7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - Tuesday of Antarctica and world´s oceans week #21 - the absolute winner takes 200 SBD!

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Hello fellow Steemians!

Welcome to my 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - Tuesday of Antarctica and world´s oceans - where the winner of the weekly round will be able to participate for the total of 200 SBD! Today, you can participate by submitting your personal pictures from your travels to the continent of Antarctica. I am also adding world´s oceans to the same challenge to allow more Steemians to compete in this contest.

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Beautiful sunrise over the sea and jetty in the Maldives, Indian Ocean. Source: Shutterstock, author: Filip Fuxa

Your entries need to be submitted by 8 AM Central European Time in order to be considered for the challenge with a description of approximately 30 to 50 words. Only use of personal images will be accepted and only one picture can be submitted for a daily photo challenge. Ten winning photos will receive a bigger upvote from me and ten runners-up will get a smaller one.

Chosen from the ten winning entries, the absolute winner of the day will receive extended publicity in my post tomorrow morning. I will also visit his/her blog to upvote one of the most recent posts. The winning picture of the daily challenge will then automatically enter other rounds with the absolute winner gaining approximately 200 SBD in total.

Please see the winners of the previous contests of the week and give them your support if you like their images to be the one winning the weekly price and entering the other stages of the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge. You can vote for them by upvoting their winner announcement posts below:

7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Asian Sunday week #21 – winner announcement!

@kcaj88 Asian Sunday entry:

This is a photo that I took in Xinjiang, China. That's a Euphrates Poplar Forest which is about 6000 years old. Euphrates Poplar can live up to 3000 years old and even though the trees are dead, they can still stand for another 3000 years. I think they are tough and strong there for I took that pic.

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7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Australian Monday week #21 – winner announcement!

@stabilowl Australian Monday entry:

It was early evening and I was walking along the coastline at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney with my camera and tripod looking for something to shoot. I was almost at the end the the trail, close to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, when I was treated with this beautiful skyline of the City of Sydney, with all the colours reflecting on the water. I spend quite a bit of time there, perfecting my shots. And here is the best one.

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PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THE UPDATES OF RULES AND CONDITIONS OF THE PHOTO CHALLENGE BELOW. ONLY THE BEST 20 ENTRIES OF THE DAY WILL GET AN UVPOTE.

For more information about the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge and conditions see my original post: 200 SBD 7 World's Continents Photo Challenge - 2018 guidelines: 22/1 update


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This is another shot from my Christmas Day visit to Hermosa Pier just south of Los Angeles. I took photos from an hour or two before the sunset until darkness. While I love the darker orange as the sun set, the bright golden yellow really shows the beauty of this beach.
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What a shot Matt!


To continue the series of frozen Baltic Sea coastline, here is quite a special and minimalist shot of the stone completely frozen into the ice. Stunning colors of very very cold winter sunset, cause by still very high humidity of the air and unique singh-ray color polarizing filter mounted.

Totally phantasmagorical view

Enjoy it!


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nice shot axeman! those are incredible colors

wow this is nice place

@axeman, those colors are amazing. The composition on this is great, those rocks balance the photo perfectly. Incredible photo.

Beautiful! Minimalism at its best!

Red dragon over the icy mountain

Last week, at the same stage of this wonderful contest, I showed you how the Greenland icebergs look underwater. Yes, it certainly is a spectacular spectacle and even a little alien. But under the water there is absolutely no color. And everything looks a bit grim. So I decided this week to share one of my pictures with the top of the ice giant in the bright glow of the Greenland's sunset.

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Beautiful colours! It does look like a dragon!

Many thanks!!!

Well, this week is stunning as well! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!!!

Wooooow, those colours!!!

Meeting with Zeus over the open waters on a stormy evening near Darwin Australia. Dark clouds electrically charged from which purple lightning strikes up and down creating a fabulous show to watch from shore.

Location: Darwin, Australia.

What an image! Splendid!

:) thank you

I clicked this shot at Punta Arenas, the capital city of Chile's southernmost region - Magallanes and Antartica Chilena. Together with Ushuaia in Argentina and Christchurch in New Zealand, Punta Arenas is a common starting point for Antarctic expeditions. I didn't expect a splendid sunset like this in such a cold windy place. =)

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Beautiful sunset! I only had grey sky when I was there.

Thanks :) I was lucky that evening.

Beautiful sunset! Did you go on an Antarctic Expedition?

