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I have a picture for you! 07 July – 13 August
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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- Magnifyer Reservoir. Image: Chris Spies
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- Family time. Image: Clint Ralph
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- Dappled Shade. Image: Bill Ward
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- Cloud dancing above Lion’s Head, Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- The Boogy Broads enjoying the surf at Muizenberg. Image: Nicky Elliott
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- Confrontation. Image: Henri Le Roux
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- Easy peasy – dumped citrus in Robertson Valley. Image: Jo Frater
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- Born to be wild. “I know John likes dogs. Here I have a picture of wild dogs. They are an endangered species and very few are still free-roaming. These were taken at Thornybush in the Kruger Park, free -roaming – wild and free!” Image: Claudia Lothering
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- Mufasa King of the jungle. Image: Elsie Jäger
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- The early bird. Image: Dale Knowles-Gaylard
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- Bushy African winter sunrise. Image: Ian Merrington
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- Sunset Chania Crete. Image: Ian Morris
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- Almost Full Moon (98%!) Set over Northcliff Johannesburg. Image: Roger Alan Lee @rogeralanlee
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- Mother and child. Image: Karin Linder
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- Vulture watching you! Image: Karin Linder
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- A ‘bird’ on Melville Koppies? Image: Alison Wilson
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- Turn to Stone! Image: Peter Strydom
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- Bee Happy. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
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- Recent frost in Randburg. Image: Barry Payne
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- The Eagle Eye, on the hunt @ Chobe River, Zimbabwe. Image: Melanie Black
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- The majestic One known as Craig. Image: Clint Ralph
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- Piles of dead bees lie in the charred remains of Vuyo Myoli’s beehive. (Photo: Supplied by GroundUp)
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- Good Morning! Image: Nicky Elliott
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- Colourful in Cornwall. Image: Jackie Campbell
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- Human scale, Noordhoek Beach. Image: Richard Hill
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- After the Overberg blaze. Image: Peter Strydom
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- All my own work. Image: Richard Bennett
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- Gorgeous Gannets. Image: Jane Turner
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- We’re a little dangerous… Image: Keith Cattell
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- Calmly cruising the Komati River. Image: Sudeshan Reddy
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- People gather in Marikana to observe the sixth anniversary of the Marikana massacre on August 16, 2018 in Rustenburg, South Africa. On August 16, 2012, 34 miners were gunned down by police in the middle of a protracted wage strike by workers of Lonmin mine. Speaking during the event, AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa decribed the massacre as crime against humanity. (Photo by Gallo Image / Sowetan / Thulani Mbele)
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- Deputy President David Mabuza and his wife Nonhlanhla Patience Minisi during the inauguration of ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa as head of state of the Republic of South Africa at Loftus Stadium on May 25, 2019 in Pretoria, South Africa. The swearing in of Ramaphosa, which follows the 8 May general elections, was held at the stadium instead of the Union Buildings in order to allow more public attendance and participation. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng administered the affirmation of the president to the republic and his faithfulness to the constitution. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)
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- Go Away bee. Image: Ian Merrington
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- Southern Africa’s Sphinx. Image: Clint Ralph
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- Artist at work. Sea Point Promenade, Cape Town. Image: Peter Reber
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- Circles in the Camps Bay Tidal Pool. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
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- Launch Time – Durban Ski Boat Club. Image: Peter de Groot
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- Urban mountainbiker sunrise. Image: Danie van Jaarsveld
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- Weird Clouds on Devil’s Peak. Image: Janice Ashby
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- Mornin’ Cape Town. Image: Nick Penstone.
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- Meyerton Minstrel. Image: Kate Barry
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- Sneaky peak. Image: Clint Ralph
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- It’s just a Dance! Image: Melanie Black
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- Sunset over St Helena Bay. Image: Caryl de Krielen
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- Frida and Bennie. Image: Neels du Plooy
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- Icing on the cake, Frranschoek. Image: Chris Heymans
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- Jozi Sunset. Image: Neuren Pietersen
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- A birds eye view of green island, The Great Barrier Reef. Image: Shalendra Misser
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