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I have a picture for you! 1 – 7 October 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 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.
- A proud Impala. Photographer: Karin Linder
- A solid silver sea. Photographer: Katherine Hofmeyr
- A Sunny day in the Yorkshire Dales. Photographer: Patrick McNeill
- Calm after the storm. Photographer: Margaret Hall
- Aloe. Photographer: Faith Rubin
- Joy in the Waves. Photographer: Elijah Gaunt
- Early risers. Photographer: Leandra Mendes
- Early morning start. Photographer: Grant Louw
- Clouds building up for a rare Cape thunderstorm. Photographer: Chris von Ulmenstein
- Harvest Moon Flypast. Photographer: Christa Roussouw
- My love affair started this day in November 2021..I love hyenas since then.. Photographer: Denise Burgers
- Regatta Loading. Photographer: Jon Gunning
- Sleeping Beauty Cave. Photographer: Judith Gush
- Spring Sunset. Photographer: Tania vd Watt
- Young elephant enjoying the fresh water of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Photographer: Caroline Rowbottom
- Twinning stripes with dusky pink and purple sky. Photographer: Ross Couper
- There’s more to a Simonstown sunset than the Bay. Photographer: Chris Heymans
- The Weir, Witte River. Photographer: Justin Nurse
- The flowers in Namaqualand were exceptional this year of which this is a small example. Photographer: Thinus Cloete
- Swartberg mountains. Photographer: Rob Bourke