Not yet, I’ll wait till I have the time and budget ;)

This is the story of the greatest journey. Whales swim across the ocean to later produce offspring. And people fly across half the globe to see it. And then many hours at sea to see the whale far away. And if very lucky, then a few minutes in the water next to him.

Family of humpback whales. The Kingdom of Tonga is at the very edge of geography
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That is amazing! How long did you spend in the water to capture this? How deep did you have to go?

Usually a day on the boat in search of a whale takes about 10 hours. During this time in the water can be 30-50 minutes on average. The rest depends heavily on the behavior of whales and the weather. When the whales move, you spend only a few minutes in the water at one time. All this time you are actively rowing by your fins. If the whales are standing still, that is, the opportunity to swim nearby for 20-30 minutes.

Wow! So much effort to capture these stunning images! Really admirable!

That is amazing! How wonderful it must be to experience something like this!

Yes, in fact, this is one of the strongest impressions in the water.
Just a few minutes. But it's worth it.

This is sunset from Indian Ocean and Thai Island Koh-Phi. I came to this point day after day but all sunsets was different. I try to shot images with simular compostions and one idea, but can't. Because this place was completely different on different days although, it was the same place.

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Welcome to the challenge! You have made quite an entrance with this image! Absolutely stunning! I hope to see more from you. Tomas

Thanks! I will try not to miss the challenges :)

The lighthouse at Peggy's Cove warns ships away from the rocky Nova Scotia shore. I like to look for reflections when I'm at a lighthouse like this - there are often depressions in the rocks that hold sea water and keep it still.

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Sunrise at the beach Playa de la Tejita in Tenerife of the Canary Islands. The huge rock in the background is called La Montaña Roja. Unfortunately they started building large hotels at this former unspoiled and beautiful beach...

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You images are just out of this world! Thank you so much for your continued support of this challenge. Tomas

Thank You Tomas, for your support of the photographers here on steemit :)

Red morning on Ponta da Piedade


Ponta da Piedade is a very popular viewpoint in Algarve. I was scouting this place a day before this shot, and it was crowded even though December is offseason. When I woke up in the morning, it was raining, and clouds covered the sky. I had to drive 30 km one way to get to Ponta da Piedade, so it was a kinda hard decision to get off a warm bed and move to the unknown in not very exciting weather conditions. However, I jumped in my car and headed to Lagos. Soon I was regretting my long hesitations because the light started to appear and it was beautiful! Happily, I was at the site just in time to find the other 5 or 6 fellow photographers on the best places )) Anyway, there was still enough place for me.


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Have spent the whole summer in Lagos, it's an amazing place, especially if you go inside the caves :) Great shot!

What a stunning image! Wonderful!

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The Cook Islands is a tropical paradise in the middle of the pacific. The main island, Rarotonga, is a small island surrounded by turquoise water and white beaches. It is the perfect place for honeymoon. We went there for ours and it was so idyllic. Just strolling on the beach we were treated with beautiful scenery like this.

We have winter in Slovenia for almost 3 months now and I am missing summer time. I would love to repeat my last year’s holidays to Seychelles. Beaches there are simply fantastic. Photo below is from most famous beach on island La Digue, named Anse Source D'Argent.

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This is one of my favourite beaches. I've been camping here since I was 6 years old. Every year coming back to spend Chrismas at this place called Dwarswegstrand, part of the Garden Route, on the South Coast of South Africa!

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Jogging on the beach with sunset. This photo i capture with my Samsung Note 8 at Nai Harn beach. I love to come here to watch sunsets from beach. This place its like magical and always give me so much new energy.

On a recent trip to the Solomon Islands we came across some corals that were in the early stages of bleaching. Sadly, it is predicted that 90 percent of coral reefs will be in danger by 2030.
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This is the Atlantic Ocean near Tenerife, the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands. The island belongs to Macaronesia, a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the continents of Europe and Africa. The coasts of Tenerife are typically rugged and steep, particularly on the north of the island. This gives a nice contrast with the tranquil ocean.

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I watched this sunset on a summer day in the Seven Sisters cliffs in Eastbourne. The small building in the bottom right of the picture used to be a lighthouse, called The Belle Tout. It was partially destroyed in the WWII. It was rebuild in the 50's. Then it had to be moved because the erosion of the cliffs were getting too close to it. And now there is a new lighthouse in the area and this one became a hotel, of just one room. It must be great to stay there and have this sea view.

