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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.
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.
Volcanic clouds: Table Mountain from the beach at Woodbridge Island 4 January 2023. Photographer: Shaada Reddy
A Wood Duck politely requesting some crumbs. Photographer: Lloyd Zac
Boys playing on the rocks in Bakoven. Photographer: Barbara Michel
Beach Dogs, Grotto Beach, Hermanus. Photographer: Christine Coates
Beach Walk, Grotto Beach, Hermanus. Photographer: Christine Coates
Shipwreck Trail, Cape Point. Photographer: Martin Fennell, Noordhoek
Feeding Time. Photographer: Lydia Claassens
I am watching you! Mokolodi Game Reserve, Botswana, 8 January 2023. Photographer: Cecil Thompson
Crater Lake Hokkaido, Japan. Photographer: Prospero Bailey
East Beach Port Alfred Eastern Cape. Photographer: Lyn Brown
Ratelgat, 35km north of Vanrhynsdorp the N7 highway. Photographer: Gill Lanham
Sunrise Klein River Estuary 11 Jan 2023. Photographer: Fran Hanekom
Anybody for lunch? Etosha National Park, Namibia, 22 June 2022. Photographer: Sam Cronjé
Not one more step closer or I’ll peck at you! (Female Grey Crowned Crane protecting her eggs). Photographer: Nicolas Lyle
Catch of the day – Carmine bee-eater. Photographer: Andrew Chislett
Bioluminescent algae, Gearings Point, Hermanus. Photographer: Martin Etsebeth
Brafeness. Kruger Nationale Park. Photographer: Andriette Pretorius
Long road to Niassa, Mozambique; Dec 23rd 2022. Photographer: Busi Manana
Two heads are better than one – Juvenile giraffes. Photographer: Marius Botha
Gqeberha’s Sardinia Bay dunes at sunset New Year’s Day 2023. Photographer: Craig McLachlan
