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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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- Water lilies for breakfast (Okavango). Image: Jackie Arendse
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- A beautiful Cuckoo Bee, Thyreus, visiting Lavender flowers. Gauteng. Image: Jean Morrison
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- Peaceful Christmas in Parys. Image: Ben Skudowitz
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- Ma – look – no flapping (Okavango Delta Dec 2021). Image: Bruno Olierhoek
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- Herolds Bay Beach. Image: Adele Van Wyk
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- Proudly Vegan – are you? (Okavango Delta Dec 2021). Image: Bruno Olierhoek
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- Believe me! I am looking for meat substitutes too! (Okavango Delta Dec 2021). Image: Bruno Olierhoek
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- Storm building up in the Northern Cape. Image: Tersia
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- Relax at the beach. Image: Anine Gous
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- Bush Sunsets. Image: Nicole Beare
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- Grass greener on the other side? (Naivasha, Kenya). Image: Chris Heymans
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- Beaty and The Beast. This was taken just inside Crocodile Bridge Gate , we were staying at Ngwenya Lodge. Image: Clive Shepherd
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- Whydah loving itself. Image: Anonymous
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- Never Stop Retrieving – Fish Hoek Beach. Image: Isabella Williams
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- Lions Head peeking above the mist. Image: Dudley Annenberg
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- Blooms on the Hermanus coastal path. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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- A Greater Double-Collared Sunbird eyeing its next meal. Image: Lloyd Zac
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- On a Clear Day (you can see forever). Image: Jeff Bolus
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- Sunset at Pearly Beach, Western Cape. Image: Ian Lowdon
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- Mount Ranier – Washington State. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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- This wonderful sight was seen at sunset on a walk along the Vaal on Christmas Day. Image: Dr Ben Skudowitz
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- Morning yawn, Game Lodge in Karoo. Image: Christina Coates
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- Early morning, Kgalagadi. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- A cheeky Burchell’s coucal shaking off the rain. Image: Nicky Elliott
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- Winding down, Naivasha, Kenya. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Sundowner, Naivasha, Kenya. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Action at the Trans Agulhas inflatable boat race, Stilbaai (29 December 2021). Image: Ruan Greeff
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- Winter sun in Oslo, Norway. Image: Paul Finnie Tapper
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- Sunday sun filtered through clouds as seen over Somerset West from Sir Lowry’s Pass. Image: Lara Bartie
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- Rhodes University Clock Tower. Image: Mutale Muchule Natasha Mpuku
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- Pink sunset elephant. Image: Christina Coates
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- Drakensberg mountains at Champagne Castle. Image: Fanie Brink
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- Gordon’s Bay Harbour from Danie Miller hiking trail. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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- Endangered! …in iMfolozi. Image: Craig Sagar
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- What a waste! Surely one of the most scenic unused railway lines in the world!? It’s been more than 2 months since a train ran here thanks to the ongoing cable theft and vandalism. Image: Tim Gaunt
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- Camps Bay Rainbow 🌈. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Great wall of China. Image: Richard Bennett
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- Rescue Chopper – Whistler, Canada. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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- Please also help identify this plant. I saw it once in my yard. Image: Lazola Ngcwangu
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- Approaching harvesting season. Image: Annalene Sadie
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- Sam the Jack Russell & Ali Labrador revelling in post rain. Salem, East Cape Farm dams filling up. Image: Jack McLeod
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- Driving through Meiringspoort. Image: David Graham
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- Cloud art in Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Inquisitive otter sniffing the dawn at Pearly Beach. Image: Billy Downer
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- South Easter blowing over Somerset West. Image: Pieter Badenhorst
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- Nambian desert scene. Image: Dave Little
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- Spectacular scenery along Clarence Drive between Gordon’s Bay and Rooi-Els – the Kogelberg Mountains showing off. Image: Roger de la Harpe/Africa Imagery
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- Sunset after a thunderstorm. Image: Gerhard Coetzee
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- Our Karoo. Image: Greg Jonsson
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- Near Wellington -Western Cape. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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- Simply magnificent Eland. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Symbiotic dazzle. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Sunday morning walk on Milnerton beach. Image: Norman Smuts
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- Mr Gumede looking over the Black Imfolozi river. Image: Trevor Barrett, Rhino Matters.
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- Ubhukani? In inner city neighborhoods dogs are our security, especially in December, the season for thievin’. Image: Phillippa Yaa De Villiers
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- Cityscape Sunrise. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Constantiaberg. Image: Rosemund Handler
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- Sunrise over the Kleinriver est, Hermanus. Image: Christina Coates
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- Harry the Houwhoek Cat. Houwhoek Farm Stall, N2. Image: Christina Coates
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- These legs have a mind of their own. Newborn Springbok trying to stand for the first time – Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Image: Gill Malcolm
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- Moody Tsitsikama. Image: Saadiqa Dangor
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- My beach, my family! Image: Greg Jonsson
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- Pastel sunset in Kei Mouth. Image: Graeme Adamson
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- McGregor Sunrise. Image: Sung-Yee Tchao
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- Image: Nick Fewings / Unsplash
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