Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2018

Bare trees dwarfed by the dunes in the Namib Desert near Sossusvlei, Namibia © Rachel Price

A baby gelada in the Semien Mountains, Ethiopia © Paolo Maccarone

Wildebeests at a river crossing in the Mara Triangle, Kenya © Engin Akış

Black-cheeked lovebirds in Little Chem Chem, Tanzania © Anthony Goldman

A leopard in South Africa © Joel Alves

A girl applies okra to her skin all by herself in Namibia © Cohan Zarnoch

A woodland kingfisher takes a bath in Makutsi Safari Springs, Hoedspruit, South Africa © Urs Niklaus

"Dusky zebras" in the Serengeti, Tanzania © Anthony Goldman

A well-camouflaged male barking gecko in Goegap Nature Reserve, Namaqualand, South Africa © Jörg Jager

"Last light leopard" in Savute, Chobe National Park, Botswana © Michael Jansen

The king during golden light in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya © Jaymin Patel

Ostrich chicks stick close to dad in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe © Rachel Price

"Don't make me blush!" – red-cheeked cordon-bleu waxbill at Little Chem Chem, Tanzania © Anthony Goldman

"Gentle giants" – humpback whales off Cape Town, South Africa © Dishen Govender

A Karo tribe child in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia © Paolo Maccarone

"Lioness with one eye, still a fierce

warrior" in Kruger National Park,

South Africa © Garry Mills

Juvenile whistling rat on the lookout in Goegap Nature Reserve, Namaqualand, South Africa © Jörg Jager

A baby elephant experiences the joy of the waterhole for the first time at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa © Rachel Price

Looking for the man on the moon in Namibia © Jashika Patel

'Centre stage' as the dust settles in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana/South Africa © Charlie Lynam

African buffalo at dawn in Chobe National Park, Botswana © Dominik Behr

'An African sunset dream' in Amboseli National Park, Kenya © George Dian Balan

Lion cub contemplating his kingdom in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Arnaud Legrand

Snack time for a Coquerel's sifaka in Anjajavy Forest, Madagascar © Bernard Leighton

A nyala bull soaks up the final moments of the sun in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa © Samuel Cox

'Two to tango' – sub-adult black-backed jackal pups play in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Matrishva Vyas

Oustalet's chameleon in action in Anja Community Reserve, Madagascar © Bernard Leighton

Mursi girl with traditional ornaments in Omo region, Ethiopia © Enrique Lopez-Tapia

Maternal background in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Andrei Daniel Mihalca

Saddle-billed stork fishing in Lake Naivasha, Kenya © Matrishva Vyas

An ostrich in the dust near Leeudril waterhole, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa/Botswana © Willem Kruger

A lioness has an evening drink after

failing to catch some speedy impalas

in Kruger National Park, South

Africa © Ryno Vosloo

A juvenile bataleur comes in for a landing in

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana/South

Africa © Marc de Chalain

A brown-hooded kingfisher

dwarfed by an elephant

background in Kruger

National Park, South

Africa © Samuel Cox

'Through the eye of a zebra' in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Gianluca D'Amico

'Fury' in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Renata Ewald

The foot of a Zanzibar red colobus, Zanzibar © Paul Boyland

'The march of man' in Nairobi National Park, Kenya © Diana Knight

A double-banded sandgrouse chick on the side of a road at Masuwe Lodge, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe © Blade Bester

"Airborne" in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa © Charmaine Joubert

Up close with a chameleon in Sapo National Park, Liberia © Gianluca D'Amico

A white baboon in Arusha National Park, Tanzania © Charlie Lynam

'Protected' – a female leopard

survived the onslaught of

human snares – rescued,

treated and returned to her

cubs in Kruger National Park,

South Africa © Renata Ewald

Two iconic tuskers flank a younger 'askari' in East Africa © George Dian Balan

Two young lionesses engage in vigorous play

on the banks of the Khwai River, Moremi

Game Reserve, Botswana © Anja Denker

'The smile' – a silverback mountain gorilla in

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

© Andy Edge

'The Thinker' – chimpanzee in Kibale National Park, Uganda © Yaron Schmid

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