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weekly selection 19 - 2021 photographer of the year

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Team Africa Geographic

Thursday, 20 May 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 

Wood stevedore. Niger River, Ségou, Mali. © Marios Forsos
An African skimmer provides a massive meal for a tiny chick. Zambezi River, Zambezi Region, Namibia. © Andrew Aveley
Easter scrubhare treat. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Annemarie du Plessis
Elegant battle – an adult male takes exception to two younger males. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana. © Juan Venter
An African dusky flycatcher guards her nest. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. © Braeme Holland
Immature bark stink bug (Coenomorpha). Frankfort, Free State, South Africa. © Dawie Broekman
Busy little honey bee pollinating a sunflower. Free State, South Africa. © Eleanor Hattingh
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‘I will kick you in the face!’ – Tawny eagle and white-backed vulture have a set to. Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa. © Elizma Fourie
Is there something in my nose? Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ernest Porter
Playing in puddles. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Gabriela Staebler
Thoughtful young Sykes’ monkey with grass lollipop. Nairobi, Kenya. © John Spencer
A boomslang looking for its next meal in a sociable weaver nest. Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa. © Ieuan Rose
 Two oestrus females sharing an exhausted male. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Annemarie du Plessis
Flower bee (Halictidae) about to depart with her pollen prize. Frankfort, Free State, South Africa. © Dawie Broekman
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Oryx deep in the heart of the Namib Desert, Namibia. © Nicolas Genoud
Orthodox priest outside Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela, Ethiopia. © Marios Forsos
A perfectly groomed Cape white-eye. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. © Braeme Holland
A family tiff over supper. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Wolf Avni
Flying red lechwe. Jao Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana. © Marzanne Louw
A small amphibian sits on a rain tree leaf. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Mattheuns Pretorius
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
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‘I’m watching you’. Savuti, Chobe, Botswana. © Nicolas Genoud
Observation Gelada. Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. © Patrice Quillard
Posing in a sea of driedoring (Rhigozum trichotomum). Nossob River, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Sharlene Cathro
Crowned cranes in their room with a view. Nairobi National Park, Kenya. © Pranav Chadha
Puff adder (mottled) having a dreadful day with a Cape cobra. Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana. © Reto Bühler
Raucous toad (Sclerophrys capensis) emerging with the first rains of Spring 2020. Frankfort, Free State, South Africa. © Dawie Broekman
Poot poot! Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Annemarie du Plessis
Wet hair day. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Reto Bühler
A massive Southern African python attempting to swallow a blue wildebeest calf. Welgevonden Game Reserve, South Africa. © Rudi Hulshof
Banded-antennae mantidfly (Afromantispa). Van Stadens Wild Flower Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa. © Sam Surdut
An epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus) gazing from his daylight haunt. Mopani Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Siegfried Schroeder
An inquisitive young male sperm whale. Mauritius. © Vanessa Mignon
It’s not every day you see an ant running up and down a boomslang. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Wilmari Porter
‘I’m tired.’ Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. © Patrice Quillard
A tower of giraffes. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Yaron Schmid
A male olive woodpecker excavating his nest in a red saffron tree. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. © Braeme Holland
Climbing at sunset. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Patrick Delomez

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