Hello Nature Lovers !
I would like to cordially invite you to another great week of the Amazing Nature Contest. There were already so many excellent entries regarding how amazing nature can be in the past episodes, thanks to all of you, but there is still so much more to see! ^^ To participate in the #amazingnature contests just create a post that shows how amazing nature is for you personally. This can be anything from a beautiful flower or animal to an astonishing sunset.
What is the Purpose of the Contest ?
I am a huge lover of nature and really enjoy to take pictures of all the lovely things that surround me every day, no matter if those are plants, animals or landscapes. I found Steemit to be a brilliant place to find and watch nature pictures from all over the world. There is such a diversity of great content out there, thanks to all of you, from different perspectives and out of various motivations. I would like to collect all those beautiful snapshots and their amazing stories in a weekly compilation so that you can all benefit from the beauty that we are facing all the time, but so often are not able to appreciate in the modern and fast paced times we are living in.
This #amazingnature contest is at home in the DNA-Discord, a organization run by people for the people, with the aim to foster and densify nature-appreciation in the blockchain. DNA is also the home of the #featheredfriends hosted by amazing @melinda010100 🦢.
Contest Rules :
- Please join the Community and POST your entry INTO the AMAZING NATURE COMMUNITY. This makes it a part of it and visible to all other members of the community. You can add the #amazingnature TAG after it if you like.
- CLEARLY MENTION that your post is an ENTRY for this contest.
- All pictures have to be your own. You can use the amazing nature banner if you like or create your own.
- STATE IN THE TEXT why those pictures are representing YOUR AMAZING NATURE. This is an ESSENTIAL part of this contest.
- Drop the LINK to your post IN THE COMMENTS. You can add a picture if you like. It is NECESSARY as I have to post a link in Discord on Friday, 5 days later for voting and also for my own compiling purposes.
- The entry window is open for ~ 5 DAYS. Watch out for the -CLOSED in the title.
If you miss the entry, please wait for the next round. As I have to work and also a family to manage, there are no fixed UTC times and the window can open in a wide range between 10 am - 10 pm and therfore also close accordingly ^^
- The AMAZING NATURE COMMUNITY is there FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT THE AMAZING NATURE AROUND YOU that are not necessarily a contest entry. We would highly appreciate it if you share your great nature content there with us! .. But the contest is also located in this community as an integrated part and special feature .. You can also still use the #amazingnature tag if you like.
Possible Topics :
As nature covers an incredible wide range there is really anything possible. Amazing Natures categories could be anything from the following topics:
- Botany
- Zoology
- Geology
- Landscapes
- Philosophy
- ... Surprise us ^^
Prizes to Win :
- 1st Place : 3 SBI
- 2nd Place : 2 SBI
- 3rd Place : 1 SBI
I will always try my best to link and present all participants of Amazing Nature in the entries section of the announcement posts that will be published roughly one week later on Sunday (depending on my time schedule this may shift some time ^^). This way you will have a nice compilation of them all. As an special feature, the new title picture of the contest will be created from the entry of the contest winner. This time it is from @insense.
How are the Winners chosen ?
The voting for the winners will be done by the whole DNA community. Therefore we created a special contest channel in the DNA Discord (Amazing Nature Contest). Here I will post the announcement post including the winners (Announcements) EACH SUNDAY together with all your entries (Entries) EACH FRIDAY. Every member of DNA will be able to assign "voting emojies" under the entries for 24 HOURS and in the end those three with the most of them are the lucky winners. This I hope should lead to a more objective consideration than just involving myself as a judge. I will engage as a judge in case of a draw ^^
Clickable Banner created by @barbara-orenya
THIS WEEKS WINNERS
The winner of this weeks contest is @insense with his amazing entry and outstanding picture about how amazing nature can be. I really really love this picture ^^ This Steemian is quite fresh here on the blockchain, but already found the way into the Steem Termianl and Amazing Nature Communities and shows to be very promising. In this picture we can witness the caring of a ant over another. This elder ant was moving the ill-affected child to a safe place very carefully careful. Here we get so beautifully reminded about the care we always get from out parents, especially out mothers. They actually are the most precious thing in one's life and and always took the best care on us. Thank you for this amazing moment of care in the world of our smallest friends on earth ;)
@insense
