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Team Africa Geographic
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Here, at long last, are the Finalists in our 2021 Photographer of the Year! We will announce the overall winner and two runners-up next week. They will share US$10 000 in prize money and join their partners and our CEO Simon Espley and his wife Lizz on the ultimate private safari in Botswana.
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Fly in the eye. Chobe National Park, Botswana. © Hannes Lochner Nestward-bound after a hard day at work. Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Kirkamon Cabello A Maasai giraffe tenderly cleans her minute calf. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Ana Zinger Safety at sunset. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Mattheuns Pretorius Nature’s greatest spectacle. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. © Artur Stankiewicz A mother’s duty. Ethiopia. © Bob Chiu A Verreaux’s eagle carries a reluctant passenger before dropping it to be dashed on the rocks below. Langebaan Quarry, Cape Town. © Braeme Holland Thick hide and razor claws. Okavango Delta, Botswana. © Charl Stols A silverback mountain gorilla known as Rugendo glances curiously at a group of tourists as he walks by. Near Rumangabo and Mt. Mikeno, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Dale Davis A yellow-billed oxpecker – star of the show. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Quinn Kloppers The Namib Desert flowing into the Atlantic. Namibia. © David Rouge Yellow-crowned bishop in full voice. Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa. © Eleanor Hattingh Is there something in my nose? Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ernest Porter Flight over Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park with its meandering rivers and animal tracks. © Gabriela Staebler Cape gannets hunting a sardine bait ball, black tip sharks circling below. Port St Johns, Wild Coast, South Africa. © Geo Cloete Morning chores in a Maasai village. Kajiado County, Kenya. © Ying Shi Dust to dust. A pack of African wild dogs attacking a warthog. Okavango Delta, Botswana. © Golaotse Speedy Senase ‘Would you pass me a napkin please?’ – a member of the famous cheetah coalition of five, Tano Bora, in the middle of a zebra meal. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Aditya Nair Shaking off the dust at dusk. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Hannes Lochner A territorial fight breaks out between rival male ground agamas. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. ©Hesté de Beer Forged in the fires of creation. Botswana. © James Gifford Mozambican long-fingered bat (Miniopterus mossambicus ) emerging from the Codzo Cave. Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. © Piotr Naskrecki Dwarf adder waiting in ambush. Iona National Park, Angola. © Javier Lobon Rovira A southern masked weaver cools down at a birdbath at Lower Sabie rest camp. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Karolina Norée A small amphibian sits on a rain tree leaf. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Mattheuns Pretorius A female chinspot batis feeds its demanding chicks in their perfect little nest. Kolwezi Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Kirkamon Cabello ‘What did you say to me?’ Tawny eagle eye-balling a wasp. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Lars Roes ‘Enough is enough’ – a clan male indicates he’s done playing. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Manoj Shah A precious fennec fox in the heart of the Tunisian desert. © Marcello Galleano A green night adder finishing the remnants of his frog meal. Kogatende, northern Serengeti. © Marc Mol A five-week-old lion cub learning about the world. Thornybush Private Game Reserve, South Africa. © Marcus Westberg Wood stevedore. Niger River, Ségou, Mali. © Marios Forsos Attack – a pride sets upon a giraffe cow and her helpless calf. Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya. © James Nampaso Marimba the ground pangolin has developed a bond of trust, love, and compassion with her guardian Mateus Mambe Masangunge over the course of their thirteen years together. Wild is Life Sanctuary, Zimbabwe. © Sam Turley Hands. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. © Valentino Morgante Showdown – 38 minutes of adrenaline-pumping action The painted dogs eventually left the lioness and her cub to tell the tale. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. © Melonie Eva Young Mundari man playing his Tung (a wind instrument made from a cow’s horn) at a celebration. Central Equatoria, South Sudan. © Mojgan Arashvand A leopardess, undisturbed by the rain, scans the plains. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Paolo Torchio A hippopotamus enjoys sleeping in a natural jacuzzi. Sabie River, Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Mattheuns Pretorius Hartlaub’s gull. Kommetjie, Cape Town. © Philip Jackson An ultraviolet-illuminated rock scorpion living in a cave that was home, a few thousand years ago, to a group of San people. Chikukwa Cave, Chimanimani Mountains, Mozambique. © Piotr Naskrecki A fascinating armoured lily weevil (Brachycerus sp. ) photographed in Ruira, Kenya. © Robin James Backhouse Bana stilt-walking boys. Omo Valley, Ethiopia. © Rodney Bursiel A male leopard watches as thieving hyenas eat his kudu kill. Thornybush Private Game Reserve, South Africa. © Rudi Hulshof A Natal tree frog hiding in a Ligularia leaf. Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal Natal, South Africa. © Shirley Gillitt Cape weaver taking an air drink. Yzerfontein, West Coast, South Africa. © Geo Cloete A water lily frog sits against a windowpane in the early hours of the morning. Photographed from inside the house using a low aperture creates a blacked-out background and shuts out any excessive light. St Lucia, KZN, South Africa. © Tyrone Ping To comment on this story: Login (or sign up) to our app here - it's a troll-free safe place 🙂.
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