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I have a picture for you! 5 December - 11 December 2021

The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery.
I have a picture for you! 5 December - 11 December 2021 Night lights from Signal Hill in Cape Town. Image: Dylan Shellard

Want to send us your photos?  You need to be a First Thing Subscriber.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.

Kassala mountains, eastern Sudan. Image: Sandy Inglis
R27 Northern Cape. Image: Charmaine du Plessis
Fishermen will fish at new moon tonight. Strand beach. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
Recent trip to Botswana, this one is taken close to the Chobe river. Image: Hein van de Laarschot
After the fire-Table mountain. Image: Ulf Hitzeroth
Rainy Saturday - Pelham, KZN. Image: Vusi Shabalala
Your swing is waiting for you along the Zambezi at the new Mpala Jena in Vic Falls. Image:  Jill Wagner, Great Plains Conservation.
Two Squirrels studying their domain from a dizzying height. Image: Peter Brett
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The end of autumn in a small French village. Image: Françoise Destrieux Armour
A star is born. Image: Derek Whalley
Sunrise in the City of Tshwane, in the East. Image: Goodnews Cadogan
Salem, East Cape sunset. Image: Jack McLeod
The rainstorm sunset. Image: Stef Riccardi
Sunset Road. Image: Rosemund Handler
New York Skyline taken from the Ellis Island Ferry. Image: Dudley Morrissey
Cape Sugar Bird. Image: Quix Quicke
A leopard with his meal, a baby impala. Taken on the Mewlatti concession on Wednesday morning at 5:30am, and night before at 9:30pm. Image: Thaakier Cook.
Southern Boubou slaughtering a painted Reed Frog, Noordhoek. Image: Catherina P.
Ihlotzi lodge. Image: Maura Meagher
City draped in dawn-hour mist. Oxford Street, Rosebank pre 6am. Image: La Bartie
Rowling clouds covering Pretoria. Image: Marle Scott
Morning glow in the northern Drakensberg area. Image: Barry Payne<br>
Karoo. Image: Kim Wolstenholme
Across the Cape Town city bowl, arch above the city. Image: Richard Teagle
Cape Town Welcome. Image: Robin Petersen
Rainbows in Prince Albert. Image: Renee Strange
Go Away, spinach thief! Image: Lesley Stones
Shell Protest Muizenberg Beach. Image: Meg Jordi
Double-checking foundations. Image: Chris Heymans
3 days of labour only starting... Image: Chris Heymans
Mud glorious sublime mud. Image: Janice Ashby
Balancing at Totem Falls, Beaverlac, Cedarberg. Image: David Muller
Give me some privacy here! An egret (really) shouting at a hippo mom and calf for thinking about coming up on her piece of shoreline <br>Chobe River, Nov 2021. Image: Viv Sandwith
The Barberton Makhonjwa mountains Geotrail; where you can touch the oldest rocks in the world and understand about how all life came to be on this planet. World Heritage Bucket List. Image: Nicky Elliott
Surreal Sunset. Image: Grant Eglin
The big suck – Addo National Elephant Park. Image: David Reed
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Salem, East Cape. Dogs and ducks revelling in recent rains. Small farm dam in background been empty for last 8 years. Image: Jack McLeod
Big sky sunset over a land just planted to maize, eastern Free State. Image: Llewellyn Angus
Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Camps Bay. Image: Wulf Utian
Beautiful Red Sunset, taken by me from my back yard. Muldersdrift, Tuesday 7 December 2021. Image: Cecilia Balebetse
Leopard lazing in the Kruger Park this morning. Image: Ranvir Boodhram
Owlfly at rest. Seapark, Port Shepstone area. Image: Peter Vos
Someone is loving this rain. Image: Tandy Coleman & Duke
Acanthocephala terminalis mating on a grape vine. Image: Erika van Zyl
A Dogs Life - A restless young Wild Dog watches while the adults sleep. Image: Don Hunter
Jewel of the Sea.  A Peacock mantis shrimp, Aliwal Shoal. Image: Don Hunter
Night lights from Signal Hill  in Cape Town. Image: Dylan Shellard
Surveying the kingdom, discreetly. Image: Hilton Walker
We can be heroes, just for one day. Image: Vanessa Hilton-Barber
Cape Town Stadium from Green Point Park 27 September 2021. Image: Luzette Els, Cape Town
Pod of 60+ whales Monday, 6 December, around 4pm. Image: Craig Warren
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The mountains of the Eastern Free State. Image: Reinet Ferreira
Winter morning mare. Baardskeerdersbos, Western Cape. Image: Conrad Owens
Admiring sunset at de Kelders. Image: David Graham
Rietvlei Nature Reserve - Rainy season. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
Vaccination Centre - Paris. Image: Roger Alan Lee
Sunset at Fernwood Lodge, Central Drakensberg. Image: Denise Le Mottee
Sky feathers, near Wolseley. Image: Clive Algar<br>
Storms gather over north Johannesburg. Image: Leslie Tilley
Right outside my door, just a few kilometers out of Pretoria. Image: Etienne Marais
Van Rensburg Kop. Near Harrismith 1st Dec 2021. Image: MD .
Waterberg Dawn. Image: Gideon Fourie

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