Amazing Nature Contest - June 2020 - #05 - CLOSED

in Amazing Nature4 years ago (edited)

Hello Nature Lovers !

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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 Hive 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 🦢 and the @fungilovers hosted by @qwerrie 🍄.



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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 ^^



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Prizes to Win :

  • 1st : 3 HIVE
  • 2st : 2 HIVE
  • 3st : 1 HIVE

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 @kohsanui99.

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 ^^



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THIS WEEKS WINNERS


The winner of this weeks round is @kohsamui99 with its entry about trees. He captures these with bare nakeded branches and even without their leaves they are so beautiful and majestic. Their skeltons and silhuettles, winding in all direction create an atmosphere of calm and peace and reveal the individual charackter of every single tree. Thank you for this great monochrome entry ^^


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@kohsamui99


I am very glad for being able to present another outstanding entry to you by @dannewton, an photographer with an huge interest in insects. Fortunately, for all of us, his passion is not only limited to taking amazing photographs of our little fellows, but also includes the will to learn something about every single one that he encounters in every aspect up to a deep understanding of their life-cycles, their behavior, and their specialties and similarities to all their little neighbors ^^ .. Thank you very much for being in this community and for entering the contest for the second time already, your entries are really awesome and not only Amazing Nature, but also DNA is so grateful to your nature spirit !! This time we get some nice pictures and information about the Mayfly, Keeled Skimmer Dragonfly, Hoverfly, Golden Horsefly, Pine Weevil and the Gall Wasp ;)


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@dannewton


Here we have a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth that was submitted for us by @redheadpei. This amazing little creature caught her attentions, as it is moving his wings as rapidly like a hummingbird but the tiny clear wings made no noise like a bumblebee ^^ I am glad that you were following your curiosity that day and found this great magnificent Canadian mixture of a bumblebee and a hummingbird that can be easily mistaken for anything, but a moth, hehe ;) .. Hummingbird Clearwing Moths are normally covered in olive or tan hairs and whose lower back is decorated with reddish-brown bands. Their 4-6 cm long wings are clear, except for the veins and borders), and manage to hold up that rather plump little bodies floating gracefully for so long. They tend to live in open woodlands, gardens and meadows, and act as pollinators in their ecosystems .. Thank you very much for presenting us this amazing little moth from beautiful Canada ^^


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HONORABLE MENTIONS



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FEATURING


This week I am not going to feature a Hivean, but a proposal for science ^^ It was submitted by @juanbg, a marine biologist from Mexico. I hope that with this feature I can raise the awareness for his proposal. It is such a pity that scientist all over the world loose their funding and support, also their research is so valuable for all of us living on this beautiful planet, no matter if humans or animals. Here is a link to his proposal and a few words from him about it ^^


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https://peakd.com/me/proposals/120


"A proposal for science: our ocean needs us"

Hive people can support science. Science can do publicity to @Hive
Hive people can support science in a country where education is not primordial.

Hello everyone, I'm a marine biologist from Mexico🐬, Master in science student.
The research I have done during the master is entitled "Age and growth of the bottlenose common dolphin(Tursiops truncatus) and the Bottlenose dolphin of the Indo-Pacific (Tursiops aduncus)", the latter species is known very little. It means that this work represents new information at the INTERNATIONAL LEVEL, making this type of project known should be a priority for our country, but this does not happen in this way.



Trouble:

In the last six-year term of the current president in Mexico, we have had a significant reduction in the budget and support for science and the conservation of our natural resources. Many people who dedicated their lives to science and conservation have lost their jobs.

I received a notice in my email that would undoubtedly be a great step and the opportunity to publicize my study at other levels: my work had been accepted for presentation at the meeting of the Mexican Society of Marine Mastozoology (SOMEMMA, for its acronym in Spanish), but in my country they have denied me the support to spread this work



Hive proposal:

My proposal is this: collect 25 HBD per day, until 19 of August of 2021 (60 days) and would have enough time to rigorously prepare the exhibition of the study and make the appropriate arrangements to SOMEMMA meeting.
the presentation of the work at the SOMEMMA meeting would present the @Hive community (the logo would be projected) as a fundamental part to publicize the research. The possible benefits of this: THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY COULD KNOW AND IN CASE JOIN HIVE TO SHARE SCIENTIFIC AND QUALITY CONTENT, and other publicity benefits. You can read the complete proposal in the next links:



You can vote for my proposal here:
https://hivedao.com/proposals(#120)
https://peakd.com/me/proposals/120

Contact
Facebook: Juan B'g
E-mail: [email protected]
Telegram : Juan B. García



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Amazing Nature Community :



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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:

