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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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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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Image: Barry Meiring
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Morning Glory. Stilfontein. Image: Donovan Gericke
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Sunrise over dam, Coolen, Hogsback. Image: Michal Pretorius
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Wilderness beach before sunrise. Image: William R Sharp
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Ffluffy autumn. Rosebank, CPT. Image: Yves Ducommun
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Fallen leaves. Karkloof, KwaZulu-Natal. Image: Donald Knight
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A welcome watery weekend. Kleinmond, Western Cape. Image: Joe Grant
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Double Arch Over Durban, 22 May 2022. Image: Shalen Misser. Ethekwini.
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Elgin Sunrise. Image: Judy Bell
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Rainbow Floods. Image: Eric Hodgson, Durban
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Down to the beach, Gansbaai. Image: Neels du Plooy
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Autumn seeds dispersed. Now waiting for winter rainfall. Image: Vivienne Ward
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Portrait of the breathtaking Bokmakirie. Image: Samuel P. Surdut (Instagram: @SamuelPS.photo)
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Reflections, Kleinmond. Image: Don Pinnock
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Cold and wet and blue, Kruger Park, Image: R Handler
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Standing tall. Image: Rik De Decker
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Sunset reflections in Camps Bay Tidal Pool. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Durban Berea…After the deluge: Sign of Hope. Image: William Giles
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Guess what. Guess where! Image: Nott van Heyningen
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Dining out. Image: Tara Turkington/Flow Communications
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There is hope. Image: Tara Turkington/Flow Communications
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Last of the sun on The Hottentots Holland. Image: Joy Rosario
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Dandelions at sunset. Worcestershire UK. Image: Lesley Caplan
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A Rainbow looking down approvingly on the Sharks vs Ulster game in Belfast. Image: Ian Weir
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Where giants once wondered the Earth – Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland. Image: Ian Weir
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Singed fynbos after control burn in Tokai. Image: Brian Alexander
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King penguins going for a morning swim in South Georgia island. SA Agulhas II – the South African polar ice breaker vessel can be seen in the distance. Image: Parik Bohra
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Logistical work during the Antarctic winter of 2016. Image: Parik Bohra
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Next to the ozone monitor (left). The SANAEIV (South African National Antarctic Expedition IV), Antarctic base can be seen in distance. Image: Parik Bohra
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Vesleskarvet Nunatak looking towards the Lorentzen Peak in Antarctica. This image was captured in the Antarctic summer of 2015/2016. Image: Parik Bohra
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Tourists at the Stinking Rose restaurant in the North Beach district of San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April, 12, 2022. San Francisco’s beleaguered tourism industry got good news when hotels hit their highest occupancy rate – 76% – since before the pandemic, last month, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Buffalo Okavango Delta. Image: Karin Linder
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Wild Dog Okavango Delta. Image: Karin Linder
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Water Lily shot at Okavango Delta. Image: Karin Linder
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Spotted Eagle Owl, Nelspruit. Image: Derek Reynish
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Beautiful rainbow arc in Basingstoke, Hampshire UK. Image: Neil Davis
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Tower of clouds, Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Emmarentia Dam Johannesburg – early morning mist. Image: Roger Alan Lee
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Quiet contemplation on a beach in Croatia. Image: Beverley Kempster.
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For the love of the mountains from Njesuthi cottages, Drakensberg. Image: Jeff Moys
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Fascination. Image: Elizabeth Christie