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Highlights from last year’s Nature’s Best Photography Africa competition.

The Nature’s Best Photography Africa competition celebrates wildlife photography from all over the continent. In 2017, the third instalment of the competition attracted a record 17 000 entries: 92 % more than the previous year! South Africans Brendon Cremer and Geo Cloete grabbed the top prizes. Brendon won African Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his portfolio, which featured the magnificent shot of southern carmine bee-eaters at sunset on p 72. Geo Cloete’s image of box jellyfish spiralling towards the ocean surface on p 75 won Photograph of the Year. The competition is run in conjunction with Iziko Museums and the winners were exhibited at the South African Museum in Cape Town from November 2017 until March 2018. “The aim of the competition is to foster a love for – and a desire to protect – Africa’s natural resources through photography and education,” says director Craig Mark. Prizes include photographic safaris to the Maasai Mara in Kenya, the Serengeti in Tanzania and Chobe National Park in Botswana. A combined exhibition from the Africa competition and its international cousin, the Nature’s Best Photography competition, will be shown at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC until September this year.

Want to enter the 2018 competition? Visit naturesbestphotographyafrica.com