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The Klein River in the Overberg.
The photo was taken from Mosaic Lagoon Lodge.
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Mpande Bay, Eastern Cape
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Hi John! Cape Point yesterday – near a dam… A Zebra and some Bonteboks lolling around! And a pretty flower!!
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Safari Life Luangwa Valley Zambia
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Birds Of Eden, Plettenberg Bay
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Klipfontein, Cape Peninsula
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Picture of Zinkwazi Lagoon at sunrise today
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Table Mountain
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Rainbow at Augrabies
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Can’t go to Greece? Langebaan’s Mykonos ain’t bad!
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Crowned Lapwing taken at the Albert Falls Dam, KZN.
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Toffee, our dog, showing some recovery after a recent diagnosis of Addison’s disease. A rare ray of sunlight bursting through on an overcast morning, while enjoying a beach walk in Kleinmond.
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Yellow Billed Kite taken at Albert Falls Dam, KZN.
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Social distancing
I run a small cell phone photo competition group. We have been going for 5 years!. After every season of about 30 weeks, we vote for “the pic of the series”. The attached photo came second in our last series. It was taken on the promenade at Muizenberg, Cape Town.
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Cirrus clouds on Castle Rock above Kirstenbosch gardens heralding a cold front.
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Picturesque Cape Point
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Thunderstorm over Wanderers golf club
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Durban harbour at the Point. Tuesday 2021.03.09. Heave Ho , and off we go
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First rays of sunlight on Algeria Peak, seen from Sas-se-Werf at Uitkyk Pass, early last Saturday.
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Beautiful Fish Eagle in Chobe March ‘21
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Chokka fleet at Port St Francis.
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A crown over Table Bay
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the beauty of nature… overcast day in London
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Chapmans Peak – first winter storm
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Early morning walk at Emmerentia Dam with BFF.
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Gariep Dam
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Black Rhino in Mountain Zebra Park
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Sunset from Grotto Beach, Hermanus
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Getting Ready for winter
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Sunbird in all its glory
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Farm Dam in Mpumalanga. Early morning mist.
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Mtunzini Doggy beach
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A Transvaal milkplum tree lit by a campfire with the Milky Way in the background.
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Good Morning Kalk Bay!
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The theme of the week was WATER.
Jack strolled through the veld, and came accross a scene of a deadly killing spree: a dove which fell prey to a nifty neighbourhood cat..blood and feathers everywhere. His winning photo captured the beauty of magnifying raindrops on the wings of the poor dove.
The challenging part of our group is that photos are not allowed to be set up, or staged. Only cell phone photos. We call ourselves”Mik en Drukkers”, and thats what we do: aim and shoot.
We are only 15 members, all amateurs.
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Bees making a nest, my house
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Sunrise over Lenasia South, south of Joburg, at exactly 6am one morning this week.
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Westbrook sunrise.
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Kleinmond walk.
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A Durban sunrise after the heavy rain last night
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Sunset in Simonstown
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New Forest Growing – Delta Park Johannesburg
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I spotted this Plains Zebra in Kruger National Park – it has a genetic mutation that has resulted in it having normal coat colouration, but striking blue eyes! In horses, this is a common phenomenon because of selective breeding, but it is very rare in wild zebras. There is no evidence that it is in any way detrimental to the zebra’s health.