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I have a picture for you! 17 July – 23 July
How do you scratch an itchy trunk?! @ Madikwe game reserve. Image: Melanie Black
The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery.
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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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- Sunset perch, Strand, South Africa Image: Laurie Barwell
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- Winter in Wilderness. Image: Graham Nelson
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- Spot Me. Image: Curt
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- Perception. Log on the Beach. Image: Shannon Moore @ShotsbyShanzy
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- KZN South Coast Moonrise. Image: Jens von Delft
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- Bateleur Eagle Okavango Delta. Image: Karin Linder
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- Morning mist on the Msikaba River Gorge in the Eastern Cape, soon accessible to everyone once the N2 is complete. Image: Roger B Purchase
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- Winter day on strand beach. Image: Jenny Dugmore
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- Lotheni, Drakensberg, after the August 2021 snowfall — A refreshing moment of beauty in the aftermath of the July riots. Image: Jesse Greaves
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- Watching Cape Town wake from Lion’s Head.
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- A Southern Fiscal perching on an Acacia. Image: Richard Wyllie
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- Young elephant bull at African sunset. Image: Leon de Kock
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- Fisherman in the Mist, Goukamma Coastal Reserve. Image: David Bass
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- Sunrise, Broederstroom. Image: Dricus Bosman
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- My 4 visitors that came over for a drink…(of water).. The mare tried to open the tap but couldn’d… I had to help! Image: Wilma Josey Venter
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- York Street Kitchen – Stratford – Ontario. Image: Dean Brewer
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- Eurasian red squirrel. Image: Annalene Sadie
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- Reflections of summer days at St. James tidal pool, Cape Town. Image: Martin Fennell, Noordhoek
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- Bikes parked at Heidelberg (Germany) station. Image: Julie Cochrane
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- African Black Oyster catchers near Danger Point in Gansbaai. Image: Lishje Els
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- Hartlaub’s Gulls bathing below Seapoint promenade, Cape Town. Image: James Adriaan Harrison
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- Curious young hyenas, Kruger National Park, 18 July 2022. Image: Ian Neilson
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- Nelson Mandela statue at sunset. Naval Hill, Bloemfontein. Image: Sue Reid
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- Sunset Goose. Image: Tracy Ward / Paddle Experience
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- Giant Kingfisher – Intaka Island Century City Cape Town. Image: Colin Thomas Brown
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- The beauty after the fire. Image: Melanie Black
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- Old life and new life. Taken at Madikwe Game Reserve. Image: Mike Simpson
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- A tranquil scene in Retreat, Cape Town. Taken on my Samsung A51 while waiting for my dentist’s office to open. Image: Peter Reber
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- Starry, Starry Night under the Baobab. Taken on a late night walk last week at the Ntakeni Bush Camp close to the Pafuri gate of the KNP. Image: Rowan Albertyn
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- Mist battles sunrise. Image: Dricus Bosman.
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- Elis @ Pongolapoort Dam. Image: Beate Kleim
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- Dalton: “ I can conquer all”. Image: Margaret de Andrade
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- Watch face reflecting a chandelier in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Image: Jason David Cane
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- James Webb not needed. Pre dawn Guinjata Bay, Mozambique. Image: Dave Long
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- Image: Monty Roodt
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- Waterfall over Jubilee cave, half way up Icidi pass in the northern Drakensberg. Image: Andrew Delmont
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- Secretary birds on the farm at Wakkerstroom. Image: G. G. Sutherland
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- Calm at sunset. Image: Lynn Crossley
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- High tide late sun. Image: Lynn Crossley
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- Alongside the Goukou River near Stilbaai. Image: Jan Vorster
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- No place to play. Image: David C Smith
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- Overberg sunrise in aloe season. Image: Nicky Elliott
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- Deadvlei Namibia. A natural flag of red white and blue. Image: Sharlene Cathro @sharlenewildlifephotography
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- Proefplaas residents picket next to the N7, demanding to be allowed to live on the farm and for water infrastructure to be reinstalled on it. (Photo: Liezl Human)
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- Albert Klaase grows citrus and vegetables on a section of Proefplaas. He also uses this big storeroom on the property, which he says he fixed up with his own money. (Photo: Liezl Human)
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- Dennis Brandt’s family is among 20 who live in farmhouses owned by the Agricultural Research Council, which abandoned operations on the farm years ago. Now the council wants to lease the land and buildings to a commercial farmer. (Photo: Liezl Human)
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- Autumn (Awesome) time in Stellenbosch. Image: Johan Conradie
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- Malachite sunbird, Cederberg. Image: Dylan O’Hagan
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- The glow of the Supermoon over Kalk Bay Harbour. Image: Melanie Black
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- How do you scratch an itchy trunk?! @ Madikwe game reserve. Image: Melanie Black
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- Grandeur of the sky in the week of the James Webb photos. De Panne, Belgium. Image: Fathima Dada
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- Fall Leaves in Ann Arbor Michigan. Image: Sarah Buss
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- Maybe not Gorillas in the Mist but certainly Guineas in the Trees! At sparrows with the guinea fowl – Buffelspoort Dam. Image: Dave Starley
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- Wild Dog in the Kruger. Image: Hilary Twine
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- Layla ready for takeoff. Image: Peter Brett
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- Grumpy rock person, Matobo Hills. Image: Ken Jeenes
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- Poolside at Troux aux Biches, Triolet, Mauritius. Image: Shalen Misser
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- Wwaiting his turn. Image: Barry
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- A weak winter sun struggles to get through. Dalebrook tidal pool. Image: Gavin Brown
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- “What are you looking at?” Southern Ground Hornbill, Kruger National Park. Image: Steph Vermeulen
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- Peekaboo. Image: Conrad Walker
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- Who’s this imitator? Image: Chris Heymans
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- Mosi-Oa-Tunya in its splendor. Image: Moremi Nkosi
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- Southern Ground Hornbills – Kruger Park October 2020. Image: Rowan Lyle
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- Awesome Skies over Mother City. Image: Janice Ashby
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