--- title: "I have a picture for you! 12 September - 18 September 2021" description: "The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery." type: "NewsArticle" publisher: "Daily Maverick" site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za" section: "Newsletters" author: "Daily Maverick" author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/dailymaverick/" canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-17-i-have-a-picture-for-you-12-september-18-september-2021/" published: "2021-09-17T21:38:48" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 313 --- # I have a picture for you! 12 September - 18 September 2021 > The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery. By Daily Maverick · Published 17 September 2021, 23:38 SAST ## Content Want to send us your photos? You need to be a **[First Thing Subscriber.](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/about/newsletter/)**When you're subscribed and ready, there'll be a link to submit your own pics in the Picture of the Day section. **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.* ![Indoor Arum lilies.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/3cKJ70BdcjL8mbxAO0Qjvwui-z4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210805_105600.jpg) *Lindie Polliack* ![Pearl Spotted Owlet in Mjejane Game Reserve, Mpumulanga.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/47WVq9AZd8Z53zot9QiTgw7RXjM=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSCN2130.jpg) *Simon Hayes* ![Male lions in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Uy0xHglAdbBymBfw2scfx2g492o=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSCN2287.jpg) *Simon Hayes* ![Standing Stones, Postberg, West Coast National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/CCRa8301-lf03S7xfCxgvtJGCuY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_5431.jpg) *Christina Coates* ![Black-headed heron Postberg, West Coast National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/bXOw0TCGmh3cek5WAgk995yGSxk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_5494.jpg) *Christina Coates* ![Chestnut-vented Tit-Babbler in the West Coast National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/VVCW5zd5iARN-fsk8YAlwJY8mGw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cv1.jpg) *Alice Möller* ![Gloria Clegg](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/7eUD2uta3Wa0Vh38lmSWjBHTWUA=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-41.jpeg) *Gloria Clegg* ![The table cloth is billowing.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/bdcpiDAM9_kOyLu4pjilAi4mW74=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_7552.jpg) *Jenni Bessesen* ![Curious Brown Hooded Kingfisher. While on holiday Thorny Bush Game Reserve.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/TOMX09odE4SsLCbGuRYXSL9o5TI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSC_2535.jpg) *David Packwood* ![Beware of twigs that go snap in the night - you never know what’s out there! This magnificent male leopard was spotted near Simbambili Game Lodge in the Sabi Sand reserve.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/TSWGkO2lC2ph4EZzpxDJf6HM4V4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Leopard-by-Lesley.jpg) *Lesley Stones* ![Happy day: flower goat and tree.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/WpNHyRKrreTBw8AveVB1FOCj8co=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_3316.jpg) *Gordon Holtmann* ![Wednesday Morning Ride. Milnerton, Cape Town](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/tMirwURWCxYkUPflb6vGuQiSE80=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wednesday-Morning-Ride-20210915-jpg.jpg) *Kevin Thorpe* !["I'll fix your headache". Red billed oxpecker - Hoedspruit.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/HAUNtkwnp5V4I-tFwscQ1MWtFZo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Red-billed-oxpecker.jpg) *Frank Fox* !["A winter visitor". Grey-headed bush shrike.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/4yHmUJ9GHwGqmq0mmzPuEVBOcmk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Grey-headed-bush-shrike-1.jpg) *Frank Fox* ![Mirror mirror... Kiddington Estate.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/EZPs4Hu85i-ZX6QBHY29-2pBcFY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210914_115846.jpg) *Barbara Lindop* ![Fire on Water (somewhere near Plettenberg Bay)](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/peMpcbmOabpFeNLTHR4uK-rywAo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Fire-on-Water.jpg) *Yeshelen Govender* ![Shadow-play: Flower season in Langebaan.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/gsdNw5H7NhunmIeW0hn14M4e8Gg=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image1-5.jpeg) *Linda Schomer* ![The first blush of sunrise.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/s80982dM1HRz6ylFwWy1RG0EB-M=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_7500.jpg) *Jenni Bessesen* ![My moustache!](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/rmBiR_49cOWIraAcSrI9hHMs3ro=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210913_113555.jpg) *Lindop* ![Nature’s way of social distancing….humans struggle with it! Sea Point promenade.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/G4ym6QdqDVemsgxx6zQbzAVmvjQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-40.jpeg) *Gilbert Grace* ![“The very best rat catcher’ – Black-shouldered Kite.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/lxbwc0K-T0FurNSc8N7VGXSc7mU=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Black-winged-Kite20210901_DSC6540-Edit.jpg) *Mike Bridgeford* ![An Air Tractor crop duster beneath the North West skies.