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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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View from France of the Pyrenees mountains. Image: Annalene Sadie
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Colourful sailing on Table Bay. Image: Margie De Villiers & Peter Bam
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Olifants River, Kruger National Park. Image: Graham Bean
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Cape Town Sparkles. Image: Janice Ashby
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In the world of fairies and gnomes Fly Agaric Fungus growing under pine trees in KZN Midlands.
Ever questioned the origins of those gaudy garden decorations? If not kill you, eating this could make you hallucinate and see fairies and gnomes. Image: Madelein Jansen
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Searching for whales from Platberg above Misty Cliffs. Image: Marianne Alexander
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Bush sunup Sabi Sands. Image: Peter Brett
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Jozi dawn. Image: Winnie Everett
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Sunrise over Joburg. Image: Pieter244
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Sunset over the African coastline. ( taken at Vilanculos, Mozambique). Image: Gordon Cornish
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Zeikovlei Jetty. Image: Janice Ashby
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Mystic moon setting. Image: Lynn Crossley
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Just resting Timbavati. Image: Peter Brett
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sunrise on the road to Sani Pass. Image: Paul Welch
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Fun in the Delta Park in Johannesburg. Image: RJ Durrant
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Vanderkloof Dam. Image: T Lombard
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Dancing clouds. Pongolapoort Dam. Image: Bernard Scribante
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Early morning at the V&A Waterfront. Image: Lindsay Redman
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Abandoned. Hout Bay Harbour. Image: Peter Reber
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This was Juniper. Image: George Olivier
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Morning routine, South Beach, Durban. Image: Derek Whalley
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Beautiful Bakoven sunset. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Mirror image at Plansee Austria. Image: Berno Niebuhr
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Saturday was an unfiltered blue sky day in the bay. Image: Heather Ashington
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Kontermanskloof overlooking the winter mist (Durbanville 27 May 2022). Image: François Marais and my Aprilia
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Nature’s perfection, Richtersveld. Image: Jane Turner
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Wispy Morning. Image: John Abbott
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Who can resist this look? Image: Karin Linder
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Sunset over Brisbane. Image: Yvonne Hoy
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Sunset over Marina Martinique, Jeffreys Bay. Photo taken on 26 December 2021 at 19h35. Image: Ashley S Theron
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Birdseye view of the Bushmans River Eastern Cape. Image: Janet Semple
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After the rain, waterfalls cascading in above Newlands forest. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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Sunset in Hoedspruit. Image: Bryan Webster
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Morningside Durban skyline 31 May 2022. Image: Lorraine Reddy
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The Twelve Apostles, Cape Town. Image: Jeff Moys
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Lion’s Head blowing pink smoke in Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Early morning Kruger National Park. Image: Ina Koen
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You never know what’s lurking. Image: Sharlene Cathro @sharlenewildlifephotography
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Spring in Central Park, New York City. Image: Tara Turkington/Flow Communications
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It’s an Ostrich’s Life. This was taken at Arena Riverside Resort in the Eastern Cape. Image: Shannon Moore @ShotsByShanzy
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Catching the wind. Image: Annalene Sadie
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Pre-Dawn Idutywe (yes, it’s in SA😉). Image: Phillip Botha
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Streaming weather Hout Bay. Image: Anthony van der Spuy
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Looking up. Image: Tim Prettejohn photography
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Robin Hill farm. Salem East Cape. Evening reflection. Image: Jack McLeod
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Outeniqua Sunset. Image: John Miller
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Sculpture at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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Half mast for the AmaMpondo King, Zanozuko Sigcau, Gqeberha, South Africa. Image: Claire Martens
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Kelp Gull having its say. Taken in Plettenberg Bay. Image: Shannon Moore @ShotsByShanzy
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Sunrise, Hartbeespoort Dam. Image: Dricus Bosman
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Hitching a ride. Taken in my garden in Sun Valley, Cape Town showing a baby spider on the back of another spider, presumably it’s mother. Image: Beverley Cathcart
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Waves are calling! Image: Martie Kritzinger
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Say what? The Southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) is the world’s largest hornbill species. It is highly endangered. Taken in the Kruger National Park. Image: Nicholas Thiel
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Big Bay, Cape Town. Image: Mark Glock
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If Picasso were to paint a bird: Crowned Barbet (Kruger 2022). Image: Karl Behrens
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Sunset in Hermanus, Western Cape. 09 September 2021 (18h43), taken in the suburb of Onrus in Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa. Image: Glenda Crofton
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Lost in conversation. 20 Feb 2018/Alphen Trail, Cape Town. Image: Ken Barris
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Mating Butterflies. Chintsa West, Eastern Cape May 2022. Image: Shannon Moore (@ShotsByShanzy)
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Sunset at Fick’s Pool restaurant, Hermanus. April 2022 in Hermanus, Western Cape. Image: Glenda Crofton
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Red sky in the sunset. Seapoint 21 May 2022. Image: K Scholtz
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Cape Cormorants just minding their business. Taken at Cintsa West Beach in the Eastern Cape some time in April 2022. Image: @ShotsByShanzy (Shannon Moore)
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Crescent moon over the Lion’s Head Signal Hill Ridge. 1 May 2022. Cape Town. Image: D Lazarus
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Sunset in suburbia. Winyer wonders. Image: Richard van Greunen
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Claremont is where ‘she’ was on Friday. Image: Amanda Waller
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Sunset in Walkers Bay. Image: Jennifer Rault-Smith
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Winter morning at Kirstenbosch. Image: Mary Berry – Amazing Africa
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No filters – just the Cape. Image: Duncan Robson
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Sunset Splash in Camps Bay . Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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Rocky bay KZN South coast a grey morning. Image: Paul Welch
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Constantia Skyline. Image: Keith Cattell
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Cape Town Christmas 2021. Image: Galiema Adams
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“Kilroy was here” (brown hyena tracks at Torra Bay, Skeleton Coast, Namibia). Image: Dirk Coetsee
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Double Duck… And Skies and rocks. Shot at the Glencairn tidal pool. Image: Alan Glass
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An Autumn Beach Sunset. Taken in Cintsa Bay, Eastern Cape May 2022. Image: Shannon Moore ( @ShotsBy Shanzy)