Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
Welcome to the 97th 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:
The past few days have been very cold here in Krakow, Poland with the temperatures dropping as low as to some -10 C (14 F) at night but it was sunny during the day yesterday so I went for a little walk around the Krakowski Park where I also clicked this random shot of the trees. Hopefully, I will be able to go for some bigger hikes during the upcoming holidays. I like the combination of snow and blue sky but it´s quite rare here in Central Europe, winter days are mostly cloudy.
I don´t know why but we had only 3 participants in the last round so picking the 3 winners was easy:
@dodovietnam with this entry:
Hi @phortun, I'm back with your Appreciate Beauty of Nature challenge. This is the photo I took in my trip to Ha Giang, the northest province of Vietnam, last week. This is the river named Nho Que.
@kohsamui99 with this entry:
This was on my jog this morning, I love my early morning jogs along the NSW coastline of Byron Bay, Australia there is nothing more peaceful and refreshing to start of your day by clearing them lungs out and it's the way I love to start my every morning.
@onlavu with this entry:
A short walk with my dog last week. Photo taken from the tree stand in the Moravian - Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
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 ;)
This post was created by me for the Hive blockchain exclusively. All rights reserved.
Hi, I have just taken this nice photo when crosscountry skiing in Jeseníky mountains. It was taken about 4 km from Paprsek cottage where you can taste the best blueberry dumplings in the world :-) When I was looking at the scenery, I wished I had been just 5 cm short to climb the frozen "waterfall"😃
Tato odpověď ve vítězné kolekci nebude, takže můžu česky: Díky za parádní fotku! Doufám, že sis běžky užila :)
Hi @phortun, here is my entry.
I just had a beautiful walk around Lake Xuan Huong in Da Lat today with my friend. It was wonderful to walk around enjoying the scenery and breath the cold weather of this great place in the highland of Viet Nam.
Hope you're having a great holiday and wish you a Happy New Year :)
Hey there Trang! Good to see you here again after a while :) Thank you for your beautiful entry. Happy New Year to you too!
Here is my entry for the challenge (really great to motivate people to go out in nature more, so well done on doing this!).
Nature is always my safe spot and a week ago I had someone who kindly fixed my Nikon camera, I though was gone and done its job. But now that its fully operating again, I love to take it with me wherever I go and make some amazing pictures of nature.
This beautiful sunset was seen last night as I went walking with a friend and his dog. The colours were just so beautiful and it was really breathtaking. Love to share this with you all, hope you enjoy it :)
Hey Kat, what a pleasure to have you in my challenge, welcome! :) Your first entry is amazing, thank you for that. Can you just add the location please?
Thanks for the welcome!
Ohh yes of course, sorry haha :) It is beautiful Grange beach, Adelaide South Australia :D
Ona: Hi @phortun, here is our entry for your contest. We made this photo during our Christmas walk on Tuesday, near Trojanovice in Beskydy, Czech Republic.
Ahojte, rád vás vidím v mé soutěži :) Škoda, že jste se nestavili o něco dřív, tohle kolo skončilo včera večer... Fotku vám ale samozřejmě i tak upvotnu a budu se na vás těšit v novém kole. Díky za účast.
This was Christmas day in the evening after a full on Christmas lunch turkey and all, I needed a walk on Byron Bay beach to burn off a few of the calories that I had consumed and what better way to walk with a glorious colorful vibrant sunset to end Christmas day 🎅
Awesome shot, love the framing. Thanks man :) Hope you had an amazing Christmas.
Thanks man was a great Christmas and looking forward to the New Year you have a great one buddy 👍
Congrats for the winners from now on.
Thanks for checking out the winning collection. Not many entries in this round but still beautiful shots ;)
You should accept the photos that were taken more older then 🙄
But the challenge would lose its main point then - make people go out and spend some time in nature regularly, at least once a week ;) I think the participation was lower in this round because of the upcoming holidays, people have been busy...
Perhaps, they will come up with new photos :)
@tipu curate
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 8/88) Liquid rewards.
😲 thanks & congrats!
Thanks man I love you photo clod but a nice combination with the blue sky. See you in the next round 👍
The photo by @dodovietnam is amazing!!!
It is indeed :) Thanks for checking out the winning collection, I will be looking forward to your own entry in this round :)
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much @phortun. I was lucky to join the challenge with only 3 participants.