: Terry Lessem
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The Twelve Apostles under a blanket. Image: Maureen Reynolds
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Hermanus coastal path. Image: Rosali Pretorius
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Spring! Image: Clive Hatton
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There’s always colour in the grey if you look in the right places. Rainbow over Sandton on Black Friday. Image: La Bartie
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Angry Mocabique Spitting Cobra. Image: Peter Brett
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Past in Stone. Arniston. Image: Laurie Barwell
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Scops owl staring. Image: Peter Brett
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Impala lambs, Jejane Nature Reserve. Image: Bryan Webster Weblor
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Sunset at San Lameer Beach. Image: Maliga Naidoo
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Even the weeds are beautiful in Underberg. Image: Paul Welch
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Evening after a storm, Gauteng. Image: Prospero Bailey
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Image: Roy S Moulton
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Sculpture Garden lovers in Fernkloof, Hermanus. Image: Rosemund Handler
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Jackal Buzzard on fence post. Soetfontein Nature Reserve, Western Cape. Image: Conrad Owens
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Lazy afternoon at Umtata River Mouth. Wild Coast. Image: Conrad Owens
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Together at the beach. Hole in the Wall, Wild Coast. Image: Conrad Owens