Here we have a great entry by @thebigsweed about Ospreys. We even get some great information about this amazing raptor too which I do not want to withheld from you, also I just briefly summarize it ^^ Ospreys are usually found in areas close to water as they are on an exclusive diet of fish. They have a unique ability to dive into the water feet first to catch their prey with their huge talons. Their nests are placed in the open and Ospreys add to their nest every year. Those are10–13 feet deep and 3–6 feet in diameter are common and are big enough for a human to sit in. The Osprey can have a wing span up to 71 inches and during its 15-to-20-year lifetime, an Osprey may fly more than 160,000 miles. This is a really nice and informative entry we got here and if you want to know more, like for example about the currents problems that the Osprey population is facing, then just look up this post one @thebigsweed´s blog. Thank you very much for this entry ;)
@thebigsweed
Here we have another entry about an amazing bird from @zhanavic69. It is about the Cari-Cari. This birds a very typical in the region where she comes from, which is Ciudad Bolivar, in Venezuela. The was so lucky to have a camera good enough, with a proper zoom, so she could picture those two Cari-Cari. They were just sitting on the palm tree and she imagined what they could be talking about. Thank you very much for this cute entry and for joining us on or adventure in Amazing Nature ;)
@zhanavic69
HONORABLE MENTIONS
@nelinoeva
@belkisa758
@jesuslnrs
@porters
@mllg
@whatisnew
@dzoji
@seadbeady
FEATURING
This weeks feature is about @nadjette. I found here as she was posting into the Amazing Nature community for quite a while now. Thank you so much for joining us there ^^ I looked up her blog and saw that is was stuffed with beautiful pictures of flowers, insects and fungi of all kind. Also she is not a person of many words, I really like her photography and know that some of you will definitely like it too. So here are some example pictures of our weekly feature. Please enjoy them ^^
@nadjette
Amazing Nature Community
Clickable Banner created by @barbara-orenya
You all asked for one and here it is, the AMAZING NATURE COMMUNITY. It is dedicated to all you Nature Lovers out there, no matter if Zoology, Botany, Landscapes or Philosophy ^^ You will also find many entries to the contest in there. It has the #hive-127788 tag and you can find it here:
This community is there FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT THE AMAZING NATURE AROUND YOU. Currently I have 44 Nature Lovers on the autovote, which is set to 17% for 1 daily upvote at the moment. I still reserve some voting power for manual curating on nature content when needed.
Previous Participants :
I thank all of you who participated and voted this week and hope that you enjoyed the Amazing Nature Contest. I am looking forward to more excellent content every week ^^. Of course this format is open for all kind of critics that can increase the quality of the contest and I am always happy about anyone who wants to join us on this little adventure.
@akinome @alexanderfluke @alinix @annamarina @annephilbrick @apnigrich @artofwisdom @angelro @antoniarhuiz @atomcollector @bahttg @belkisa758 @bigsambucca @brittandjosie @bucipuci @careassaktart @cocolefleur @davidesimoncini @derekrichardson @dkkarolien @dzoji @elkezaksek @ellenripley @engrsayful @farm-mom @haastrecht @gingbabida @hangin @iamraincrystal @insense @ireenchew @irvet @isabelpena @jesuslnrs @joanstewart @joebtc @johannpiber @julianhorack @justclickindiva @kamrunnahar @karbon @kheys @letalis-laetitia @lighteye @leslierevales @lisfabian @manojbhatt @manuelramos @mariacaffrey @melinda010100 @mers @mintymile @misschance @mllg @molometer @myjob @mysteriousroad @nelinoeva @nilom @ninahaskin @offgridlife @paradigm42 @phortun @porters @qwerrie @redheadpei @sarimanok @sayee @sallybeth23 @seadbeady @sunscape @s3rg3 @thebigsweed @theoctoberwind @thesobuz @travelsbyblue @trincowski @viking-ventures @whatisnew @wongbraling @zhanavic69
If you want me to take you out of the list, or if you don't want your picture, in the case you are the winner, to be used as a new title picture, just let me know about it in the comments.
Dedicated to all Nature Lovers out there, no matter if Zoology, Botany, Landscapes or Philosophy ^^
DNA - Densifying Nature-Appreciation
DNA is an organization, managed by @medro-martin, to foster and DENSIFY NATURE-APPRECIATION which aims to establish REPORTS OF BIODIVERSITY DATA that is contributed by all of us Steemians and subsequently cataloged.
Therefore DNA searches for HIGH-QUALITY posts that aim to DESCRIBE and determine the BIODIVERSITY AROUND YOU with added EXPLANATIONS and INFORMATIONS. For these informative posts they offer a CURATION SERVICE using the @dna.steem account. It is also a CURATION TRAIL. Just add the #dna TAG if you think that any of your posts is what they are looking for.
At the moment DNA is also the home of the #amazingnature contest for all your post about the amazing nature all around us and also the home of the #featheredfriends hosted by the lovely @melinda010100 🦢 for all you great posts about our feathered friends ^^ But we hope that more nature related communities will join, or maybe some Steemians start their own little project there ;) .. Maybe even you?
If you are INTERESTED in DNA, please do not hesitate to ask about it, or directly JOIN US in the DNA DISCORD ;)
"By The People, For The People"
Steem Terminal & Discord
There is another initiative here on Steem that I would like to bring close to you as I absolutely love them, the Steem Terminal:
It is a great location for LEARNING ABOUT STEEM, Discord, and Steem-related communities, full of nice people that you may ask if you need ASSISTANCE, with nearly everything ^^ You will find documents to assist you, a place to learn and practice, and find out about the many opportunities to form CONNECTIONS with other Steemians.
