Hey there my Hive friends and followers!
Welcome to the 163rd 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. If you want to create a separate post as your entry, you can do that but please always remember to submit your entry in the form of a comment here in this post as well. I only check the entries submitted here as comments.
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. I also give some smaller upvotes on the other entries too so that all participants get rewarded for their engagement.
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:
No worries guys, it´s not blood or some radioactive sewage :D The weirdly pinky little river that you can see in the photo is actually an ordinary creek that just got covered with a layer of fallen pink blossoms from the nearby blooming cherry trees :) So it´s all perfectly natural and harmless but I must admit that it did take me a while to figure out what happened there when I spotted this unusual scenery :) I took the picture in the Stromovka Park that I wrote about here on my blog two days ago and you can actually see some of the trees that are responsible for the bizarre color of this creek in that post so feel free to check it out ;) The park is located here in Prague, Czech Republic and we visited it on a sunny (but chilly) afternoon two days ago.
In the last round, we had 6 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
@trangbaby with this entry from Australia:
The weather here in Melbourne this similar but no snow :) It's a pretty close-up pic of cherry blossom :) Here is my entry :) It was taken last weekend at Great Ocean, Melbourne, Australia when we drove back to city from our Grampians trip. It's beautiful coastal scenery and the 12 Apostles rock stacks have become a symbol of this region. We drove a long way to be here and it was totally worth it :)
@bossel with this entry from Albania:
Taken last Friday in the hills near the city centre of Durres, Albania. On the way to a viewing platform I came across some of the famous Albanian bunkers & the area between them was alive with spring activity. My scalp got sunburnt in the process. (Spring has gone again, btw, only cloudy 11°C today.)
@luchyl with this entry from Nigeria:
A mango tree with many fruits on it, captured on Wednesday when I visited my parents. This specie of mango is called German mango ("Ọpịorọ Mango in my dialect), and it's very sweet. When the fruit ripens, it's back still remains green. It's only when you cut it open that you will know it's ripe. I had the opportunity of enjoying the fruits also as mom had picked some ripe ones that fell. There's a myth behind this type of mango that "you don't take soda drinks / minerals immediately after taking it, if you do so, you may likely develop stomach upset which may lead to death". Well, I don't know if it's true or not. The photo was taken in the Abia State, Nigeria.
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!
I post this series in the Amazing Nature community, a great community for all nature lovers. Feel free to check it out ;)
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