Submit your photos here

First Thing subscribers can send photographs to Daily Maverick for the Picture of the Day section. A submission link appears in the Picture of the Day section for subscribers.

Photography guidelines

Orient your camera horizontally in landscape format and send the highest resolution photo possible. Daily Maverick tries to be as inclusive as possible when publishing reader photos.

Weekly entry limit

Daily Maverick limits weekly entries to a maximum of twenty photographs. If your picture is not published, keep sending them in.

All subjects welcome

First Thing's John Stupart is very much a dog person, but Daily Maverick encourages all pictures. Amateur or professional photographers can include portfolio links or print options when submitting.

“we encourage all pictures”

Photographer credit and rights

By submitting a photo you give Daily Maverick permission to publish it on the site and in this format.You retain all rights to your work.Contact Daily Maverick to reuse, print or otherwise use subscriber photos.

This week's submissions

Readers submitted ten photographs this week, including Lloyd Munday's jewel on a twig, Ben Gubb's Table Mountain hike, Michael Swan's Johannesburg spring, and Megan Couperthwaite's morning tranquillity.

Diverse photography styles

Submissions included Tian Olivier's microscopic plastic photography, Emile Grundlingh's power cut in Kommetjie, LK MC GOWAN's rain clouds over Muizenberg, Michele P Hunter's space launch jellyfish effect, Steve Anderson's Kirstenbosch sunrise, and Tshepiso Seleke's portrait.