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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 your picture’s not published, please keep 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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Blue Cranes and baby Bitou Vlei Plettenberg Bay. Image: Peter Brett
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Early gathering. Strand beach. Image: Christo Steyn
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Waiting for the fish to bite. Image: Marina da Conceicao
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Karatara road homestead. Image: Knysna Photography
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Lion’s Head going to sleep. Image: Linda Schomer
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Dawn on the river. Image: Will Wallace
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Suburban View of the Table Mountain tablecloth. Image: Sue O’Brien
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Joburg sunset. Image: J Simonds
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King of the mountain. Image: Sue Hatton
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Delightful Disas. Image: Rolland Bryan
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Backhouse Wedding this weekend in Himeville – Glencairn. Image: John Haslett
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Malachite Kingfisher. Image: Glyn Davies
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Dragonfly – translucent beauty. Image: Valerie Gauld
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Yellow Pansy (Junonia Hierta)—very apt name and sat still long enough to be captured, Image: Nick Bee
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A waddle of African Penguins, Stony Point, Betty’s Bay
Image: Christina Coates
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Oil painting – Xenophilia – the love and acceptance of legal foreigners into South Africa. Image: Barbara Ann Scarborough Moore
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Tigers roam free Tiger Canyon Phillipolis Free State. Image: Ian Burger
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Misty morning on Torquay Avenue, Wynberg. Image: Grant Hillebrand
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Image: Gary Leiche
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Purple Heron at Intaka Island, Century City, Cape Town. Image: Henry Sudwarts
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Gauteng evening. Image: Ian Lowdon
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Image: Elmer Cousins
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Battery Park, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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Give me a bushveld sunset any day. Image: Tlou Mashitisho
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Robin Hill Farm Salem South Africa. Sunset storm approaching. Image: Jack McLeod
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Breakfast in bed – all that’s missing is the DM. Image: Kim Ward
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Wild Coast (Mtentu). Image: Kim Ward
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Sea, as far as the eye can see. Jerbourg, Guernsey (Channel Islands). Image: Acsah Nel
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Image: Lana Sherry
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Paradise flycatcher, Sunday River. Image: Bert Bron
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Another beautiful sunset at Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. Image: David Zakus
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The Climb ahead… Lion’s Head. Image: Carol Burn
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Fiery Sky. Centurion Gauteng on 19 February. Image: Dudley Long
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Republic of Hout Bay, Sunday 06:00 hrs. Image: Deepak Chavda
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Beautiful day at St James Tuesday 22 February! Image: Christopher Melck
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A beautiful morning en-route to Stellenbosch. Image: Na’ilah Ebrahim
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Peaceful living – Langebaan. Image: Jeffrey Solomon
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Tadpole touring the toe. Image: David Muller
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Another fabulous Gauteng sunset. Image: Ian Lowdon
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Joburg’s orange skies. Image: Graeme Adamson
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The ethereal lines of the undulating structure that is the Bosjes KAPEL on the farm in the Breedekloof Valley. Image: Ryan Enslin
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Low tide in the river mouth. Image: William Wallace
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A fluffy ball of baby ostrich at De Hoop Marine Reserve in the Western Cape. Image: Lesley Stones
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Sunset in the Western Cape, seen from Somerset West. Image: Werner A Richter
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Satisfied Lion Cubs. Kariega Game Reserve East Cape. Image: Jack McLeod
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Hibiscus flower. Image: Sue Grove
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Wind Power – Langebaan. Image: Jeffrey Solomon
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That magnetic attraction. Image: Barbara Lindop
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Image: Wayne Allen
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At Singita, Ebony Lodge. Image: Mossie Mostert
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Seal Point St Francis Bay light house last night during much needed thunderstorm last night. Image: David Lotter
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Kalk Bay. Image: Iain Fraser
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Just after sunset, Marloth Nature Reserve last week. Image: Peter Chubb