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Team Africa Geographic
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Our Photographer of the Year 2022 is open for submissions, with cash prizes of US$10,000 for the winner and two runners-up. Winners and their partners will also join our CEO Simon Espley and his wife Lizz on the ultimate private safari
We are open for entries from 1 February 2022 to midnight on 30 April 2022. Judging for Photographer of the Year will take place throughout those months and for the month of May 2022, and the winners will be announced end May 2022.
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Here are the best submissions for this week
Tiptoeing on the clouds. A crab spider considers the white roses of a quiet suburban garden. Centurion, South Africa. © Hendrik Louw Lioness and cubs in the aureate morning light of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Kenya. © Alex Brackx Knock, knock, anybody home? A rock monitor emerges from an unproductive stakeout in the bowels of a tree stump. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Leshalabe Matlala Gotcha! Serval in flight. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Andreas Hemb The wind ruffles the fur of a large gelada, exaggerating its large and intimidating appearance. Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. © Pepe Arespacochaga A picture-perfect lioness at the golden hour. Liuwa Plain National Park, Zambia. © Andrew Macdonald Portrait of a Kilimanjaro mustard baboon spider – a feisty, old-world tarantula. Ruiru, Kenya. © Robin James Backhouse A black-maned Kalahari lion surveys everything the light touches. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Anja Denker A bickering blowout between two hooded vultures, squabbling for the spoils of a nearby warthog carcass. Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe. © Anup Kiritbhai Mistry Read between the lines. The face of Medina, the 95 year-old matriarch of a Bisharin nomad family, tells tales of an almost century spent in the Bayuda Desert. Sudan. © Beatrice Wong Buffalos with grass-stained horns comically cavorting. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Ilna Booyens An intensive grooming session nurtures chimp kinship in Kibale National Park, Uganda. © Gonçalo Ferreira Mating of the damselflies. Parys, Free State, South Africa. © Haig Fourie Twice shy. A leopard cub timidly peers out from the tree canopy. Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya. © Heiko Mennigen Flower power. A juvenile spiny flower mantis clutches onto the violas, showing off its powers of aggressive flower mimicry. Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve, Durban, South Africa. © Hendrik Louw All eyes on you. A rain spider (Palystes sp.) locks its eight eyes on the photographer. Mt. Kenya, Kenya. © Robin James Backhouse An ostrich indulges in a dramatic dust bath. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ilna Booyens Kaleidoscopic salt pans of Walvis Bay. Namibia. © Jaroslaw Klej Last seconds of life. A mother zebra makes one final attempt to separate her foal from its pursuant – but fails. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Alex Brackx A doe-eyed steenbok ram forages peacefully, unperturbed by the presence of the photographer. Kruger National Park, South Africa. © Leshalabe Matlala Of provocation and regret. A juvenile lanner falcon is unimpressed with a black-backed jackal who startled the doves away from Polentswa waterhole. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana. © Michiel Duvenhage A Neumann’s marsh terrapin photographed amidst the ponds of Ruiru, Kenya. © Robin James Backhouse Star of the show. An imposing silverback makes his way downstage. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. © Pedro Amaral An African wild cat freezes to cautiously observe its surroundings. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Peter Winnan A small calf blithely amuses itself with its mother’s tusks as she grazes on. Amboseli National Park, Kenya. © Robert Elliott An acrobatic four-striped grass mouse dines out at a dizzying height. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ilna Booyens A juvenile rhinoceros viper – a species heavily poached for the pet trade – clings on to existence in a small fragment of a once-great forest. Kakamega Forest, Kenya. © Robin James Backhouse A pre-game stretch as this spotted eagle-owl prepares for an evening hunt. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. © Ilna Booyens Serval kittens in sprightly play. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Andreas Hemb To comment on this story: Login (or sign up) to our app here - it's a troll-free safe place 🙂.
