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TOP IMAGE: MY, WHAT BIG EARS YOU HAVE – Black-backed jackals are well adapted to living in the Kalahari, where the environment can be harsh. “These two were extremely curious about what I was doing with my big lens,” says the November Green Life Photographer of the Month, Dale Morris. Congratulations!
- COMMENDED: FIGHT CLUB – White-throated swallows, Woodhill Golf Course, Pretoria.
- COMMENDED: NOT TODAY, JOSEPHINE – If hippos yawn in a display of threat, we’re guessing this animal was in a particularly argumentative mood. Chobe National Park, Botswana.
- READERS’ CHOICE: WELL SPOTTED – A beautiful shot by Massimo Da Silva of a leopard in the Kruger Park. Vote for your favourite pics by viewing November’s top photos on www. facebook.com/stgreenlife. Your favourite images will be considered for the grand Canon prizes at the end of the year.
- ONE BREATH – The setting ... deep off Ponta Do Ouro, Mozambique, in 100m of water. The photographer, Barry Skinstad, dragged a full camera rig down to 20m and waited for this silvertip shark to swim overhead. This shot, he says, was taken on one breath.
- WHOOSH – Cubs playing, Phinda Private Game Reserve. Photographer Gavin Lautenbach says this was his first attempt at the panning technique.
- SNUG AS A BUG – Grasshopper, Parkwood, Joburg.
- FIELDS OF GOLD – Elephants in Damaraland, Namibia.
- SUNSET SPORTS – Two young elephants playing in the Chobe River during sunset while crossing to the opposite bank.
- SWEET DEAL – Photographer Shaun Graham photographed this honeybee at his home in Mpumalanga, Secunda.
- STRANGE PERSPECTIVES – Two strikingly framed giraffes, by photographer Sonia Merolla. “The long, sleek neck and muscled chest shows that behind a giraffe’s grace there is a powerful muscular system,” she says.
- THERE GOES BREAKFAST – A secretarybird searches the short grasslands of the Hluhluwe River floodplain in KwaZulu-Natal for a late-morning snack. This locust got away, and all the bird could do was watch its breakfast fly off.
- LEAF ME ALONE – A flapnecked chameleon, a common summer sight in the Kruger National Park. “I lay down on the ground to get a good angle, and fired while this chameleon was swaying back and forth on two feet,” says photographer Laura Dyer, “a defence mechanism to make it look like a leaf.”
- Close-up view of a starfish in the Pomene estuary, Mozambique, demonstrating the symmetrical beauty of their spines.
- FRENCH CUISINE – A ground hornbill strides with its catch.
- FENCE SITTER – We are including two flapnecked chameleons in this month’s gallery of top images as both are excellent. This one was photographed by Torin Garrick Wolff at his home in Stanford College, Limpopo.
- ALOE THERE – The iconic quivertree, a member of the aloe family, snapped by Upington local Elizma Fourie on a dirt road next to the Orange River halfway between Keimoes and Kakamas, Northern Cape.
- MILK MOBILE – A suckling zebra foal in Timbavati Game Reserve, next to the Kruger National Park.
- DUST-UP – Another great image from Timbavati next to Kruger National Park. An elephant causes a miniature dirt storm by shaking mud and dust off its enormous head.
- JAUNTY ANGLE – Marcel Duvenage spent 45 minutes crawling over stepping stones at Makaranga Garden Lodge in greater Durban to capture this magical moment of a jaunty dropwing.