Here’s the latest selection of the best readers’ photographs submitted to the Getaway Gallery Photographic Competition in association with Canon for September 2018.
Getaway Gallery is a prestigious showcase of the best photographs our readers have to offer. We have exciting prizes to be won this year worth nearly R150000, from equipment through to a dream trip to Madagascar.
Vote for your favourite image
Every month, you can also vote for your favourite image over on our Facebook page and the winner gets a year’s subscription to Getaway. Vote here.
Send us your photographs
Our 2018 Getaway Gallery Competition in association with Canon is now open with fantastic travel and equipment prizes up for grabs! Here’s how to send us your photographs.
Sunrise drinks by Prof Gert Lamprecht
I captured the scene at about 6 in the morning at the Sitzas Waterhole, near the Mata-Mata camp, in the Kgalgadi Trans Frontier Park. The rising sun through dust in the air as well as the dark Camel thorn trees formed an ideal backdrop. It requires perfect timing as well as some luck to capture the familiar water pattern when the Giraffe lifts its head from the water. A backlit scene is almost imperative to obtain the atmosphere of this image. The composition, where three other Giraffes balance the action part, was a very welcome bonus.
-By Prof Gert Lamprecht, Bloemfontein Free State South Africa
Canon EOS-1D, Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM, ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/6000 sec
