Want to send us your photos? You need to be a First Thing Subscriber.When you’re subscribed and ready, there’ll be a link to submit your own pics in the Picture of the Day section.
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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Reviewing my hectic schedule. Image: Liya Sulcas
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This worker never strikes. Image: Frank Fox
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A painful memory for some. Image: Brian Jefferys
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The last dance. Image: George B Watson
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An afternoon nap. Image: C.Pagani
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Wart tbe hog? Image: Willie Burger – Waterberg Game Park
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I have a rare picture of Vladimir Putin grinning at President Zelensky. Image: Koos Marais
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Seagull’s View of Pringle Bay. Image: Pieter Malan
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What happened to Natal Command? Image: George Olivier
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We have lift off – Böhm’s bee-eater taking off. Image: Gavin Whyte
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Sunset in the Karoo. Image: Daniel Bussin
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Bakoven extra terrestrial. Image: Karina Turok
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Lilies of the Hogsback forest. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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A hidden beauty in the Hogsback forest. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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Two heads are better than one. Image: John Montgomery
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Half collared Kingfisher. Image: John Mostert
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Beach Walk. Image: Barbara Lindop
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The view from The Nelson Mandela Bridge on Sunday – long distance and suburban rolling stock as far as the eye can see. Doing nothing… Image: Roger Alan Lee
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The Heldeberg mountain from Strand Gold Course. Image: Joy Rosario
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Going home. Image: Piet Aucamp
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“Der Rufer” (the crier) statue in Berlin, Sunday, 27th February 2022. Image: Cagn Cochrane
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For those shorter in stature. when you can’t see what is going on, you ask a handsome young man to tell you. Image: Christel van Zyl
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City bowl and Signal Hill. Image: Jess Proctor
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Blue Swallow – critically endangered species, taken at Roselands near Richmond in KZN. Image: Ronnie Herr
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Carriage Rock, Kenton on Sea East Cape. Image: Jack McLeod
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From my garden, Elephant’s Eye, Constantiaberg. Image: Christina Coates
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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Image: Nikky Felgen
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At strandfontein sewerage works. Image: Sandy Smulik
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Planning the day, Buffelsdrift, Klein Karoo. Image: Anthea Serritslev
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Tangled roots. Image: Anthea Serritslev
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Camping in Hong Kong. Image: Giuliana Colarossi
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Sunset at Keurbooms River. Image: Liz van Niekerk
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She may be little, but she is fierce! Image: Simone du Plessis
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Passion Fruit (Passiflora) and Bougainvillea side by side in harmony! Image: Jenna Glover Cape Town
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Tree frog. Image: Clare Collinge
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A Fountain Shack sunset. Image: Mark Taylor
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Cathedral Peak on a grey, overcast day. Image: Gill Green
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Tiny, tiny tortoise. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. Image: Ian Lowdon
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Camps Bay: On golden pond. Image: Linda Schomer