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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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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.
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Riel dancers at sunset at the Caledon Wildflower Garden and Reserve. Image: Grant Kimber
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Sunsetting at Bontebok National Park. Image: Ron Sams
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Sun setting on Simon’s Town. Image: Brian Rainier
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Bush Taxi. Image: Ian Merrington
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Elephants tucking in to a huge 700-year-old baobab in the Okavango
Delta. After working on it diligently for months, they eventually managed to knock it down. Image: Ann Braun
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Houtbay by night. Image: Mark Buwalda
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Sunrise Over Lenasia South, Gauteng. Image: Trevor Paul
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Image: Abdul Haq Adam
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Clear to land – Egyptian goose at Emmarentia. Image: Glyn Davies
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Ou Brulparra display, Babylonstoren Organic Farm, Simondium, Western Cape. Image: Peter Reber
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Surf school on a very windy afternoon in Hout Bay. Image: Fritz Milosevic
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All of a sudden, a leopard siting in Pilanesberg! Image: Judith Shopley
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Mountaintop Savannah in Samara Game Reserve. Image: Patty Esfandiari
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Gariep dam – 27 January 2022. Image: Marina Eilers
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Shashsa the Djuma Leopard. Image: Peter Brett
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Cheetah at Welgevonden. ImageL Genni Barnes
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Reflection of the Umhlanga lighthouse. Image: Lynn Espitalier
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Fiery cityscape sunrise. Image: Janice Ashby
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A spot of paradise. Image: Joy Rosario
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On a beautiful summers day, the Harties Aerial Cableway provides incredible views of the Hartbeespoort Dam & surrounds. Image: Jacky du Plessis
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Whilst 100% a herbivore, occasionally giraffes do chew on bones found on the ground for the calcium this brings to their diet. Image: Jacky du Plessis
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Terrapins are to be found occupying just about every substantial puddle which proliferate Nambiti Game Reserve, outside Ladysmith (KZN), following the above-average summer rains. Image: Jacky du Plessis
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Suburban Sunset Camps Bay. Image: Ian Merrington
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Robin Hill farm. Salem. Eastern Cape. Image: :Jack McLeod
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Early morning swim in the clouds near Stanford. Image: Leli Hoch
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Catching a falling star may be possible. Image: Sarina Crous
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Taken over False Bay from Strand. Image: Deon James
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Outeniqua Sunset. Image: John Miller
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Twee Riviere, Langkloof, Eastern Cape. Setting sun. Image: Juergen Rose
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On top of Lion’s Head, Cape Town. Image: Mthimkulu Mashiya
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Pot o’ Gold, Ceres. Image: Philip Dicey
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Waterlily Silvermine Nature Reserve, Cape Town. Image: Ocean Steenkamp
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Quince tree in Rietbron, Karoo. Image: Erna Curry
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Seagulls at Sunrise Beach, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Image: Erna Curry
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The beauty of KZN! Image: Arushi Mohunlal
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Boggoms bay, West of Mossel Bay, Western Cape. Image: Gavin Jooste
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Ngaka Modiri Molema. Image: Brian Currin
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Sunset in Stonebridge, Phoenix, Kwazulu-Natal. Image: @h_salejee ⚡