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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.
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.
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The Jewel Below The Mountain. Image: Janice Ashby
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Seagulls. Image: Jeffrey Solomon
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Bad hair day -Jacobin Cuckoo (dark form). Image: Peter Brett
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Mug & Bee. Image: Robert Ingles
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Breakfast for Green-Backed Heron, Kruger Park. Image: Mike Alman
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Listen I have a secret. Image: Ken Logan
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A bug mugshot. Image: Marianne C
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High summer -view of the mountain from Kirstenbosch. Image: Lucinda Jolly
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Franschhoek Saturday evening 12th February. Image: Dave Balt
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Lurking “cold front” in Walker Bay Hermanus sunset. Image: Barbara Lindop
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Vertical rainbow in Keurboom Park, just after sunrise. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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Mermaids on Camps Bay Beach. Image: Linda Schomer
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The sky in Gweru. Image: Patrick Chitumba
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Sundowners at Cottesloe Beach, Perth. Image: Shalen Misser
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I see the Tree. The Tree sees me. Image: David Bass
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Rhodes University Clock Tower. Image: Mutale Muchule Natasha Mpuku
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Reds and golds and aloes – Garden Route late summer sunset. Image: Pieter Strydom
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‘Vukuzenzele’- Elalini Engcobo at a fee, the horse owner has revived the practice of food security in the village. Image: Ntombodidi Tshotsho
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Morning Inspiration. The view from my balcony in Muizenberg this morning. Image: Ruth Bosworth
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The pink ladies are dancing again. Amaryllis Belladonna. Image: Christina Coates
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Getting flowers in Abidjan Feb 14. 2022. Image: Shameen Yacoob
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Poles apart. Arrow-marked Babblers, Mankwe Dam, Pilanesberg NP. Image: Peter Vos
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Sunrise at Karoowater near Calitzdorp. Image: Anthony Coom
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Movin’ out. Image: Mark Venter
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Cape Columbine lighthouse. Image: Peter Malan
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Learning to swim at the pool. Image: Émilie Gambade
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Arrows in Sunset dam. Image: Ida Gräbe
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Praying mantis on my tap. Image: Alison Wilson
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Moonlight over False Bay. Image: Nick Bird
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Fishing at Cape Cross, Namibia, February 2022. Image: Jasper Coetzee
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Sunset in the Waterberg. Image: Dale McKinley
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Sunrise in Cape Agulhas over the Cape Agulhas lighthouse. Image: Ilse Zietsman
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Inside the Eye of the Elephant! (Taken from inside the cave – hike to Elephant’s Eye, Silvermine, Tokai in the Western Cape). Image: Anastasia Peters
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Lioness in a tree near Malelane Gate in Kruger Park. Image: Valerie Gauld
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Mirror: Heron, Fly away… Botanic Gardens, Durban. Image: William Giles
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Sunset after some rain in the Tankwa. Image: Johann Coetzee
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Beeutiful. Image: Norman Schaefer
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The blessing of a full George Dam. Image: Norman Schaefer .
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Going nowhere! Image: Jaci Penning
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Camouflaged neighbour’s Bella on our carpet. Image: Chris Heymans
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Late afternoon, Selection Beach Umdloti, KZN. Image: Jaci Penning
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Misty sunset from Houtkapperspoort Estate, Constantia Nek , Cape Town. Image: Alex Downes