Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
Welcome to the 126th round of my special weekly photo challenge known as Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun :)
I know a lot of photo contests with nature as the main theme were/are/will be hosted by various people on the Hive blockchain but I wanted to come up with something more than just another photo contest where participants would submit their best natural photos. Therefore, I decided to go for quite an unusual concept that I am going to introduce in the following lines.
The aim of the Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun photo challenge is not to make you dig up your photo archives and submit the best pictures of nature that you have ever taken. Instead, I want you guys to go out and appreciate the beauty of our nature right now.
The internet (and the Hive blockchain as well) is flooded with picture perfect shots of landscapes, mountains, forests, beaches etc. taken years ago. But this is not what I want to see in this challenge. I want to see shots that may not be necessarily stunning but they must be fresh, proving that you have just physically spent some time outdoors in the fresh air. But remember that nature comes in many forms. It doesn´t have to be a pristine jungle or a deep remote forest. An urban park, a botanical garden, a little grove on the outskirts of your town - pretty much any place with some trees, plants, rocks, bodies of water or any other natural features would be just as fine ;)
Obviously, there is no way for me to verify whether the photo that you submit in the challenge is really fresh or if it was even taken by you so I am relying on your honesty guys. The prizes for the winners (as described below) are more symbolical than overly motivating so I don´t expect too much fraudulent behavior in this challenge anyway.
I want to keep the rules of this challenge as simple and benevolent as possible so let´s agree on just this:
Only one entry (photo) per person per round.
The photo must be yours and not older than one week.
Add a few words about the photo, at least where and when you took it.
You can start submitting your entries to this round in the comment section below from now until the next round.
Prior to publishing the next round post, I will pick 3 winners, give my full upvote on their entries and feature them in the next round of the challenge. As long as the response is not too overwhelming, I will also try to give some smaller upvotes on all of the other entries to reward all participants.
I might change the concept and/or the rules of the photo challenge later on, depending on how things go. I usually host the challenge on Thursday but when needed for some reason, I can host it on some other day so better check my blog regularly not to miss out on it ;)
To keep up with you guys, I submit my own fresh natural photo to every round´s post too :) Here is my contribution to start out this round:
Lately, I have been hiking a lot around the beautiful Prokop Valley here in Prague, Czech Republic and it was during one of my recent hikes over there last Saturday when I took this close up picture of what I believe is the Red Admiral. This handsome fella was just basking in the afternoon sun on the upper rocky edge of the valley and he didn´t really care much about me and my camera so I could take this photo from a relatively short distance. I actually took a lot of panoramic pictures of the valley from the edge too and you can definitely expect them to show up in some of my future posts.
In the last round, we had 9 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
@brittandjosie with this entry from the Netherlands:
This is my contribution, I could have done the bumblebee or the hedgehog that I also captured this week but this momma and her calf (thickbackcows) are this week´s entry. Location: the cow fields in Rotterdam, Holland.
@friendlymoose with this entry from the Netherlands:
Very nice submissions again! And also a nice snail @phortun. My contribution for this week is this lovely bright pink coloured dahlia in my backyard in the Netherlands, I took this a few days ago. I bought and planted a 'bees and butterflies' mix in spring which results in beautiful flowers.
@bloghound with this entry from the Philippines:
Hello and good evening from the Philippines @phortun my friend. It's ironic I came across here through @friendlymoose's post and fortunately earlier this afternoon just about when the rain pours, I saw one butterfly who kept roaming around my Red Hardy plant. And to be honest, I am a huge fan of butterflies since I was a kid. I think this tiny friend wanted to get noticed. Too magnificent not to. Please wave hello. Photo taken using my Canon EOS 2000d on July 12, 2022. Thank you!
Congratulations guys! It was my pleasure to give you 100% upvotes on your entries :)
I am looking forward to what you will come up with in this round.
Have fun and appreciate the beauty of nature!
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My entry:
Is rather a funny one. I took this photo last Saturday in a city we never walked through but only visited the big grocery store like we do every Saturday. But this time we decided let’s park under the store our car and walk out to see part of the old “town” of the city. Algeciras in Spain.
