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A couple of curious sheep in the gloomy Himalayas, spotted while crossing the 4500m Saach Pass by motorbike.
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Bug or flower?
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Pot of Gold in Camps Bay.
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Winter sunset at Veldrift.
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Langebaan Lagoon, West Coast National Park, Sunday 05/09/21.
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What’s for breakfast?
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Whaaat… really think you can get to me?
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Brooding Lion’s Head, Cape Town.
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Dog walking at sunset (9 September 2021).
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The magic that is Cape Town.
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Geelbek, West Coast National Park.
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Wall-to-wall hippos: Serengeti.
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I saw a squirrel! Tokai Lower Plantation 08.09.21
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Southern rock agama basking in Hermanus sunshine on the cliff path, this spring afternoon.
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Good Evening.
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Bateleur profile.
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This was taken at Creation Wine Estate 🍷🥂🍾 in the Hemel en Aarde Valley.
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Leopard in Mopani.
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“Guess who?” Pearl spotted owlet in Pafuri.
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A spring view of Cape Town’s Deep South.
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09 August 2021: The SABC’s vacant residential property, Rocklands Villas, Sea Point, Cape Town. This property was recently sold to the Housing Development Agency to be developed for affordable housing after a long fight by activists to prevent the SABC’s plans to sell the property for profit. Photograph: Chris de Beer-Procter
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Tree in a Joburg park.
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Elizabeth Gqoboka, the Sea Point chapter leader of Reclaim the City, relaxes on the balcony of the flat she occupies in Ahmed Kathrada House. (Photo: Chris de Beer-Procter)
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09 August 2021: Elizabeth Gqoboka of Reclaim the City stands before Ahmed Kathrada House (AKH), where she lives, Greenpoint, Cape Town. The housing complex, which was formerly the Helen Bowden Nurses’ Home is currently occupied by approximately 300 people who have no access to water, electricty or refuse services from the municipality. Photograph: Chris de Beer-Procter
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Tusker of another kind. Kruger National Park.
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They still play like this in the Bo-Kaap.
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Beautiful spring morning! Graskop, Mpumalanga.
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Magical Muizenberg September 5th…
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Muizenberg – so many colours.
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Reflections along the Umgeni in Howick.
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Darn. My pollen is wet!
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Table Mountain dressed in a tutu!
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Augrabies Falls
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Sunday.
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Du Toitskloof.
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Evening contrasts in Somerset West, January 2021.
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Catching Sunset At Langebaan Beach Towers.
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A fresh capping of snow on the Okhahlamba-Drakensberg near Giant’s Castle.