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Africa Geographic Editorial
Friday, 03 May 2019
Our Photographer of the Year 2019 competition is now closed for entries and this week we will look at the last remaining entries chosen for the Weekly Selection galleries.To see the other galleries for this week’s selection click here: Weekly Selection Gallery 2 , Weekly Selection Gallery 3 , and Weekly Selection Gallery 4 .
“This highly intimate image of an elephant calf suckling its mother is a celebration of the future of these behemoths. He was conceived, born, raised to this stage, healthy and well on his way to becoming a fully grown elephant to partake in the same natural cycle of life and propagation again. This is surely a celebration of success in Africa. Although the image was taken in a national park where they are protected, to me, the image is representative of all life flourishing all over the continent against very severe odds.” – Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa © John Vosloo Portrait of the King in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Mark Fitzsimmons “The primordial” – Marine, a giant white rhino with one of the longest horns around, somewhere in Africa © Björn Persson A lion cub tries to gets his mother’s attention in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Yaron Schmid “After the rain” – a zebra and her calf in the Makgadikgadi Pan, Botswana © Gerald Hinde A young female leopard walks in the dry riverbed of the Nossob River in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Willem Landman A yellow-throated longclaw takes flight in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Andrew Morgan A baboon at sunset in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Janine Malan Gourma boys at an initiation ceremony near the Niger-Burkina Fasso border © Jesus Amunarriz Agueda A jumping spider (Hyllus sp.) in a folded leaf in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa © Eraine van Schalkwyk The majestic male leopard Maxabeni in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Joni Munsterteiger Elephants pick up the pace as they approach a waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia © André Ligthelm Spring flower carpet in Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa © Riaan Wolhuter Ostriches chase each other on the plains of Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © India Bulkeley “Wise eye” – an elephant up close in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania © Serkan Hussein A bateleur in full flight in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Willie van Schalkwyk A giraffe grooms her calf in Mara North Conservancy, Kenya © Yaron Schmid Golden light in the ‘blue forest’ with an impala, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe © Artur Stankiewicz A leopardess on the hunt in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Prelena Soma Owen “Tuxedo bee” – a bee rests on a piece of vegetation in Johannesburg, South Africa © Prelena Soma Owen “Two worlds. Both over and under, the Bazaruto Archipelago offers a unique area to conserve and explore. Here a green turtle sails through the clear waters.”– southern Mozambique © Matt Todd A mountain gorilla rests in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda © Kevin Dooley Lions laze away the morning in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Garry Hafner A wattled starling with a dragonfly catch rides on the back of a muddy wildebeest in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Lakshitha Karunarathna “Ocean giant” – a giant crown jellyfish at Protea Banks reef, South Africa © Pier Mane “A sun pillar breaks through the clouds from above and almost points at the rhino as the chosen one” – Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Björn Persson “Just a plain image of a mountain zebra which is part of a sustainable and large population in the Mountain Zebra National Park. The reason I took the image was to capture and celebrate how they (as a species) were brought from the brink of extinction to a thriving population today.” – Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa © John Vosloo A bateleur opens his wings in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Carol Barry “While on a game drive a female leopard was seen patrolling her territory. We followed her for a while. She led us to a large termite mound and while taking photographs of her she called for her cub and this approximately six-week-old cub appeared from a hole in the termite mound.” – Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Daniel Koen A martial eagle with a helmeted guineafowl in Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana © Rudolf Hug Two elephants at a waterhole in north-eastern Botswana © Jaco Beukman “Marching forward” – gemsbok roam in the most difficult of climates in Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia © Jandré Germishuizen A young elephant plays with the dusty red earth with his trunk in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe © Michelle McKissock “Queen with her meaty crown” – a lioness feasts on a nyala bull in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Ernest Porter A bateleur comes in to land by a waterhole in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Willem Landman “The Grevy’s zebra illusion” – Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya © Yaron Schmid ALSO IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
GALLERY To see the other galleries for this week’s selection click here: Weekly Selection Gallery 2 , Weekly Selection Gallery 3 , and Weekly Selection Gallery 4 .
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