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- Just in time! Image: Roy Dinsdale
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- Moonlight serenata! Image: Nadine Ogonowski
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- Take a bath on the Wild Side. Image: Mark Taylor
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- The bow of the Kakapo to Chapmans Peak. Image: Duncan Robson
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- Sunset in Keurboom Park. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Zebra in Limpopo. Image: Marnis Moolman
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- Knysna Waterfront dusk after the rains. Image: Antonie Jordaan
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- Mexican Moonset. Image: Graham Bean
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- Hallelujah! Easter Sunday baptism – St James tidal pool. Image: Lucinda Jolly
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- 9 degrees cold water swimming. Clifton, 9 o’clock Easter Sunday morning. Image: Philippa Green
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- Waiting for the visitors. Hluhluwe park 13th April. Image: Mike Dixon
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- Earth, sky & perfectly and water aligned – Thames, Weybridge, London. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Rainbow Nation. Image: B Stevens
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- Double rainbow over Suikerbosrand nature reserve, 18 April, 2022. Image: Darryl Mortimer
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- The End of the Elephants. Image: Janice Ashby
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- “A Place Inside Time And Space” by Nicola Taylor. Spier Light Art festival. Image: Peter Reber
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- Take a seat. Image: Zane Erasmus
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- Sharing a snack with a distant relative. Image: Tracey Falkson Brown
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- Ticking time bomb. Image: Anonymous
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- Namibian road. Image: Barry Payne
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- Shall I take on the mighty Thames? Image: Chris Heymans
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- Taken at Churchaven. Image: Anne Engelbrecht
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- Moon going behind Table Mountain before the Two Oceans half marathon on Saturday. Image: Alison Wilson
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- Still favourite city. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Yet another fabulous sunset in Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Autumnal sunset at Barley Beach. Image: Fathima Dada
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- So peaceful without a worry in the world. Image: Brian Alborough
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- Soft landing, Tawny Eagle. Image: Caroline Rowbottom @caroline_rowbottom
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- The Berg by night. Image: Carol Daugherty
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- Colour festival – Robin Hill farm Salem South Africa. Image: Jack McLeod
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- Cape Town’s wilder inhabitants: Caracal on Champan’s Peak. Image: Deerah Pillay Lungoomiah
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- A calm moment at Roman Rock Lighthouse. Image: Nick Bird
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- Impressions of Constantia at Easter. Image: Yvonne Weissberg
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- After the Storms. Image: Anrie Pienaar
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- Let the sunshine in! Just before sunset at Rocherpan Nature Reserve, West Coast, Western Cape. Image: Gary Van Dyk
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- Sunset over our piece of fynbos – Western Cape. Image: Peet Schultz
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- Malachite kingfisher enjoying the sunrise. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- Tabitha cat by candle light during loadshedding. Image: Val Glass
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- Sunset on the Garden Route. Image: Lynne Bird
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- Sunset at Knysna lagoon. Image: Gordon Knight
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- Looking over Franschhoek from the Franschhoek Pass. On top of the world… Image: Alex Downes
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- Sunset’s crowning Glory. Image: Vic Langkilde
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- Let’s look each other in the eye? Image: artin Fennell, Tanda Tula lodge, Timbavati
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- The ‘little stream’ at the bottom of my garden, Kloof Durban. Image: Gwynne Key
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- Sunset over Table Mountain viewed from Southern Paarl. Image: Cornell de Villiers
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- Early morning swim, Kalk Bay. Image: Alan Glass
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- The best seat in the house. Kidds Beach, Eastern Cape. Image: Galit Seligmann
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- Walking on Water. Image: Joyce Bellis
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- Plett sunrise. Image: David Bischof
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- Plett Sunrise… Image: Richard Butt
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- Pretty in pink sunrise. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- A glorious Western Cape Beach. Image: Tracey Falkson Brown
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- Autumn in Loxton. Image: John Gribble
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- Work space after the long weekend. Image: Lucinda Jolly
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- Chain at Robben Island Image: Rabson Takavarasha
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