It also host the REDFISH RALLY, a funny challenge for all those that are new here to the world of Steem. The Terminal also hosts the HEYHAVEYAMET project by @heyhaveyamet, which introduces all new steemians on a daily basis, so that you don't have to search for them ^^
So why not joining us in the STEEM TERMINAL DISCORD? You will not regret it ^^
"Your one-stop location for learning about destinations in the Steem blockchain and Discord"
Best wishes,
Adalger
Hey there everyone !!
Another exiting week of Amazing Nature is starting right now ;) .. I thank everyone for their great entries is the last week. There were many new participants this round which I am super happy about ^^ .. Lets just wait for all those amazing entries of March #03 edition, hehe :) .. and please remember post post your entries into the community and to leave a link in this post here !
This said I wish you all the best and a great new week,
Adalger
Congratulations to the lucky winners! Eager to share again!
Hey there. Would be nice to see an entry from you ^^ .. I am waiting for it, hehe ;)
Some wonderful photography in nature and congratulations to all who entered.
Thank you for one area to share our wonderful world in.
@tipu curate
Hehe, this time there were really nice entries again ^^ .. I really love the one from @insense .. Its an amazing picture and a great one regarding the spirit of amazing nature itself ;) .. Thank you very much for the tip @seadbeady !
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 0/10 - need recharge?)
I sooo much love your drawings @barbara-orenya ^^ .. I am so glad that you drew the banner for me ;)
I'm glad you like the banner @adalger ! ^_^ I see you use it a big amount of time in one post, people gonna hate seeing it in short time 😃
I should have tell you first time, so it's my bad but, could you add this line under it, so as the source always be clearly mentioned ? 😊
This will avoid anyone to get problem when using the banner , I have seen people of the community using the banner, which is just fine and precisely the aim of support it was created for, just it should always come with the source, and this phrase makes it so to speak my permission to use... 😉
and likewise, I will be called on the post by the mention...😊
banner created by @barbara-orenyaOh my god!!! My heart beat got increased by seeing that my click in the thumbnail. I am so glad to see I am the winner of previous Contest. Thank you so much @adalger sir for hosting this awesome contest. Can't wait to submit my entry for this week!
You really deserved it @insense. This was an amazing entry ^^ That is truly amazing nature ;) .. Thank you so much for having entered !
Esta publicación ha sido seleccionada para el reporte de Curación Diaria.
Gracias 😊
siempre a su orden
Felicitaciones a los ganadores y también a los participantes de este maravilloso concurso, es un placer para mi participar a promocionar las bondades de la naturaleza. Saludos, pronto estaré con ustedes nuevamente.
Hi there! Here's my entry:
https://partiko.app/sarimanok/appics-v1-appics-im-112879?referrer=sarimanok
Posted using Partiko Android
Thank you for your intense red entry @sarimanok ^^
Beautiful photos. Congratulations to all the winners.
Hehe, there are some really great moments captured this time 😉
:-)
Nice selection and congrats to all.
Hey there ^^ .. There are many newcomers in here this time with some amazing pictures ;)
Hiii🙂
https://steemit.com/hive-127788/@dzoji/hacquetia-epipactis
Thank you for this amazing and super beautiful Hacquetia epipactis ^^
Thank you 😊
Congratulations to everyone who was recognized for providing quality content in #amazingnature. Thanks @adalgar for the opportunity to share what we find as amazing with like minded people.
Here is my post for round #3. Thanks again for your support.
https://steemit.com/amazingnature/@thebigsweed/diy-how-to-make-maple-syrup
That is an amazing post you shared ^^ .. Really great and a super post for amazing nature 👌 .. But please read the rules for submittion into the contest😉
Congratulations to the winners!
Hereis my entry for this week
https://esteem.app/hive-127788/@nelinoeva/birds-in-the-parkf3aaf1d98dea8est
Thank you @nelinoeva for this great entry about the woodpecker in action 😁
Guao gracias a mis Cari-Cari... y al jurado, feliz de pertenecer a esta comunidad, ya veran mas publicaciones gane o no, lo mas imprtante es compartir nuestros trabajos...
https://steempeak.com/amazingnature/@photobook/wild-boar-squeaker-or-like-we-in-german-say-frischling-amazing-nature-contest
Thank you for this super cute entry for the contest. Very cute little baby boar ^^
This post was chosen to be voted by THEUNION.
Thank you for the upvote 🤗
Hello..!!
@adalger
My entry
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https://steemit.com/hive-127788/@annephilbrick/2vscve-amazing-nature
Thank you for this suuuper cute entry about the chipmunk 🐿️😍
https://steemit.com/hive-127788/@engrsayful/participating-to-amazing-nature-contest-march-2020-03
Here is my Participation...
Thank you @engrsayful for another entry of yours full of amazing views to admire 😁
Friends.
With this photograph I show curiosity, attention and love for nature. I feel very happy to have found a community like yours.
https://steemit.com/hive-127788/@oizaguirres/love-and-hunger-amazing-nature-contest-marzo-2020
Hey there @oizaguirres 😉 .. I am glad that you like the community. We are always happy about new members and hope you will like it here with us 🤗.. Welcome 🎉