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Last summer I went to Barcelona, where I took this Picture. 😊😃 🌊
The Balearic Sea was really warm for a nice swim, except all the jellyfishes it was nearly perfect. Even though I got the sunburn of my life on this day, I'm pretty sure, that I will visit Barcelona again. :)

Thanks for organizing this Photo Challenges! 😃😊

I haven't been to Antarctica yet, but when I went to Crescent City, California this summer to see the Pacific Ocean, it felt cold enough to be in the arctic. The city was surrounded by fog so the beach had a thick layer of fog that went up into the forest and it added a surreal feeling to the whole experience, and once you got out of the city, the fog lifted and it was a beautiful blue sky.
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This is the famous Bondai Beach with the ocean pool. As you can see it's directly located next to the ocean where every surfer tries to conquer it's beautiful waves. That same ocean fills the pool and gives swimming in lane 1 an extra dimension.
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@czechglobalhosts I'm not sure if this meets the criteria. If it doesn't please help me, because I absolutly love these posts. And I didn't want to skip another day. Thanks

Yes, it does.... thank you for your participation. Tomas

Thanks for your reply. I hope to post every day. But the mondays and saturdays are hard since I haven't been in there!

If you climb 132 steps to top of the historic Celarain lighthouse in Cozumel you will see this breathtaking view! On a clear day, you can see all of Cozumel and even Playa Del Carmen in the distance. Steps are worth it!

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Papakolea Beach is one of 4 beaches with green sand in the world. You would need to hike down some rocks to get down to the beach but once you are there, you will be amazed how green the sand actually looked. Definately a memorable place I've visited in recent years

Where is it? The name sounds Kiwi to me.

It’s on the Big Island at Hawaii. They also have a black sand beach as well :)

Panoramic view of Mgarr, a picturesque fishing village found on the Maltese island of Gozo. Mgarr is also an important harbor as it provides the only ferry service to the smallest inhabited island of the Maltese archipelago, the beautiful island of Comino. Photo taken in May 2014.

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Tarifa is called the city of two seas, on one side there is Mediterranean sea and on the other Atlantic ocean. When there is wind from the west then the Mediterranean is calm and vice versa. So while it's still winter time in here, this guy is having a casual swim in the Mediterranean sea.
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This is a photo I took this last December while walking around Canon Beach off the Oregon Coast. The beach was freezing as it was raining most of the day and the water too cold to touch but got lucky enough to see a couple beautiful bald eagles flying around just off the coast.

On one side Atlantic Ocean and on another one Pacific Ocean. That is Panama Canal, 77 km waterway. This picture was taken onboard Carnival Freedom on a special journey cruise. It takes around 4 hours just to pass the locks. It was an amazing experience to watch, how they open the locks one by one.

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wow! extraordinary pictures. I appreciate your editorship in this regard. great choices and competitions

seriously amazing pic....

a very beautiful post and bermamfaat .... congratulations for you ....

Please help me upvote.

Hi! Just to let you know soliciting for upvotes will not get you very far, on the contrary, it will hurt you in the long run. Kindly avoid that kind of behavior. Tomas

the photos are amazing .. very inspiring to me.

This sunrise is unbelievably beautiful!

really beautiful

Magnificent click. Look how peaceful it is. Amazing calm and serene can be seen in the click also. Photographer has clicked the soul of nature

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Its a fantastic collections of memories, imaging that image of over six thousand yrs back, am honored to follow you here and must say, you did a good job

I really like the picture of the Euphrates Poplar. It reminds me of sci-fi scene.

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An awesome view if ur not beside the window. It's more fun in Philippines 🇵🇭

Some great images here. Keep up the good work. Looks fantastic.

amazing shots !!! :)
I've been busy last week :X gonna join this week again :)

good luck to the contributors !!

cheers
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Jurassic Coast

I was walking on top of a cliff, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. The views from up there are amazing and the colour of the water on a sunny day, has many different shades of blue. These kayakers looked like they were having a good time there, but the water was actually a bit rough as it was quite windy and they were getting very close to some rocks. Luckily they all got to the beach safely.

A shot of the Ligurian Sea taken near Porto Venere, Italy. Porto Venere is a town located on the Ligurian coast of Italy in the province of La Spezia. In 1997 Porto Venere and the villages of Cinque Terre were designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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