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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.
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Frozen water features at Nelson Mandela Childrens Hospital, Parktown, Johannesburg, 23 July 2021.
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Leucodendron Tokai Forest.
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Sea point at its best.
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Someone got busy.
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Fish Eagle in mud 2021.
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Theewaterskloof dam at 100% capacity.
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Mist in the park.
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2021.07.18 Mandela day… Mural in progress , Morningside, Durban. “THE HEROS ARE THOSE WHO MAKE PEACE AND BUILD”. Well done @GiffyArtist
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Pure joy!
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Early morning vaccination queue at Parkhurst Clinic, Johannesburg.
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Sunrise over sandton towers.
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Remembering Nelson.
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Highveld winter sky.
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Sunset on Potchefstroom – Cachet Park.
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You don’t take a photograph you make it!
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You don’t take a photograph you make it!
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You don’t take a photograph you make it!
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You don’t take a photograph you make it!
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You don’t take a photograph you make it!
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Map of Africa – Wilderness. Some people see a map and some see a crocodile. Taken 18 July 2021.
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White on Black, snow on the Swartberg.
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Remember Armstrong, 20 July 1968?
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Orange Kloof Reserve this week.
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Sunsets nZuti style
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Christmas in July. Schlumbergera blooming in lockdown.
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And then the rain stopped, long enough to walk the kids.
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Ominous rain cloud rolling in, Camps Bay 21 July.
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Halloe Halloe – Aloe Sentinels on a cloudless day at Aloe Farm, De Wildt, North West.
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After the rain…
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Snow this morning in Steynsburg, Eastern Cape
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Something disturbed this young bushbaby and it fled its nest, found a hollow in a broken tree, nestled down and slowly fell asleep.
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Something disturbed this young bushbaby and it fled its nest, found a hollow in a broken tree, nestled down and slowly fell asleep.
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The coastal magnificence of the Walker Bay Nature Reserve glimpsed from De Kelders, Gansbaai.
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Weavers at work.
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Weavers at work.
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Weavers at work.
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Serene Seascape. Together with the gannets perched on Bird Rock, Port Elizabeth, the yacht in the background and the sparkling sea, a sense of calm prevailed when a seagull entered the frame unexpectedly.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Stop And Look.