Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018: Featured Entries (5)

1. Moments before dusk at a swamp near the 'Avenue of the Baobabs' in western Madagascar © Pedro Ferreira do Amaral

2. A giraffe family cross over the plains in the Ndutu area in the north-western part of the Ngorongoro Conservation area, Tanzania © Shmuel Goldberg

3. A beautiful atmospheric sunset with elephants in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe © Greg Metro

4. Market day at the Himba tribe village, Namibia © Limor Bahar

5. A Maasai warrior jumps in Lolkisale, Arusha region, Tanzania © Ian Hanson

6. A blue shark just below the surface about 40km off Cape Point, South Africa © Geo Cloete

7. A frenzy of dolphins off the coast of Cote d-Ivoire © Gary Krosin

8. A blue dusk elephant fight in Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Andreas Hemb

9. A flamingo takes off from a lake in Welkom, South Africa © Willem Kruger

10. Zebras and giraffes in Etosha National Park, Namibia © Andrea Galli

11. The White Desert in Al Farafrah, Egypt © Sepp Friedhuber

12. Close up of baby gorilla feet in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda © Prelena Soma Owen

13. A Maasai child in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania © Ayala Fishaimer

14. A food stall in the busy square of Jemaa el-Fna in Marrakesh, Morocco © Miguel De Freitas

15. Oryx walk by one of the highest sand dunes in Sossusvlei, Namibia © Kina Joubert

16. Wet baboons after the rain in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Annemarie du Plessis

17. A tractrac chat hovers in front of the sun in Swakopmund, Namibia © Chantelle Bosch

18. Three young cheetah make their way across a road in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa © Martin Meyer

19. Sleepy ground squirrels at the entrance to their burrow in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Gerda van Schalkwyk

20. 'Pangolin landscape' in Etosha National Park, Namibia © Anton Kruger

21. Catching the sunrise while hot air ballooning over the awakening Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Arnaud Legrand

22. A vulture patiently waits for dinner in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Michele Cabria

23. Porcelain crab in Rocktail Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa © Peet J. van Eeden

24. A yellow variant of the feather duster worm in False Bay, Cape Peninsula, South Africa © Peet J. van Eeden

25. Hippos cool off in the water in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Gilberto Costa

26. A young baobab tree hangs on through the flood waters of the Epupa Falls, Kunene River, Namibia © Randal Hinz

27. A four-day-old white lion cub is carried by its mother in Ngala Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Daryl Dell (Instagram/daryldellsafaris)

28. A lioness carries her cub in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Jose Fragozo

29. Elephant bathing at Moremi, Botswana © Gerbus Vermaak

30. Explosive hippo showdown in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia © Jeff Harrisberg

31. "Curiosity" – a camera left alone, clicking away, draws the curiosity of three lion cubs in a private concession adjacent to Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Albie Venter

32. A cape fur seal at Walvis Bay, Namibia © Limor Bahar

33. Una mangosta enana se asoma de un tronco en savuti, Botsuana © Adam d. Barnard

34. A herd of elephants dig for water in a dry riverbed in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Arno Pietersen

35. A leopard quenches her thirst in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania © Olli Teirilä

36. A cheetah flicks her tail in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © India Bulkeley

37. A family of baboons take a playful break in South
Luangwa National Park, Zambia © Evert Doorn

38. A monkey drinks at a waterhole in Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Johan J. Botha

39. An eland and giraffe drink together in Etosha National Park, Namibia © Johan J. Botha

40. "Looking through a giraffe's eye" in Nairobi National Park, Kenya © Swati Prasad Siddharth

41. A young pangolin walks towards the camera in Tswalu Kalahari Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Linda Oteri

42. A Mozambique spitting cobra in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia © Peter Geraerdts

43. "Circles…" a zebra grazes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana © Christoph Keidel

44. 'Gold, silver and bronze' – a crocodile in Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Alan Smith

45. A giraffe walks across the plains under a stormy sky in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Linda Oteri

46. Aerial view of Sossusvlei in Namibia © Panos Laskarakis

47. Portrait of a Samburu woman in northern Kenya © Vedran Vidak

48. Tubu nomad with livestock in Ennedi, northern Chad © Sepp Friedhuber

49. Senderismo el big daddy dune en el parque nacional de namib-Naukluft, Namibia © Mark timmermans

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