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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.
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Early morning walk – Greyton. Image: Pete Cooke
Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden. Image: Robert Stelzner
Tar Road Mirror – Our office block after the rain. Image: Marlene Birkholtz
Luminous light on Strand Golf Course. Image: Joy Rosario
Early morning flight. Image: Jenni Bessesen
Bee drinking nectar from garden Strelitzia. Image: Patty Fennell, Noordhoek
Mom and big baby: Tala Game Reserve. Image: Andy Higgs
Nature’s Submarine Breaching. Image: Clint Ralph
Tuesday sunset. Near Lanseria. Image: Dricus Bosman
A mother to lean on. Image: Claudia Lothering
Sunset cat. Image: Clint Ralph
Nap time in the Rwandan jungle😴. Image: Nicky Elliott
Myanmar parliamentary officials on a lunch break (before the miliary coup, of course). Image: Chris Spies
Early morning Golf, Services GC, Pretoria. Image: Cor Brink
Image: Alice Wakimani
Seeing stars ✨Image: Nicky Elliott
Breakfast in the Maasai Mara. Image: Hayley Nolte
Perfect spot. Cape fur seal takes a nap on Hobie Beach in Summerstrand. Image: Johan Smit
Yikes – grumpy lion alert…time to scarper! 2 jackals promptly scarper after the lion decided they had nibbled enough at entrails in the foreground. (one jackal is just visible through the bush where the lion is focussed). They both got away and were back a bit later again having another go… Karoo National Park, 31 July 2022. Image: George Evans
Three Icons of Africa, A Super Tusker, Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Umbrella Tree. Image: Clint Ralph
Enjoying my horse in beautiful Pula, Croatia. Image: Bojana
Hole in the wall, Transkei. Image: Daniel Bussin
Perfectly good beach picture photo bombed by Nguni cow 🙂
Image: Daniel Bussin
Serene Sydney harbour sunset cruise. Image: Shalen Misser
A darter just chilling at Mankwe Dam in Bakubung reserve. Image: Louise Dixon
We prefer black and white… Image: Keith Cattell
Pure Bliss – A Stonechat enjoying the last bit of fresh winter sun! Image: Elindi Van den Heever
Great Egret in Pilanesberg. Image: Self, Linda Crawford
Sunset Mutusadona Park Lake Kariba Zim. Image: Rob Pollock
Pavement therapy on a Joburg winter morning. Image: Chris Heymans
Icelandic elephant. Image: Conrad Walker
Natures wonders, Luminous Rocks and Mineral display at “The Scratch Patch” Simonstown. Image: George Sax
Dhow in Mozambique. Image: Solvej Vorster
Muizenberg beach. Image: Joan Parker
Slangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie. Image: Craig Adams
Sunset powering Eskom at Midmar Dam, Howick, KZN. Image: Mike Forsyth
As above, so below. Image: Jenni Bessesen
Part of Cape Town’s Beautiful Castle Of Good Hope. Image: Janice Ashby
Down at the Kommetjie Waste Drop-off sculpture garden. Image: Chip Snaddon.
Sunrise at Rocky Bay. Image: Paul Welch
Just looking for lunch Sabi sands. Image: Peter Brett
Nature’s artscape, Sunset, Camps Bay. Image: Chris von Ulmenstein
Tough day in Africa. Image: John Haslett
Aloe season sunrise over Arniston, Overberg. Image: Nicky Elliott
Sunset in the sky – George SA. Image: Dallas Roache
Germiston Lake. Image; Maria Ueckermann
