28 June 2015
June's 10 top wildlife photos snapped by Sunday Times readers
- A herd of zebra in the Masai Mara, Kenya, debate whether the lion is really asleep.
- "Early one morning driving down the Auob river bed, I stopped at a waterhole that had not been working for days. When the resident gemsbok group strolled down toward the waterhole to lick salt off the rock, I captured the golden dust they kicked up with the sun on their backs."
- lion and elephant
- lions
- bird
- Shark-fin soup, says photographer Geo Cloete, is still enjoyed by many in the East, especially China. "Luckily there is growing pressure to see an end to this unsustainable practice. With this photo, I aimed to create a unique portrait of a blue shark at the Canyon off Cape Point, something that would speak of their beauty and power."
- Meerkats on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan in Botswana, watching the setting sun.
- A darkling beetle sucking the juices out of a mealworm, Eagle's Nest Camp, Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana.
- A ghost mantis nymph (or baby) at Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. They only grow to a maximum size of around 5cm. These beauties are found throughout much of Africa and Madagascar. They are called ghost mantises because of their ability to disappear into the vegetation like a ghost.
- A rhino bull photographed in Mpumalanga. The exact location has been withheld to not reveal the animal's exact position.
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Here are the winning shots and other top contenders from the June entries in the Sunday Times Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2015
Snapped a striking wildlife photo? Enter it now
Whether you’ve snapped a school of fish while scuba diving or a member of the Big Five while on a game drive, we’d love to see your incredible wildlife photos. Enter this competition and you could win your share of R255 000 in prizes courtesy of Sunday Times Travel Weekly and Wild Eye.
How this competition works
- Whether you’re a professional or amateur photographer, you’ll have the opportunity to enter up to 10 of your wildlife photographs every month up until November 27 2015.
- Each month a winning photograph will be selected from the entries received. The photographer who snapped it will be named the Sunday Times Wildlife Photographer of the Month and receive a R5 000 cash prize, courtesy of Sunday Times Travel Weekly. Congratulations to June’s Wildlife Photographer of the Month, Lizet Grobbelaar.
- Each of the 10 monthly winners will also be in the running to be named the Sunday Times Wildlife Photographer of the Year and win one of three grand prizes valued at a total of over R200 000. These include luxury photo safaris to Kenya’s Masai Mara, plus an expert-led photo workshop at Madikwe Game Reserve’s The Bush House, courtesy of Wild Eye.
- The overall winner, first and second runners-up will be selected by an expert judging panel and announced in December 2015. (Read the full terms and conditions.)
Visit Sunday Times Travel Weekly's Facebook page to see more of this months entries.