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eSwatini.
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Breath, take a moment, smell, listen.
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Missing the Big Picture Daughter, Vivienne Purvis (5) at an airshow, Swartkops, Midrand, around 2011.
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Rhino and impala at a waterhole in the Kruger National Park.
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Three Leopards in a tree – Thornybush
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Reflections in the Berg River.
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Boland Blues.
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Sunrise in Constantia Kloof, Roodepoort.
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Sunset at Camp Jabulani.
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Vredehoek residents leave water containers for wild animals along the burnt edges of Deer Park… thank you.
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Breede River near Bonnievale.
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Hout Bay beach in the mist – 22nd April 2021.
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Living the Dream.
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My grandchildren in the Drakensberg.
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Breede River near Bonnievale.
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Full moon setting at dawn over the Okavango Delta.
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A New Dawn in KZN Umdloti- can we all see a brighter future?
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Sunrise at Groot Constantia Vineyard, Cape Town.
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From Adelaide, Australia. In our garden.
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Rhodesian Ridgebacks Kimba and Kira on their daily walk.
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Rhodesian Ridgebacks Kimba and Kira on their daily walk.
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On the road to McGregor
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Fish Hoek beach just before sunrise yesterday morning.
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A walk in a plantation near George.
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A walk in a plantation near George.
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Three Anchor Bay magic
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Rhodes Memorial Engulfed.
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Sunset at Wilderness Heights, 17 April 2021.
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Sunset at Wilderness Heights, 17 April 2021.
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Sunset at Wilderness Heights, 17 April 2021.
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Black-legged golden orb spider.
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Sunrise on the Breede River.
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Aerial ballet. 5pm Sunday 18th April, after hours of Rondebosch being in thick smoke, the winds shifted and the choppers had access to water bomb the university.
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UCT’s upper campus on the day the fire started.
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Pedestrian crossing at Addo.
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A ray of hope? Morning sun over Pietermaritzburg, 20.April 2021.
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Sailing along the Thames River.
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Tawny Eagle with prey in the Serengeti.
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Brown-hooded Kingfisher. Braamfontein Spruit.
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Brown-hooded Kingfisher. Braamfontein Spruit.
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Sunset, Wilderness Heights, 20 April 2021.
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Lilac-breasted Roller snacking on a Praying Mantis.
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Nkwaleni Valley from Ongoye Forest.
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Heading up to Ongoye Forest.
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Gleniffer Street, off Koeberg Rd, at dawn on a misty morning.
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Surfer swims through a wave at Pringle Bay.
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A new dawn on the road near Riversdale, Western Cape.
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Pilanesberg Mountains.
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Pilanesberg Mountains.
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Majestic Lion in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
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Daybreak over the Banhoek.
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Teaching him young.
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Morning Reds overlooking Capetown Stadium.
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After the storm. Bluff, Durban.
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Bridge over troubled water.
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Three Leopards in a tree – Thornybush.