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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.
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- Just a regular in the yard – Brown Hooded Kingfisher – Stilbaai, Western Cape. Image: Ettienne Anderson
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- Waterberg Mountain. Image: Marlien Edwards
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- Bird’s eye view. Image: Jimmy Marriott
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- Wish I was THAT glittering early morning… Image: Chris Heymans
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- The (B)old and the Beautiful. Image: Rob Ravinsky
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- European Roller in the Kruger Park. Image: Val Graham
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- Misty morning Robin Hill far. Salem. Image: Jack McLeod
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- Jupiter (Michele’s 3 month old boerboel) and friends. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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- Mosamane pan after the thunderstorm, Botswana. Image: Alison Gilbert
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- The pumpkin store. Image: Jane Turner
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- Early morning calm before the storm at CB Hospital. Image: Matthew Cornish
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- Wait for me! Image: Ceri Gunning
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- It’s Cape Town. It’s Duidelik! Image: Chris Hitchcock
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- Little Sparrowhawk with yellow Weaver prey. (accipiter minullus). Image: Mike Whitaker
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- Aging with Distinction. Image: Antoinette Ntuli
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- It is not that easy. Image: Gerhard Geldenhuys
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- It is not that easy. Image: Gerhard Geldenhuys
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- Fork in the road to nowhere. Kunene region, Namibia. Image: Lesley Botha
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- Sunset in Stonebridge, Phoenix, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Image: H Salejee / h_salejee ⚡
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- On the March (Cape Dwarf Chameleon, Rosebank, Cape Town). Image: Lyn Ziervogel
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- Meiringspoort Waterfall January 2021. Image: Jeanne-Mari Saayman
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- Eyelashes. Image: Jon Gunning
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- Lucky sighting in the Kruger National Park (28 February 2022). Image: June Petersen
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- Cape River, Peace, Tranquillity. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Lucky sighting in the Kruger National Park (28 February 2022). Image: June Petersen
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- Ghostly reflections. Image: Iain Kerr
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- Another Stunning Garden in KZN full of cycads. Image: George Olivier
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- Image: Rea Ferreira
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- Come rain, hail and shine…Hillside is always divine! Image: Carol Daugherty
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- After the swim. Image: James Marriott
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- Waiting for whales. Hermanus 3 March 2022. Image: Patrick McLaughlin
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- Lion Cub – Nambiti Game Reserve – KZN. Image: Ronnie Herr
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- Early morning River Severn at Upton upon Severn Worcestershire. UK. Image: Lesley Caplan
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- Swarms of locusts on a Karoo Farm. Image: Alison Wilson
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- Autumn Silhouettes, Hout Bay. Image: David Bass
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- Lions Head with a hat on. Image: Frank Nevett
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- After the Cape Town Cycle Tour – Colonel Bird’s Bath, Kirstenbosch. Image: Brian Brink
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- Lilac-breasted roller – Gotcha. Image: Ivan de la Rey
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- Shades of Green. Image: Barbara Lindop
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- Fire Devastation – near Stanford, Western Cape. Image: Barbara Lindop
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- Sunrise in Green Point…. Hope for the Future… Image: Steve Chaimowitz
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- Safe from all the noise of the world! Image: Nicky Joubert
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