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I have a picture for you! 14 July – 20 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.
- Lower Sabie Mating male. CREDIT: Ray Edwards
- “Stop zooming now, I’m trying to take a nap”. CREDIT: Chris Heymans.
- Head to head, two wildebeest fighting it out on Etosha Pan. CREDIT: Sharlene Cathro @sharlenewildlifephotography
- Mother & Child @ Hermanus. With Thanks to pilot: Rae Henderson. CREDIT: Melanie Black
- African Fish Eagle. CREDIT: Mark Nicholas
- Stanford on a crisp Sunday morning. CREDIT: Fathima Dada
- Red skies at night in Tonteldoos, Mpumalanga. CREDIT: John Linden
- Camera auto focus confuser. CREDIT: Daryl de Beer
- Lost? CREDIT: Ernst Sonntag
- The Cat and the Cub, Sabi Sands. CREDIT: Clint Ralph
- Dusk Patrol – Cheetah in Phinda Nature Reserve, KZN. CREDIT: Hannah de Villiers
- Dawn veld fire, near Lanseria. CREDIT: Dricus Bosman
- Tawny Eagle Umbabat. CREDIT: Mattie van Wymeersch
- Misty morning at Cumberland nature reserve outside Pietermaritzburg. CREDIT: Peter Dye
- Fernando, the SA Guide Dog Pup, brighting our day with his smile. CREDIT: Falynn Coetzee
- I’m watching you… CREDIT: Keith Cattell
- Mini steam train locomotives : Rand Society of Model Engineers, based in Johannesburg. CREDIT: Phileen Lutge
- Sunset behind the Ponte Vecchio. Florence August 2022. CREDIT: Fathima Dada
- “If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you“… a jumping spider, 2mm wide, looking down the barrel of my camera lens. CREDIT: Samuel Surdut (Instagram @SamuelPS.photo
- Between the rain showers. CREDIT: Jenni Bessesen
- Lioness walking majestically in the Kruger National Park. CREDIT: Mabina D
- Baobab Sunset. CREDIT: Clint Ralph
- Mud bath at sunset. Khama Rhino Sanctury. CREDIT: Melanie Black
- Kgalagadi Storm. CREDIT: Peter Strydom
- Shocking the springboks! CREDIT: Nicky Elliott
- Just before sunset, with the clouds scurrying away. CREDIT: Jenni Bessesen
- Illumination, Kirstenbosch. CREDIT: Chris Heymans
- Primulas at the washline. CREDIT: Donald Knight
- City of Gold. CREDIT: Beate Kleim
- At Lower Sabie, KNP. CREDIT (Photographer): David Thomson
- Tugela Falls, the world’s highest falls. CREDIT: Clint Ralph
- Holding on for dear life – gooseneck barnacles at Cape Point Nature Reserve. CREDIT: Martin Scholtz
- Cape Point Nature Reserve – Olifantsbos. CREDIT: Martin Scholtz
- Sunrise shipwreck hike at Cape Point nature reserve. CREDIT: Clair Beaumont
- That’s the thing about Cape Town: just press the button, and voila! CREDIT: Chris Heymans
- Gold dog at the end of the rainbow, Sunset Beach, Cape Town. CREDIT: Gordon Metz
- Gareth Ackerman
