--- title: "I have a picture for you! 26 September - 2 October 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/2021-10-01-i-have-a-picture-for-you-26-september-2-october-2021/" published: "2021-10-01T16:29:47" lang: "en-ZA" word_count: 344 --- # I have a picture for you! 26 September - 2 October 2021 > The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery. By Daily Maverick · Published 1 October 2021, 18:29 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.* ![Lunch near Orpen Dam.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/dPiF_2rzMo2YkKpVZc1d77GjE8Q=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_4574-2.jpg) *Leslie Banbery* ![In Kruger Park last week; as close as you can get to a lion.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Py-fWnKct_mf2aWCTULlAtzbErQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC_1399.jpg) *Peter Prinsloo* ![Nesting Giraffe of the Kruger 09/21.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/PWeVgrfdB_19lhh_5eI7CUUxi6c=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image-5.jpg) *Ray Edwards* ![Leadwood Private Camp, Timbavati.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/NcZjej_K2Wm7lkoqiIEoyeZswV8=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_E5348.jpg) *Peter Velleman* ![Learning the ropes at Addo.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ZpJU2N71Osszc6IhwFR32lNUdS8=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_1731-2.jpg) *D Henwood* ![Beauty and the Beast. Taken near Crocodile Bridge Gate in the Kruger National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/XxIYOMAVlPx6YnkJefgQB2bU22I=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BUFFALO-2-NGWENYA-2019.jpg) *Clive Shepherd* ![Sunset cheetah (Madikwe).](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/fIm3BBDn2A26AEESp6IyPaytqDg=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fullsizeoutput_c16b.jpeg) *Sharon Keith* ![Sunbird. Taken at Kirstenbosch with a Nikon Z611 mirrorless camera, 200-500 mm lens.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/LrNygb_-69KCHgCfmQGAmOQcs1I=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC_3221.jpg) *Sue Grove* ![Old blue eyes. Sabi Sands 2021.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/oy1SKFgMIoFTvbIiBDYzYmS67HI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image0-2.png) *Peter Brett* ![Starburst over South Africa.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Whc9MXkEugxvBkGYYsD9veZAa8s=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210925-_B9A1577-Edit-Edit.jpg) *Anne Opperman* ![Magnolias in the Hogsback spring.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/B4YAYxFkGjvvFXZ2H-v2c6vXLeA=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_50387457.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![Azaleas in the Hogsback spring.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/F4nmB3wmM4VnwFITv_xgW9WkxEU=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_50382849-1.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![Black-shouldered Kite with 'kill', Bontebok National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/xcJNyfF9iDepZxHJqNNcmUxUIn4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210919172215_IMG_2934.jpg) *David Thomson* ![An African harrier-hawk visits the heart of Paarl.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/4SDZnnYhumAGk-lsTlPdGqryzrI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-African-harrier-hawk-visits-the-heart-of-Paarl.jpg) *Ilse Zietsman* ![Backstroke in the bird-bath.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/zITyHuk-PnAexmbW1eX3jUJ3Wyc=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/A-quick-dip-to-start-the-day.jpg) *R J Laing* ![Who you?](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AO1Yu7zcx9Z2iUPEiKojmYhFAkA=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image0-44.jpeg) *Peter Brett* ![I am trying to hide but it seems that you still see me.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/NknLmJ68SNu-2SvpdmQ-FEvEk1g=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EB9A6891.jpg) *Kobus and Debbie* ![Black Sparrowhawk juvenile, Tokai.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/4cF511pboQTOSa9Yu0iPN-E4I6Q=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MGS-IMG_9334-sm.jpg) *Maciej Soltynski* ![Two heads are better than one.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/igBzkE_V6TP0vas9nq728vhuif4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_2824.jpeg) *Keith Cattell* ![Augrabies Gorge.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/anLUMq7WqRySERJwyPGjmzldLK0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210920_101905.jpg) *Mark Venter* ![Joburg spring.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Ysxu-0-HcpdezEPOrjAucIjeIXs=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_50439937.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![The Labyrinth at the Edge, Hogsback.