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Team Africa Geographic
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Our Photographer of the Year 2021 is open for submissions, with cash prizes of US$10,000 for the overall winner and the two runners-up. They and their partners will also join our CEO Simon Espley and his wife Lizz on the ultimate private safari in Botswana.
The competition runs from January to June 2021. Get your entries in now and join us in celebrating Africa! Proudly brought to you by Hemmersbach Rhino Force and Natural Selection .
Here are the best submissions for this week
A leopardess tries to decide if some nearby impala are worth disturbing her rest for. Thornybush Private Nature Reserve, South Africa. © Henrico Muller A Cape fox family enjoys the coolth of the late afternoon. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Andrew Aveley Stunning natural beauty represented by an eastern blue mother-of-pearl. Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Ricardo Ferreira Flooding in the Sossusvlei area sent raging torrents all the way down to Deadvlei. The desert quickly sucked up the water leaving only a few puddles to reflect the sand dunes standing watch. Deadvlei, Namibia. © Andrew Schoeman A leopard makes a jungle gym of her meal. Khwai Community Concession, Botswana. © Shaun Malan Perfect dawn in the Eastern Cape. Amakhala Game Reserve, South Africa. © Anja Gröbel A female Thyenula jumping spider observes with colourful fangs, hairs and scales. Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa. © Christian Brockes A pair of white-throated swallows in flagrante delicto . Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa. © Darren Donovan Crash of white rhino enjoying a dust snooze. Kenya. © Dave Cooper ‘Frankly, that seems absurd’. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Dr Ralf Tobias Greater double-collared sunbird in my garden. Elandskraal, KZN, South Africa. © Egmund Dedekind A clever black-backed jackal who has mastered the art of catching not-so-clever, thirsty sandgrouse. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Gonnie Myburgh Not willing to share. Khwai Community Concession, Botswana. © Shaun Malan High dunes in the Tsauchab River valley – an ephemeral river in the Hardap region of Namibia that rises in the southern Naukluft Mountains and flows west through the Sesriem canyon and into Sossusvlei. Namibia. © Günter Brettschneider This hole was probably caused by an infection. Thornybush Private Nature Reserve, South Africa. © Henrico Muller Mineral deposits, floating brine and flying flamingos reflect the sunlight to produce a constantly changing scene. Lake Magadi, Kenya. © Zhugang Zheng A sunrise scavenge of eland long rib. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Johan Kloppers Black-backed barbet focused on a little bee. Kolwezi, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. © Kirkamon Cabello A Mozambique forest tree frog clings to a bromeliad leaf. iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. © Mariska de Wit ‘What did you say to me?’ Tawny eagle eye-balling a wasp. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Lars Roes The thick of the madding crowd. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. © Laurent Nilles A leopardess and her nyala calf quarry just prior to the killing bite. Thornybush Private Nature Reserve, South Africa. © Liam Rainier A precious fennec fox in the heart of the Tunisian desert. © Marcello Galleano A Natal forest tree frog. Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa. © Morne Carstens Alpha male with blood-stained face returns from a successful hunt. Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe. © Quinn Kloppers An imperious red-headed agama. Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda. © Ricardo Ferreira Waiting for rain. Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. © Samuel Cox A carpet of yellow devil’s thorn after the desert rains. Namib Desert, Namibia. © Andrew Schoeman Suri people on the Omo River in the evening. The Suri have lived in the Ethio-Sudan border area for many generations surviving through a combination of livestock herding, hunting and gathering, rain-fed cultivation of millet, corn, and sorghum and the garden cultivation of legumes, spice plants, peas and beans. Omo River, Ethiopia. © Zay Yar Lin A memory of celebration – the discarded wings of hundreds of termite alates the morning after their nuptial flight. Khwai Community Concession, Botswana. © Shaun Malan November sunrise at Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya – the smoke that thunders), Zimbabwe. © Sondre Asdøl Carpet viper. Shaba, Kenya. © Stephen Spawls Fight in the morning light. Amboseli National Park, Kenya. © Thorsten Hanewald A golden monkey drying out on a branch following a storm. Volcanoes National Park, Ruhengeri, Rwanda. © Tom Nicholson Zebra politics in Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa. © Wolf Avni Sometimes, all we need is a hug. This oxpecker was cleaning its beak on the horn. Caught at the right time, it looks like the bird is giving the rhino a hug. South Africa. © Zaheer Ali This lioness lost the sight in one eye to a porcupine quill, but her skills as a mother appear undiminished. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Gonnie Myburgh To comment on this story: Login (or sign up) to our app here - it's a troll-free safe place 🙂.
