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I have a picture for you! 8 April – 14 April 2023

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.
- Vulture Valley. Photographer: Kimmon Candice Swart
- Top of the world. Photographer: David Llewellyn Jenkins
- The rich soils of the Winelands. Photographer: Danie du Plessis
- The iconic Matzikamma Mountain near Vanrhynsdorp with thousands of Brunsvigia bosmaniae (March Lilies) in the foreground. Photographer: David McDonald
- The bliss of a good scratch! Photographer: Gill Lanham
- Terrapin Reflection. Photographer: Gerrit Strydom
- Take-off over Cape Town. Photographer: Franco van Vuuren
- Sunrise at the Glencairn tidal pool. Photographer: Rens Rezelman
- Storm surge over Kalk Bay Harbour wall. Photographer: Neville Lance
- Sea of cosmos. Photographer: Gloria Clegg
- NG Kerk in Graaf Reinet during load shedding. Photographer: Jeremy Cloete
- Lurking in the grass. a mountain zebra foal eyes the photographer warily. Photographer: Sharon Richner
- Leopard cub learning to climb. Photographer: Ross Couper
- Kalk Bay harbour. Photographer: Krishin Poonsamy
- Picture of The State. Photographer: Vince Freemantle
- Happy Easter. Photographer: Don Hunter
- Gorgeous swimming potholes on the 5-day Whale Trail in De Hoop Nature Reserve. Photographer: Jacqueline van Meygaarden
- Farm mornings… Photographer: Mphoeng Mphoeng
- Family fun in the Johannesburg Botanical gardens, South Africa. Photographer: Linda Nkosi
- Hout Bay fishing harbour on a misty morning with the yacht harbour in the background. Photographer: John Duncan Ford
