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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.
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First Thing’s John Stupart is very much a dog person, but we encourage all wildlife and animal-related pictures.
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- No such thing as too much fun! Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Misty start this morning in Keurboom Park. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Young Male Lion resting Sabi Sands. Image: Peter Brett
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- Lake Naverone Southern Drakensberg. The beauty of tranquility. Image: Ross Blignaut
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- Image: Susanne Johnston
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- Lord Have Mercy Upon Us! Image: Shalen Misser, Ethekwini.
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- Clouds over Bedfordview. Image: George Olivier
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- Life is tough on Hampstead Heath. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Hat Head in New South Wales Australia. Image: Graham Nelson
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- Fresh Fish! Roadside amusement on the P522 near Jozini in Pongola, KZN, 1 May 2022. Image: Brigitte Read
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- May Day in full swing in an English village. Image: Lesley Caplan
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- Special Workersday sunset over Robben Island! Image: Christa Rossouw
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- Just one more wave (last light at Kommetjie). Image: Gordon Knight
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- Cheetahs (laughing) at Lions Valley Lodge 28 April 2022. Image: Jacqueline Phillips
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- Baby Shark. Image: Alex Downes
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- Coming In. Image: Peter Reber
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- Insumo Pan Mkuze very full after the heavy rains. Image: Barbara Chedzey
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- Baboons cracking ziziphus mucronata berries in Mkuze campsite. Image: Barbara Chedzey
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- Lone tree looking fabulous is her autumn leaves. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Autumn sunset in pink. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Keychain matches mountains in the Drakensberg. Image: Abigail Nicola
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- Rhapsody In Blues, at Sea Point Pool. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Another sleepy lagoon sunrise. Image: Robert-Ian Caldwell
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- A ‘blue flag’ sunrise – the beautiful Kleinmond beach! Image: Dave Starley
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- Image: Donovan Samuels
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- Taking the leap in Hermanus. Image: Sarah Hoek
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- Sunrise on the Kliprots River, Finsbury, Mpumalanga. Image: August Van Heerden
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- Perfect Bakoven evening. Image: D Jerling
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- Morning kingfisher. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- Special braai guest. Image: Marlene Zeelie
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- A tree for witches in Worcestershire. UK. Image: Lesley Caplan
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- Image: Elmer Cousins
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- Umngazi evening in May 2022. Image: Amy Harrison
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- Sunrise at Strandfontein. Image: Dudley Morrissey
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- What large yes I have to see you with and my knees need a rest. Image: Nick Bates
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- Namib Rand Nature Reserve. Image: U.Harms
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- An aptly named crimson-breasted shrike. Image: Lloyd Zac
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- After the rains. Image: Jon Gunning
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- Beauty and the Beast on stage in Kruger, somewhere. Image: Ray Edwards
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- Misty morning cityscape in Cape Town. Image: Ian Merrington
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- On the shipwreck trail, Cape Point. Image: Alan Glass
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- Autumn in the Karkloof, KwaXulu-Natal. Image: Donald Knight
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- The Life. Image: Sharlene Cathro
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- Auspicious moon. Maxwell Farm, Wonderfontein, Free State. Image: Michael Aitken
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- Misty morning along the R43 in Onrus, Hermanus. Image: Glenda Crofton.
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- Sunset with a sliver of moon on Stonehenge, Tankwa Karoo. Image: Leli Hoch
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- A serene closing of the day. Image: Sharon Wakeford
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- Peace Palace at dusk, The Hague. Image: Zoë Lees
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- Early morning solitude. (Madikwe Hills, North West, South Africa). Image: Hester de Vos
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- Gqeberha’s tinhat at dawn. Image: Irma Schoeman
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- Dawn over the Umgeni river. Image: Peter Dye
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- Free State nation. Image: Rosemund Handler
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- When you do something wrong it always comes back to bite you. Image: Sharlene Cathro @sharlenewildlifephotography
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- Windblown limestone c 15 – 25 million years, Grootbos, Overstrand. Image: Barbara Lindop
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- Reflections in the Camps Bay Tidal Pool. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Stonehenge in Spring. Image: Fathima Dada
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- Clarence. Image: Anton Kriel
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