AMAZING NATURE COMMUNITY

This community is there FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT THE AMAZING NATURE AROUND YOU. Currently I have 39 Nature Lovers on the autovote, which is set to 20% for 2 daily upvotes 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 @alicargofer @alinix @annamarina @annephilbrick @apnigrich @artofwisdom @angelro @antoniarhuiz @atomcollector @bahttg @bambuka @belkisa758 @bigsambucca @borjan @brittandjosie @bucipuci @careassaktart @carolinacardoza @chetanpadliya @cocolefleur @crazyandy @dannewton @davidesimoncini @derekrichardson @dkkarolien @dzoji @elitogold @elkezaksek @ellenripley @engrsayful @fanyokami @farm-mom @fmbs25 @futven12 @godlovermel25 @haastrecht @gingbabida @gohenry @hangin @iamraincrystal @insense @ireenchew @irionet @irvet @isabelpena @jesuslnrs @joanstewart @joebtc @johannpiber @julianhorack @justicexxx @justclickindiva @kalemandra @kamrunnahar @karbon @kheys @kohsamui99 @letalis-laetitia @lighteye @leslierevales @librepensadora @lisfabian @lorennys @maloustau @manojbhatt @manorvillemike @manuelramos @mariacaffrey @melinda010100 @mers @mintymile @misschance @mllg @molometer @mondoshawan @monowar @myjob @mysteriousroad @naide71 @naty16 @nelinoeva @nilom @ninahaskin @oizaguirres @offgridlife @olivia08 @oredebby @paradigm42 @pavelsku @phortun @porters @pradeepdee6 @qwerrie @racarjoal @razeiv @redheadpei @rosanita @sarimanok @sayee @sallybeth23 @seadbeady @sreypov @starjewel @sunscape @s3rg3 @thebigsweed @theoctoberwind @thesobuz @travelsbyblue @trincowski @trudeehunter @truelovemom @viking-ventures @vincent21 @whatisnew @wongbraling @yessgutierrez @yskar @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 ^^



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DNA - Densifying Nature-Appreciation :



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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 Hiveans 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.org 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 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 and the #fungifriday hosted by the amazing @qwerrie 🍄 for all your posts about fungi and mushrooms ^^ But we hope that more nature related communities will join, or maybe some Hiveans start their own little project there ;) .. Maybe even you?


FEATHERED FRIENDS COMMUNITY

FUNGI LOVERS COMMUNITY

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"



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The Terminal & Discord :







There is another initiative here on Hive that I would like to bring close to you as I absolutely love them, The Terminal:

THE TERMINAL DISCORD

It is a great location for LEARNING ABOUT HIVE, Discord, and Hive-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 Hiveans.

It host the REDFISH RALLY, a funny challenge for all those that are new here to the world of Hive. The Terminal also hosts the HEYHAVEYAMET project by @heyhaveyamet, which introduces all new Hiveans on a daily basis, so that you don't have to search for them ^^


THE TERMINAL COMMUNITY

So why not joining us in the THE TERMINAL DISCORD? You will not regret it ^^


"Your one-stop location for learning about destinations in the Hive blockchain and Discord"



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Best wishes,
Adalger


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Congrats to the winners - there were so many great entries again it was hard to choose a winner :)

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I am always happy that there are people who participate in the voting process. Alone, with so many great entries, it would be painful to decide a winner, hehe ^^

 4 years ago  

Thank you for this dutch entry ^^

Thank you for including my blog for the honorable mention list! It’s really awesome! This is my 2nd entry to the contest Amazing Nature #5
Good luck to all the participants and congratulations to the winners of Amazing Nature #4!
https://esteem.app/amazingnature/@elitogold/amazing-nature

 4 years ago  

Thank you for another entry @elitogold of these great Ikebana ^^ .. But please remember to post you entry to the community too next time .. As there are already so many amazing entries every week I have to be strict on the rues ;)

 4 years ago  

Thank you for your entry to the contest and your very first entry to Hive !! ^^

Hi @adalger hope all is good with you here is my entry for week #5 . Thank you.

Touring Binh Dinh Province and Marble Mountain in Vietnam.

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Thank you very much for another entry from you ^^

My pleasure @adalger i am a lover of nature and love to explore all types of nature 😊

yay!! thanks for the mention!! it was a pleasure to participate, i'll keep an eye on the following contests!!

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Thanks for having joined ^^ .. If you ever want to enter again you are highly welcome to do so ;)

Thank you so much @adalger it is a honor to be the winner amongst so many amazing entries , i like to thank everyone that voted for me and congratulation to the other winners and all the honorable mentions nature really is beautiful and we must care for it all the time 😊

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Hehe, you are welcome @kohsamui99 ^^ .. Thanks for entering with this great monochrome tree pictures ;)

My pleasure thank you @adalger 👍

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Thank you for the entry ^^

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Thank you very much for the entry @gorangoran ^^ .. Just please remember to keep the rules stated above. I am missing rule 1, 2 and 4 in your entry ;) .. I don't want to mock anyone, but to stay fair to all the others, I have to be quite strict on them

@adalger I thank you infinitely for having made known my project in favor of science. I will support what I can. Thank you very much and greetings!

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You are very welcome ^^ .. I wish you the very best luck with the project and hope that you can achieve your goal ;)

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Thank you very much for your entry @justicexxx ^^ I am so glad to see that you are keeping entering every week ;)

I thank the mention and congratulate the winners of this fabulous contest, it is a pleasure to participate.