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/pXfHDt7OxpQm85hiZy4-WAomKZU=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_50382849.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![Spring waiting -Oak Avenue Hogsback.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ZNgCnip1Yi88SQHF3ps40aYnEUo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_6487327-2.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![Putney Bridge at sunset, London.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/bharQ62KKDYPvZCRiwJ-lId3lnc=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210926_190424.jpg) *Barbara Lindop* ![Night sky in Sutherland.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/3XqrqYj6SdMonVulULnnKi73sFk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sutherland_brendon_wilson_24-September.jpeg) *Brendon Wilson* ![Misty morning, Bullshoek Dam.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/xHOy-x99vvQ_dB1hLBmyHjkGyfs=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_2317_Original.jpg) *Judy Walsh* ![Landscape in Tankwa, Western Cape.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/z-V7Dexwz65P0HzBmRRvui1JYGs=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ayesha-Adam-2.jpeg) *Ayesha Adam* ![Landscape in Tankwa, Western Cape.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/zsSTtJb2DWU2HM4n7uva0evd_Qw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ayesha-Adam.jpeg) *Ayesha Adam* ![Spring delights in the Arboretum, Hogsback.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jlQXTAqaC23JaCDPtPVgPeMfLnw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_50426113.jpg) *Kerrigan McCarthy* ![Charlie & Aela enjoying the last of the Spring flowers in the Klein Karoo.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ukQwW_SV80N_ewlLL7wr5tNCN14=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image0-42.jpeg) *Sue O’Brien* ![Transkei wild coast, Coffee bay beach Nguni pair](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9zI4gsM-yWCEg_5v70U3DwpGtb0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Transkei-wild-coast-Nguni-pair-p.jpg) *Paul Naude* ![Beautiful Nature Karedu Island Maldives.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ZfOpuos4T5OuqgWeAdOThQGdc2A=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210927_125711.jpg) *Virginia Golding* ![Is there any prettier airspace to circle while you're waiting to land?](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Kzfq3rn7l2tHCoJpJolsyYx66SE=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210923_094724.jpg) *Tim Gaunt* ![Leaves alone doth not maketh a pretty picture (Parkwood, Johannesburg).](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/CReQ69ZB9nQmkt9HCu3Mk2ax0CY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ABE09824-7DB6-459A-ACD4-B11706ED2096.jpeg) *Chris Heymans* ![Light and shadow at sunset (Strand beach, Cape Town).](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Ek_qTDWWy1quHKllUq9BR6Ik0pI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210923_181217.jpg) *Anneen Steyn-Durand* ![Sunrise at Letaba.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/3FuS3xUrH743VH9MESjBgMHnUwQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image-7.jpg) *Anne Potter* ![Some pictures from the Overberg.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/pIZyhu3-_4fmbkTvFd6pIr0peLM=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSCF0007.jpeg) *Zane Erasmus* ![Some pictures from the Overberg.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/6U8Qoju35uwERc7iyWOigU-W6Ms=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSCF0036.jpeg) *Zane Erasmus* ![Sunset over Mountain Zebra Park, Craddock.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/h278nFyHN43-pKnCFVYvjYU-Kzg=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20210927_173359.jpg) *Justin Foxton* ![Misty Voëlklip in Hermanus](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/UA_tpHjblWc0VWzyEE4aI7XvXlw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image-6.jpg) *Zeno Venter* ![Three seals and Laska at Kalk Bay Harbour.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/CXYa0DngGO26mCYF3CKOt6xuktw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210927_184342.jpg) *Tim Gaunt* ![A stroll on Durban's promenade.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ClB5BvsxvA25mdbbBHfcwn3YHgI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210927_130150.jpg) *George Olivier* ![Arum lilies, Darling.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/BvzuOehlSJRjtZMHRmxl2tW7ggE=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_1370.jpeg) *Sharon Marshall* ![Windmill Beach, Simonstown.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/e4HTLX0hNqelkM7vzbomzMQn9uw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DBD20521-0BDC-4CB8-B1A1-ED9328DD1E7D.jpg) *Sharon Marshall* ![Breathtaking Outeniqua mountains in George, WC.