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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.
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.
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- Nope!!….Not today! Image: Alex Wood
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- Twelve Apostles – Camps Bay. Image: Jeffrey Solomon
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- Camps Bay sea-set. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Robin Hill farm. Salem East Cape. Image: Jack McLeod
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- Play time (Sangasava, Hoedspruit). Image: Paul Finnie Tapper
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- Betty’s Bay at it’s best. Image: Niel Spiers
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- Mirroring my mum. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Image: Steph Vermeulen
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- Picture-perfect view at Starke-Conde’s Postcard Cafe, Stellenbosch. Image: Sarah Goodier
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- Golden Sundown Simbambili. Image: Peter Brett
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- Botswana National Museum: Botanical Gardens, Gaberone. Image: Jo-Anne Duggan
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- Kalk Bay lighthouse. Image: Anneen Steyn-Durand
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- Rainbow behind the University of Venda. Image: Amos Modiba
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- Sunset over the Nylsvlei floodplain. Image: Nicolas Lyle
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- Hills so green, they’re like a moss garden. Looking out over the Ufafa Valley, near Ixopo, KZN. Image: Heather Moore
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- African Darter preening. Image: Glyn Davies
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- Fishing at Murray Park Springs Gauteng. Image: Ann Langeveld
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- Man and birds like to climb high. Image: Mark Seale
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- Springtide at Pringle Bay. Image: Karin Linder
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- The 220 000 year old Tswaing Crater in all its splendor taken on 23 January 2022. Image: Mohamed Khan
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- Kalk Bay sunset and sunrise in the midst of the heatwave over the weekend. Image: Bishop Geoff
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- My Canadian Ridgeback wondering where the lions are. Image: Jonathan Hey
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- Beach days. Image: Nicole Beare
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- Lichen on Lions Head. Image: Patty Price
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- Goldie swimming at Umngeni /Howick Conservatory Walk. Image: Vicki Smith
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- Terence Maritz, a member of the Overberg Wildfire Volunteers and others battled forest-fires in fierce 40-degree heat in the mountains at Knoflokskraal near Grabouw in the Western Cape last weekend. (Photo: William Smook)
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- Swee waxbill in the morning sun. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- Pied Kingfisher – Catch of the Day! Image: Trevor Mathews
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- African sky. Image: Sue Metzer
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- Offer to the moon. Image: Jacqueline Saaiman
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- Embracing the waves. Image: Jacqueline Saaiman
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- On the outside looking in. Image: Jacqueline Saaiman
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- Ancient wisdom. Image: Jacqueline Saaiman
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- Happy Dance, Kruger National Park, 17 January 2022. Image: Shauneen Beukes
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- Sunrise at the top of Sani Pass. Image: Mark Venter
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- Rooting down; Pipe Track Table Mountain. Image: Pia Tedeschi
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- Strand’s Golden Mile – perfect for hot summer evenings beachwalking. Image: Benhard Wiese
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- Lone cyclist exploring a moody Hout Bay Harbour, Cape Town. Image: Alastair Mackie
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- Protea caffra, Melville koppies. Image: Alison Wilson
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- With temperatures soaring, Saunders Rocks has become quite the scene. Image: Peter Greenwall
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- Brave surfer riding the Wild Waves of Camps Bay during the recent mysterious Winter Sea Storm Surge. Image: Peter Greenwall
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- Fishing Kruger Park. Image: Grenville Wilson
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- Image: Ernie Blom
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- Southern Carmine Bee-eater. Image: John Mostert
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- Black-collared Barbet. Image: John Mostert
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- Winter has its own beauty. Image: P Carpenter
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- Small cacti, big bloom. Image: Nico Ferreira
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- Wire Art, Spier Wine Farm. Image: Peter Reber
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- Full-on ground level, Naivasha. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga. Image: Sheena Cooper
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- Image: Wim Pelser
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- It’s that pesky itch! Image: R Handler
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- An apparantly distressed seal on Grotto beach Hermanus. Image: Barbara Lindop
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- On our way to Vergelegen. Image: Elsie Jäger
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- Lioness – Mpila tented camp, Mfolozi, KZN. Image: Jeremy Faure-Field
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- Morning stroll on Noordhoek beach. Image: Gordon Knight
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- Daring boogie-boarder at Pringle Bay. Image: Beatie Hofmeyr
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