 4 years ago  

I am glad to hear this ^^ .. You are always welcome to participate as often as you want, hehe

Such wonderful nature photography - congratulations to the winners and thank-you for the honorable mention!

I have an entry for this weeks #AmazingNature contest at:
https://peakd.com/hive-127788/@porters/sublime-sunday-with-successions-of-growth-in-the-forest-winged-friends-and-the-macro-world-of-insects

I was really taken by the abundance of horsetails growing on the forest floor with their soft fronds!
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And numerous insects caught my eye too with dragonflies, butterflies, bumblebees and spiders!

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Thank you very much for the entry @porters ^^

 4 years ago  

Congratulations to the winners and everyone else. It's getting harder to give a "vote" to just someone :-)

 4 years ago  

You are so right. The quality of the entries increases every week and the post get longer, more informative and creative .. ahh .. thanks for helping in voting, hehe !

 4 years ago  

I was happy to help :-)

 4 years ago  

Thank you for your entry ^^

Here is my entry for this week, I look forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with 😀

https://peakd.com/hive-127788/@dannewton/a-garden-of-secrets-recording-wildlife-at-home

 4 years ago  

Thanks again for this super amazing entry @dannewton ^^

Another great series of images... great variety here 😀

And thanks for my second '2nd place' in two weeks, I will try really hard to aim for 1st place next time 😉

 4 years ago  

Haha, you are already doing such an amazing job with you entries ^^ .. It would be really hard to improve them even further! ..But I have the feeling that you will be placed in the winning rows, not matter witch place, quite often from now on ;)

Thank you, I'm pleased to see that people find the posts interesting, and the potential reward of 1st prize is enough to motivate me to try and write better entries 😉

 4 years ago  

Thank you for this beautiful branches @naide71 ^^

Getting more and more interesting. Lots of high quality works.

Cheers.

Thank you very much @adalger for the mention. Congratulations to the winners and Have a great day to everyone.

 4 years ago  

YOu are welcome ^^ Thank you very much for finding and participating in this contest ;)

@tipu curate :)

Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 16/32)

 4 years ago  

Aother great tip ^^ Thank you very very much again ;)

 4 years ago  

Thank you for your duck @rosanita ^^

Congratulations to the three selected entries this week, wonderful support by everyone enjoying nature.

Life is good when we look at it closely, wishing everyone a wonderful new week.

 4 years ago  

Hi there @joanstewart ^^ .. I wish you a wonderful week ahead too !

Thanks @adalger for the mention.. God Bless

 4 years ago  

You are very welcome ! .. Thank you for entering the contest .. and entering it again with your personal amazing view on nature ^^

Thanks for the mention, @adalger, and congratulations to the winners.

 4 years ago  

You are welcome ^^ Great to see you have joined us again with an entry ;)

Hello very grateful for the mention I love nature

 4 years ago  

Hehe ^^ If you love nature you are just at the right place. God that you joined the community back in the days ;)

Another truly amazing miracle from the Nature that many people miss:

https://hive.blog/hive-127788/@lighteye/amazing-nature-contest-june-2020-05-cherry-money

 4 years ago  

Thanks for entering again with your sweet and delicious entry ^^

I am happy to participate in this great contest.
Below is my hive link👇👇👇👇👇

https://peakd.com/hive-127788/@glotokens/amazing-nature-contest-05-glowing-flowers

Happy new month all
Much love💟💟💓

 4 years ago  

Thank you for the entry @glotokens ^^ .. Have an happy and amazing month ahead too ! .. I have the feeling that it will be a great one, hehe

Yes definitely it will be a great one.
Thanks for stopping by. I am grateful

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Thank you very much for part of of the rose paradise @nelinoeva ^^

 4 years ago  

Thank you for these spiders you submitted ^^

 4 years ago  

Thank you for this amazing macro of a really relaxed looking snail ^^

 4 years ago  

Thank you @manovillemike for this unexpected visitor of yours ^^

Thought I'd throw it in... my photos don't compare to most though...:-)

 4 years ago  

Thank you for this entry @godlovermel25 ^^ Thats a great view ;)

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 4 years ago  

Hi there everyone !!

First of all, thank you very much for this overwhelming number of entries for this round !! We never ever had so many before ^^ And also thanks for this amazing support for the last contest post, I really appreciate it, you are the best ;)

Today we have a kind of special feature, as it is not about a Hivean, but about a Proposal for Science ^^ It was submitted by @juanbg, a marine biologist from Mexico, and if you have some minutes to over it, it would be great.

Also, I would like to remind you once again, that there is the DNA organization, to foster and DENSIFY NATURE-APPRECIATION which aims to establish REPORTS OF BIODIVERSITY DATA that is contributed by all of us Hiveans and subsequently cataloged. It also hosts the the #amazingnature, #featheredfriends and #fungilovers community and is a great place for anyone of you that loves nature in its whole ^^ the @dna.org account is also a VOTING TRAIL and we would be super mega happy about anyone who considers to follow it, even with a very low voting amount. Every little thing help to get the right appreciation to those nature lovers out there that deserve it for their great posts !

Best wishes,
Adalger ^^

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