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/tx7NZoF0DhB1nh6UKmqxTNDWabA=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210906_173216.jpg) *Peter Johnston* ![Shriking the daisies, Postberg, West Coast National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/y_pouHzZszn95vLym08Z6q0LE2E=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-39.jpeg) *Christina Coates* ![You need to know when to stop!](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/T-y3hzMIe20ocCb2KOoM90lI7Wo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_4137.jpg) *Philip J. Cilliers* ![Welcome to my spring garden!](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/SaudyFaE_gKZDI_2zJNDgkUdEkE=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_4024.jpg) *Philip J. Cilliers* ![Sunrise in the park](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jZThQm6Lxn9JTqDUx5qjoxi4IAI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_7440.jpg) *Jenni Bessesen* ![Monday morning board meetings in Melkbos.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/SL-VglbMw_OsyddtEqLZT51w6g0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/25A48EDA-627B-429E-84DA-BD54CC2BFD87.jpg) *Lollo V.W.* ![A Southern Fiscal's murderous mid-preen stare.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/-9TRh0E3Rux6pZKHYh8nUb5-uTY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LPZ00351-1.jpg) *Lloyd Zac* ![Ag, humans again... A sleepy leopard in Kruger.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ijCtA-1_T5Pl4mXcvD-9EA6qktY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSC_2294_polarr.jpg) *Lloyd Zac* ![Work colleagues at home, not pulling their weight. Bentley, the couch king.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/BgJTWgGhp6dpP459vUNMC3ufbBw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LPZ00116.jpg) *Lloyd Zac* ![Camps bay sunset.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/An1C1QQIkUJmwX6TZDkY9BvDUy8=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_5010.jpeg) *Steven Bird* ![Aren’t I pretty?](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/8FA-DceIdfwNbqEOGKhAgHmY108=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_3156.jpg) *Luanne McCallum* ![Summer is on the way in the Franschhoek Valley!](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/rn5GxaKMsCB90epPNPDhSkGE93U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_1710.jpeg) *Dr Edward John Odes* ![Summer is on the way in the Franschhoek Valley!](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cDh-qqkRJmCQvJZXHEd77IL_WeM=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_1758.jpeg) *Dr Edward John Odes* ![A Pearl Spotted Owlet on a Monday.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/p2dlBuwLQFbBCWiCPqqz5DjHhgk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSC_2329_polarr.jpg) *Lloyd Zac* ![They call me Mellow Yellow.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/5JO9RQlHE7dMIPDKGe3Z7DXdjH8=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image_6483441.jpg) *Mike Toerien* ![Up, up and away! Yellow-billed duck taking off. East London](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/clJ49vTDeoMvL7yNpsMIOhV1b6M=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-38.jpeg) *Dayalan Padayachy* ![Namibian stonemen by an unknown artist gather near the Huariseb in Namibia.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/sXC8Ft3RjuQVFr8OTfoYmI3OaHU=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-37.jpeg) *Lauren Norval* ![Yellow-billed Duck flying away from incoming weather.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/zDXGbNEsfOA7ST2aeZ6ZCmK9G40=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Yellow-billed-Duck20210808_DSC5788-Edit.jpg) *Mike Bridgeford* ![Cool dawn.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/8yODat5lQMquS08_FmY7DO6STCc=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LizHart_MaraDawn.jpg) *Liz Hart* ![Sunset in the park](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/i5ZAwhJiReZOmTH1fsGT4BfdRDQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_7472.jpg) *Jenni Bessesen* ![For the love of dogs. Strand beach 12 September.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ROioEPl02svNid6tDh4Tjw1XD1I=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210912_183537.jpg) *Anneen Steyn-Durand* ![Babiana.. Flowering in their massas on the West Coast, Western Cape..](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/8Fg47xnJWj9GVxSZirL9-15e70U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_20210906_145800.jpg) *Wilma Josey Venter* ![Sunrise in Clarens.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/zMDvSplDwdHkmDlSDbVUfu63BQQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image0-36.jpeg) *Varsha Ranchod* ![Arrival: Turbine blades. Planting wind farms? Nature will love you... 2021.09.10 Durban , The Point.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/7WBISU3-V_ehtYemiJh2yngdGL8=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DSC_9324.jpg) *William Giles* ![St Lucia Estuary Beach, "Good Morning".](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/NPUcJjm8bFZWCPYsK4Lv1l-ohrQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_20210831_113253.jpg) *Jeff Moys* ![What a start to the day. Knysna 10/9/21](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/k7S77EaG52jYevJ80pRx27ElIrM=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/image-3-1.jpg) *Dean Gianni* ![Sunset over Knysna west head.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/7H71LJrxqhR38P2pkEY544u72Zs=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210910_175448.jpg) *Mick Dhanani* ![Winging It in Muizenberg 10.09.21.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kffvunldD1pE3leb-LePT0oIkWY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/66DEE53A-4A88-460D-8FD4-FFE2D62484C3.jpg) *Lollo V.W.*