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/__S-6AAEPyg0Qw4prz0dbwD4eDY=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210918_165541.jpg) *Natalie Delport Louw* ![Surf life.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jbSCwGGMvRrmZ5VqwSgS825o1eQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DC48831C-A357-4B93-A7E3-7A2C9085578A.jpeg) *Lollo V.W.* ![Sunset at the Letaba river in the Kruger National Park.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Xlb2zHXudf4CCBy_plkufdVU6Yg=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sunset.jpg) *Mohamed Khan* ![A fun Tuesday over Noordhoek.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/eBXoqtDFDhcTXwIgatMPRAwpsnw=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210928_111851.jpg) *Keith Roxburgh* ![The Whalebone Pier in Umhlanga.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/-pGkZnHjlZtLbnd_TV8Ij51dU2w=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dusk-Real-Estatre.jpeg) *Max Katz* ![Sunset on a suburban camphor tree.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/dk6gUWVD6ZrtThjz3DaUnm6M3Uc=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20210918_173920.jpg) *Maria Zinsser* ![Flower season.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Vo-FIq6MfGH8tFXBWUed9cAcCzc=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_20210825_152455.jpg) *Ettiene Snyman* ![Views from the Hennops hiking trail in Hartbeespoort](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/KIm5DriTfD6g5_q2en3ayVXc-EQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/d176ced2-e726-4484-ba54-087cd6ad137d.jpeg) *Mareka Masenya* ![The tablecloth is on.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/12AZ1A5h-Qr8-iwwRmzGuhW2nzk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_7847.jpg) *Jenni Bessesen* ![2021 Election’s landscape: Vote for a successful future.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/FaUTZI-d9bBJOAkQn4T1718-vSo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210929_112325.jpg) *William Giles* ![When the sky meets the sea. St Francis Beach.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/x-AEyE4F3PGJjWxgnJks6e--ZGQ=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image_6487327-1.jpg) *Gabrielle Watson* ![Early morning roadblock in Kruger on the H4-1.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AOCYnujaLgWX_DZu0qKxxD87eR4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Kruger-Nov-2020-Roadblock.jpg) *Glen Witte* ![Squirt and Bones on full alert with the first sign of rain; Boons, NW.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9CT1g1VaowRDS3_FIdTfFr2YKtA=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image0-43.jpeg) *Roy Kendall* ![Along the R62 in the Little Karoo. Amalienstein in the background.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ucR5dm8er3lgRqwj6WgUnCsF1co=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ooooooo.jpg) *Irene Ansems* ![In White City, the low-cost housing development at McGregor.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/tfIp4WUniUg_TYY6n7B5oTbO2ss=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/lllllllllll.jpg) *Irene Ansems* ![We can no longer separate ocean conservation from waste management infrastructure, if we are serious about eradicating plastic pollution. West Coast.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/mCKmY__dgAA-tzl6qF-ykTOtKlo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/F13AA431-43FE-4940-A7A1-6391F96FB134.jpeg) *Lollo V.W.* ![A colourful Butterfly in Etosha Pan, Namibia - April 2017.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/j87E2B_Omf_bHsUnEo_aBe5WSxk=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC01621.jpg) *Roger Symes* ![Katsterte near Nieuwoudtville enjoying the approaching sunset with an ageing cactus and a Chevy workhorse long laid to rest.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jnQUcnEoJyAGiC1CWrm0di5Q6NI=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_1970.jpg) *David Carter* ![My happy place, Lion's Head at sunrise.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/eOhk6AB8B7O03UipZFHoULy1X3A=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210930_063539.jpg) *Petra Grassie* ![My happy place, Lion's Head at sunrise.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/mfd9kMrqxPoro-_EOLdDoBw67AU=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210930_063529.jpg) *Petra Grassie* ![Rainy Johies.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/JkLm7G8Mor9sW4j6qMiAUsLeYoE=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1ED5ADDA-4338-4313-8F7F-58E30CE12D25.jpeg) *Chris Heymans* ![Golden Days - Crystal Springs, Mpumalanga.](https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/vsmuet5fGbJZfazO8oP5HSvZMq4=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif\(\)/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Golden-days.jpg) *Frank Fox*