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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 1 , Weekly Selection Gallery 3 , and Weekly Selection Gallery 4 .
“Best pillow in the world” – a lion cub rests with his mother in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Yaron Schmid A sub-adult male drill monkey displays in Afi Mountain Drill Ranch, Nigeria © Jonathan Mbu Cheetahs sighted in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa © Mark Milwicki Textures on the back of an elephant’s ear in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Ernest Porter A glimpse of a lioness and her cub hiding deep within a bush in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa © Alan Smith Mark, the magnificent dominant silverback mountain gorilla from the Nyakagezi group in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda © Bronwyn Hughes Green pea spider (Araneus apricus ) and prey in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa © Eraine van Schalkwyk Chocolate Hill in the limelight after 2mm of rain in southern Namib, Namibia © Sanet Rossouw Up close with a giraffe in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Ross Couper A leopard cub almost disappears in the tall grass in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya © Faraaz Abdool Giraffes and a passing rain cloud in Etosha National Park, Namibia © Jandré Germishuizen A giraffe takes a drink at a waterhole in Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Annemarie du Plessis Hyena cubs compete to assert their dominance over the group in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Patrice Quillard An African rock python in Marakele National Park, South Africa © Keith Hol “Pre-dawn with red-billed queleas” in Zakouma National Park, Chad © Michael Lorentz “Garden of Eden” – colourful soft corals in Sanganeb Marine National Park, Sudan © Pier Mane A young female leopard resting in a dead tree in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Willem Landman A cheetah descends a tree in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Mark Fitzsimmons A Cape sugarbird on a king protea in the Slanghoek Valley, South Africa © Gideon Malherbe Cheetah cubs spotted in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Chris Kotze “In the herd – I suddenly found myself surrounded by a large giraffe herd when I was lucky to get this shot.” – Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Björn Persson “Mud and guts” in Zakouma National Park, Chad © Michael Lorentz A crab spider covered in pollen in Johannesburg, South Africa © Prelena Soma Owen Cheetah brothers survey the grasslands looking for their next meal in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Ilze du Toit The matriarch leads the way while feeding in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Jaco Beukman “Already hesitant to cross the water, these lionesses spotted another lioness in the long grass on the other side and stopped in their tracks.” – Khwai, Botswana © Willem Landman Aerial view over Okavango Delta, Botswana © Prelena Soma Owen “It’s my bone” – Amboseli National Park, Kenya © Tim Nicklin A long whip coral forms a beautiful spiral in Sanganeb Marine National Park, Sudan © Pier Mane “Headless and grinning, this was the somewhat gruesome sight of the remains of an olive baboon, hanging from the mouth of a male lion. This encounter had a primeval feeling about it, a natural sense of vulnerability going back to days when man was not the top predator on the plains of Africa but rather part of nature’s food chain.” – Zakouma National Park, Chad © Matt Todd A lilac-breasted roller throws his lunch up into the air in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Andrew Morgan “This image attempts to highlight two precious elements of the African continent in a celebratory manner. An elephant in all his glory and detail as well as precious water, without which the continent and its stunning wildlife would simply not survive – all set against a bright and hopeful background of a rising sun over Africa bringing daily new and fresh optimism.” – Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa © John Vosloo Lion portrait taken in Manyeleti Game Reserve, South Africa © Armand Grobler “The soul of an elephant” – Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Prelena Soma Owen A lioness walks down a kopje in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Rahul Sachdev ALSO IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
GALLERY To see the other galleries for this week’s selection click here: Weekly Selection Gallery 1 , Weekly Selection Gallery 3 , and Weekly Selection Gallery 4 .
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