We came across a rather large park and the shade of the very tall trees were truly welcome as the temperature is only rising in the middle of the summer here. 🥵
Walking a bit further we saw this seagull sitting on this pilar. As we approached it made a funny noise… as to say: “nope not moving human… you find yourself another spot in the shade” hahahaha it was funny. It gave us a look 👀 lol
We wandered of course a bit further and sat on a bench before we headed over into the town further and had some tapas for lunch. Later heading back to the store for grocery shopping and driving home.
It was an interesting visit to this city.
Hope you can chuckle 🤭 too @phortun 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 of this funny seagull.
Haha that´s a cool story, I love it! :) And I like the photo too of course. Great entry, thank you!
Thank you so much @phortun 🤩😎 you are welcome, when we go out and about I join 😉
Have an awesome Tuesday!
I would like to contribute this woolly burdock (or "Filz-Klette" how we call it in germany🙂) that I came across yesterday. On my way towards the forest I saw this interesting looking plant in a side ditch and took this photo with a 70-200 f2.8 lens.
Beautiful close up! I recently took a few shots of the same plant hehe :) Thanks for your entry, greetings to Germany!
Congratulations to all the winners 🎉😊🥰
I took this photo two days ago, while enjoying the sunset.
From: Bangladesh
Beautiful scene, thanks for sharing it with us :)
This is my entry for this week round.
Another beach from Malaysia :
I taking this picture at the Tanjung Aru beach 2 days ago . This is one my running trail in at the beach . There is not many people at the morning in this beach , but it will different in evening because this place will full of people who bring their family and having their bonding time here. ;).
Thanks for sharing this great picture with us but unfortunately, the winners were alredy picked when you submitted this entry. Please, next time, try to submit your entry by Wednesday evening, European time ;)
Omg .. ahaha.. Happening to me twice . It's ok. I ll try to submit it after you do the announcement . It was +8 GMT in my area. !LOLZ
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I post the new round on Thursday and it´s open until the next round next Thursday but I have to pick the winners and upvote the entries one day before the new round because the entries would be too old to upvote if I did it on Thursday :) I hope you understand what I mean.
Ok ok .. So the entry have to submit at least in wednesday. Noted noted. ;). I ll be aware in next post . By the way, thanks for always hosting it :). Much appreciate from me
Cool, I will be looking forward to your entries :)
Hi mate. This photo from Darlık Lake in Istanbul where I went few weeks ago. People can do picnic as well as camping there. It itself is just the nature.
There we go! You promised an entry and you delivered a good one indeed :) I just hope you meant a few days ago and not weeks ago because that would be too old for the contest :D :(
No mate, few weeks ago. I could have posted earlier, but I didn't as it is somehow recent photo. However, if it is too old for the contest I can delete it. I think it would be better to extend the duration like one month ;)
There are many contests here on Hive where you can submit old photos so the requirement about the entries here being max 7 days old is actually what makes this contest special and it´s also the main point of it - to motivate people to go out and appreciate the beauty of nature regularly, at least once every week ;) From the feedback I get on this contest, I know that some participants really feel motivated to go out and take some nice fresh photos of nature every week, which is amazing and by changing the rule and accepting older photos, I would ruin all of this. I hope you understand. But your picture is great and I´m glad you enjoyed some nice time at that beautiful lake so of course I will upvote your photo too, just it cannot be one of the winners ;)
Very nice entries thank you and i love there are two representatives from my lovely country
Ooooh, lovely reflection of the cows @brittandjosie 👍
Congrats Britt, that is indeed cool!
Honestly, I didn´t realize I picked two shots from the Netherlands until I was making the winner announcement :) I usually try to have winners from 3 different countries but the entries of yours and @friendlymoose were really good so yeah, this round was the Dutch round! :) Congrats again, great representation of your country guys.
So cool and Holland has it all
Congrats to the winners.I may join the contest this time ;)
Cool, I will be on the lookout for your entry :)
Beautiful 😍
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Thank you my friend!
Congratulations to the winners 🤩🥳 great entries!
Have a great week further 👋🏻☀️😁
Thanks for stopping by, have an amazing weekend! :)
You are welcome, happy to engage and be involved 😉😎
Thank you so much @phortun you too, enjoy the weekend!
Wow nice contest
Thanks, feel free to join ;)
Nature is undoubtedly beautiful in all ramifications.
This are very lovely submissions.
Thanks for checking them out, feel free to join the new round ;)