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TOP SHOT: THE LOVELY BONES – The Green Life Photographer of the Month is Allen D Walker, who wins R5000 in cash from the Sunday Times for this surrealistic capture of a kudu skull in the Okavango Delta. Allen is now also in the running for the grand title — the Green Life Photographer of the Year, to be announced in December. Congratulations!
- HIGHLY COMMENDED: WELL-SPOTTED – “I arrived at a traffic jam in Kruger to be told I had just missed a leopard in a tree,” says Massimo Da Silva, the photographer. “I scanned the bush but left after ten minutes – only to look in the rearview mirror and see this beautiful creature. She had spotted me first.”
- HOGGING THE HOG – A warthog carries the load of her sleeping piglets near Ngala Safari Lodge, Kruger National Park.
- GLITZY VISITOR – This African bush grasshopper landed in Gavin Fordham’s Empangeni garden and rewarded him with an opportunity to capture its dazzling beauty.
- WOMEN ON THE RUN – “The sound of two rhino moving swiftly across the marsh is magnificent to hear,” says Laura Dyer, who took this photograph in Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal. “These two white rhino females were being chased by a male rhino, so I used a slow shutter speed to give a sense of their movement.”
- HOLD ON HONEY, WE’RE GOING DIVING – Barry Skinstad recalls how he took this shot off Southern Mozambique: “I was on my way to a dive site when we spotted a strange object in the water. Then we realised it was a pair of endangered loggerhead turtles mating. I quietly slipped off the boat and for about 20 seconds the turtles allowed me close enough to capture this image.”
- FLAMBOYANT FLOCK – Flamingoes take off over the Kabeljous River, Jeffreys Bay.
- KISS OF TRUTH – Photographer Kent Andreasen says a young female leopard near Singita Lebombo Lodge next to Kruger toyed with this impala fawn for an hour, before finally ending its life.
- NEST CAFÉ – Week-old Cape robin chat chicks with a typically voracious appetite.
- FALLEN BEAUTY – A droplet-sprinkled orchid in the butterfly garden at Ludwig’s Rose Farm, Haakdoornlaagte, Pretoria. “This an excellent example that beauty never dies,” says the photographer, Reinhard Nell.
- TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC – “This shot was taken in the early morning. I was travelling in a traditional dhow boat,” says photographer Dale Morris. “Everything was still. I saw these crab plovers flying towards me. I grabbed my camera, and got lucky. The birds were flying near the Mozambique ocean in this wonderful lined formation.”
- HELLO, HONEY – A citrus swallowtail near Brits Airfield,