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I have a picture for you! 21 July – 28 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.
- Foam jouissance – Pringle Bay. Photographer: Lucinda Jolly
- It’s “snowing” in Velddrif. Spring has sprung early in the West Coast. Photographer: Caryl de Krielen
- Putting back with Interest. Jamie from the uShaka Sea World releases another aquarium born baby Thorntail ray back into the ocean. Photographer: Don Hunter
- Vulnerable vultures. At least 150 critically-endangered vultures were poisoned to death in separate incidents in Botswana and South Africa, conservationists said, warning that the mass killings pushed the birds closer to extinction. More than 50 white-backed vultures were found dead in Botswana’s Chobe district on Friday, while about 100 others were discovered in South Africa’s Kruger National Park on Thursday. Photographer: Claudia Lothering
- Spring in Ceres. Photographer: Marion Jeffery
- Sunrise stripes Sunday morning. Photographer: Jenni Bessesen
- Joburg wildlife. Photographer: Chris Heymans
- Photographer: Wendy Watson
- Cape Town by night. Photographer: David Reucassel
- Moullie Point Cape Town. Photographer: Shermain Mannah-Targett
- Hello, hello! Roan antelope, Bothongo Rhino and Lion, Muldersdrift. Photographer: Steph Vermeulen
- Sun Rock at Nacala Bay Northern Mozambique. Image: Jenny Hill
- Looking back on the past, Namibia. Photographer: Melanie Black
- Sunset in Pula, Croatia. Photographer: Beverley Kempster
- Schotia brachypetala mtunzini. Photographer: Barbara Chedzey
- Mtunzini trees. Photographer: Barbara Chedzey
- Photographer: Boss Aj
- Good morning Stellenbosch! Photographer: Paul von Stein
- From the peak of Table mountain facing the 12 apostles on a day where the clouds are gathering for a possible cold front. Photographer: Puleng Bopape
- Reflections of beauty in stereo. Mmkolodi 1, Gaborone, Botswana. Photographer: Cecil Thompson
- Sunrise in Simon’s Town. Photographer: Denise Fowler
- Sundown over False Bay. Photographer: Etienne van Niekerk
- Lilac Breasted Roller. Vic falls, Zimbabwe. Photographer: Bomber Webb, Sedgefield
- “And it snowed” between Bergview Harrismith and Van Reenens 19th August 2022. Photographer: NickW
- Chilly Misty morning. Robin Hill farm. Salem. Photographer: Jack McLeod
- Sunrise over the Century City canals. Photographer: Christine Newton
- Delightful Designer Duck. Photographer: Janice Ashby
- Tugela Falls in flood, Drakensberg Mountains. Photographer: Clint Ralph
- Pet eye roll: “Must I really wake up?”. Photographer: Dricus Bosman
- Beautiful Sunrise capture through a Polaroid Lens ( Blue Lagoon). Photographer: Evette Simpson
- It’s snowing in Velddrif. Spring has sprung early in the West Coast. Photographer: Caryl
