Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2019: Winners

1. Eraine van Schalkwyk-Jumping spider in folded leaf Greater Kruger
WINNER – 2019 AFRICA GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

2. 2019 AFRICA GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: WINNERS

3. FIRST RUNNER-UP :Bob Ditty-happy couple Uganda

4. SECOND RUNNER-UP: Jens Cullmann – “A lion drags an elephant calf under a tree to feed after
it was killed by two lions the previous night, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe.”

5. HIGHLY COMMENDABLE FINALISTS

6. Daniel Koen – “Lion cubs look up at their mother while at a wildebeest kill in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa.”

7. Angelia Young-Tikki Hywood Foundation
Rescue and release pangolins in Cameroon

8. Hesté de Beer – “A white rhino calf refuses to leave its mother after she was darted for a dehorning, South Africa.”

9. Sunset illuminates elephants as they roam the Okavango Delta, Botswana © Panos Laskarakis

10. A portrait of a Wodaabe dancer caught by the light of the sun, Chad © Trevor Cole

11. A leopardess looks towards the tree where she left her kill the night before in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Randall Ball

12. Scaly-feathered finch chicks in southern Namib Desert, Namibia © Sanet Rossouw

13. Michiel Duvenhage-Jackal flying to catch breakfast Kgalagadi

14. Geo Cloete-Portuguese Man o War False Bay

15. “Pre-dawn with red-billed queleas” in Zakouma National Park, Chad © Michael Lorentz

16. Hubert Janiszewski-Leopard tortoise with a swarm of brown veined butterflies Botswana

17. Salt caravans begin their westward journey after sunset in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia © Hesté de Beer

18. Patrice Quillard – Geladas are found in the Ethiopian
Highlands, especially in the Simien Mountains National
Park.

19. An elephant calf is picked up by its mother after falling into a waterhole in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa © Cornel Eksteen

20. Yaron Schmid-grevy’s illusion Lewa Kenya

21. Juvenile Cape foxes suckle on their mother in Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa © Hesté de Beer

22. “The wolf amongst the sheep” – a painted wolf (African wild dog) with its
pack in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Ross Couper

23. “A moment of thought” – Bwindi Impenetrable
National Park, Uganda © Dalida Innes

24. A hippo surfaces out of the water at speed in Chobe National Park, Botswana © Deena Sveinsson

25. An eyed-flower mantis mimics flower petals to give it advantage over potential predators in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa © Tanya Nadauld

26. “Master of camouflage” – a puff adder in Kruger
National Park, South Africa © Theo Busschau

27. On a hot day an epauletted fruit bat mother lets her young catch a breeze in her open wing to
help cool it down, Balule Private Nature Reserve, South Africa © Anna-Carina Nagel

28. Dust fills the air as wildebeest make their way across the Mara River in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Tania Cholwich

29. A goshawk takes off with a meerkat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Prof. Gert Lamprecht

30. A muddy rhino in a reserve in
South Africa © Kevin Dooley

31. “This male leopard retrieved his warthog kill from
a spotted hyena. Here he is running with the kill
away from the hyena towards a tree.” – Kruger
National Park, South Africa © Ernest Porter

32. Portrait of a spotted hyena, Kruger National Park, South Africa © Ian Ground

33. “Watching me, watching you” – Okavango Delta, Botswana © Clare Doolan

34. A young mountain gorilla from the Nkuringo family group waits out the rain
shower in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda © Bruce Miller

35. Fishermen at sunrise on the Chobe River, Chobe, Botswana © Johan Van Rensburg

36. An Ethiopian mountain man with his horse, Ethiopia © Kevin Dooley

37. A Mursi woman in Omo Valley, Ethiopia © Janet Regan

38. AUDIENCE FAVOURITE WINNERS: Steve Pressman – “A
lioness peers out from behind a tree in MalaMala Game
Reserve, South Africa.”

39. FACEBOOK FAVOURITE: “A giraffe mother with her calf in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.”

40. INSTA FAVOURITE: Nick du Plessis (@nick_dup) – “A
lioness with her tongue sticking out in Singita, Sabi
Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa.”

41. END11-MAYO-2019