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I have a picture for you! 24 July – 30 July
The First Thing newsletter's Ever-lasting Subscriber Photo Gallery.
Want to send us your photos? You need to be a First Thing Subscriber. When you’re subscribed and ready, there’ll be a link to submit your own pics in the Picture of the Day section.
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.
Are you an amateur or professional photographer? While we don’t have money for your pics, if you have a portfolio link or options for prints, let us know when you submit your pic and we’ll do our best to include it.
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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- “Jackals trou met wolf se vrou”. Rain whilst the sun is shining in the Free State. Image: Patrick Wysoczanski
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- Dont mess with me! Image: Barbara Lindop
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- Surprise! Image: Amanda de Wet
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- Early morning beach. Image: Mireille Webb
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- African dawn on the Wild Coast. Umngazi River. Image: Leon de Kock
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- Trees on reflection: Zinave National Park, Mozambique. Image: Brian Alexander
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- Getting stuck in. Image: David Reucassel
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- Stay alert. Image; Barry
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- Cape winter bloom. Image: Craig Naude
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- Photobomb. Taken last week in the Kgalagadi. Image: Claudia Lothering
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- Don’t let the sun go down on you. Robin Hill Salem South Africa. Image: Jack McLeod
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- Flowers after the Fire, Rondebosch Common, Cape Town. Image: Richard Hill
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- The Deesis Mosaic of Christ located in the south gallery on the upper floor of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. The mosaic dating from the 13th century is widely accepted as one of the best examples of Byzantine art and considered the renaissance of Byzantine mosaic art. Image: Shalen Misser
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- 9.36pm St Honoré les Bains. Image: Craig Thompson
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- Low Tide! Langebaan. Image: Lynette Clements
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- Image: Brandon Harding
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- From Rhodes to Ruin – Rhodes Memorial viewed from the ruins of the Tea Room. Image: Lesley Fiona Caplan
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- High tide, late sun. Image: Lynn Crossley
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- A protea in bloom with the starkness of the burnt Three Sisters of the Kogelberg in the background. Image: Vicki Sabor
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- White rhino, taken in one of our parks. Image: Derek Reynish
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- Gauteng: Death of the Stop Sign! Image: Gilbert Grace
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- View from the Forest Cafe, Tokai Forest, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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- Garden on a wine farm – Robertson area. Image: George Olivier
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- Blooming beach, Capricorn, Cape Town. Image: Heleen Bron
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- Orpen Gate, Kruger National Park. Image: Martin Scholtz
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- Sunrise over Hottentots Holland Mountains. Image: Jeffrey Kaimowitz
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- In the pre-sunrise glow. Image: Jenni Bessesen
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- Rush hour in The Wartrail, Eastern Cape. Image: Lewis Lynch
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- Sunrise, sunset, swiftly move the days. Saartjiesnek, Hartbeespoort. Image: Dricus Bosman
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- Elephant and trunks, Image: Campbell Reyburn
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- Yum Yum. A Southern Red-billed Hornbill having a snack. Image: Elindi van den Heever
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- Reflecting in the golden light @ Limpopo Lipadi. Image: Melanie Black
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- Giant Kingfisher on Takeoff – Intaka Island Cape Town. Image: Colin Thomas Brown (Amateur)
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- The Corn Mills with working water wheel, Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Image: Barbara Reid
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- Wind pumps make for fascinating silhouettes. This old faithful is silhouetted against the inner ring of the Vredefort Dome collar rocks. Image: Johan Smit
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- Baby crocodile, from Mopani camp, Kruger Park. Image: Lucy Allais
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- “Cat on the back”. Image: Natalie Greatorex
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- Sunrise Fishermen – Modderfontein. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
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- Beautiful sunrise, Broederstroom. Image: Dricus Bosman
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- Wild dogs looking cute! Image: Karin Linder
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- Gordon’s Bay Yacht Club. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Giraffes @ Tala. Image: Beate Kleim
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- Too hot! Image: Eila Gunning (9 years old)
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- Atlantic puffin, Island of Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Image: Alan Dodson
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- View from Die Kelders across Walker Bay to Hermanus. Image: F. D. Rubin
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- Watching you. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Spring not far away. Image: Barbara Lindop
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- Early morning dip on Table Mountain. Image: Don Pinnock
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- Table Mountain Cloudscape. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Sunrise in Aniston. Image: Alice Kimani
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- Elephant silhouette. Image: Jane Turner
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- Kalk Bay. Image: Ken Barris
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- Star trail & Milky Way over the Amphitheater, Drakensberg. Image: Melanie Black
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- Gordons Bay Yacht Club. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Purple haze. Robin Hill farm Salem South Africa. Image: Jack McLeod
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- First Light. Image: Judy Stevens
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- Die Kerk – Graaff-Reinet. Image: George Olivier
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- Winter eve – Sea Point. Image: Matthew Cornish
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- Tivoli Reef Simons Town. Image: Cleeve Robertson
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- Last light over Langeberg, Swellendam. Image: Val Glass
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- Evening tranquility in Kalk Bay harbour. Image: Martin Fennell
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- Samango Monkeys eating spring buds in a leafless tree. Image: Mark Harman
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- Crossing a swing bridge,a day in the life of children in Nepal. Image: Melanie Black
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- Sharing a cave with Basotho goatherds on a Drakensberg escarpment winter night. Image: Bob Baigrie
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- Dutch Prayer. Image: Virginia Golding
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