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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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- “Taken during the Umko River Canoe Marathon (in the Garden of Eden!)” Image: Mother Nature
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- “Sunset over Hout Bay.” Image: Carl Malcomess
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- “Cape Town.” Image: George Olivier
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- “Coffee Bay, Land of peace and wonder.” Image: Vusumzi Ruselo
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- “Three’s a family.” Image: Gavin Whyte
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- “Kokstad KZN over the long weekend.” Image: Falynn Coetzee
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- “Dear City of Cape Town, don’t ban us from the Promenade!” Image: CoolerKing.co.za
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- Houdenbek Cederberg, my room with a view. Image: Natalie Greatorex
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- “Sadie, hypotised by the waves at Betty’s Bay (and the Oyster Catchers perching on that rock way out there)!” Image: Sadie the rescue and her Mom, the photographer (Carolyn Clark).
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- “It ends with us. The buck stops here. Workers cleaning Muizenberg beach.” Image: Peter Reber
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- “Hunting.” Image: Jon Gunning
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- “The common Cederberg Koggelmander (Agama).” Image: Stephan Kistner
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- “Malachite Kingfisher seen at Amanzimtoti Bird Sanctuary.” Image: Ronnie Herr
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- “Johannesburg Skyline with clouds.” Image: Roger Alan Lee
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- “Vilankulo Coast / Mozambique – view on Margarugue Island. 20 March 2022.” Image: Bernhard Weimer
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- “Blazing.” Image: Nicole Beare
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- Afternoon sky at Emmarentia Dam, Joburg. Image: Kerrigan McCarthy
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- “Kelp gatherers on a Sunday with Hangklip lighthouse in the background.” Image: Ilse Zietsman
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- “Hindsight” (Hapoor Dam, Addo National Park – 16 March 2022). Image: Ina Loots (Gqeberha)
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- “Hitchikers.” Image: Cecil Thompson, Botswana.
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- Cape Moon on a restless night. Image: Fathima Dada
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- Image: Graham Sutherland
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- “Pink Nerine flower peeks out on Cape mountain cliff face. Image: Sheryl Deane
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- “Fogbow on the West Coast.” Image: Vivienne Ward
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- “Sun Worshippers at The Waterfront.” Image: Janice Ashby
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- “Current SA Latin Champion and Hong Kong Presidental Cup Winner. Elena van den Berg, recently taken at a show she and her husband Ryno did for us in Port Elizabeth. They’re the best.” Image: David Higgs
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- “Spioenkop Battlefield – to fight another man’s battle.” Image: Reinet Ferreira
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- “Milnerton Beach (International Camera Movement).” Image: Andrew Bell
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- Stormy skies over Hopefield. Image: Caryl de Krielen.
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