Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 94
Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
Welcome to the 94th 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:
If we don´t manage to sneak out to some tropical or subtropical getaway soon, my contributions to this photography challenge will probably be a bit monotonous and dull in the upcoming weeks and months. All the vivid autumn colors are already gone but we don´t have snow here yet so if you go out to nature, you will mostly see a variety of shades of the gray. I took this picture of an interestingly shaped tree in the Jordan Park here in Krakow, Poland during a little walk yesterday. I wonder what made the tree grow like this...
In the last round, we had 7 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
@dodovietnam with this entry:
Hi @phortun. It's really nice to be back this wonderful challenge. The photo below was taken by me this morning. The electricity in my area went off this morning, then I brought my laptop to a coffee shop on Hai Van Pass, Danang, Vietnam to work. And this is the view from the cafe. The small guy on the rock is me.
@bucipuci with this entry:
Hello :-) Congratulations to the winners. You managed to get people out and they send you beautiful photos :-) I will also add one photo. On Tuesday morning (11/23/21) I managed to catch the sun still on the ground :-) My favorite location east of České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
@kimloan with this entry:
Hi @phortun. I took this picture at Vinh Dien Bridge in the Quang Nam Province, Vietnam last week. It was about to rain at that time, so there were a lot of clouds. Glad to be back with your challenges.
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 ;)
Hooorayyyyy! Thank you very much @phortun. You always do a great job!
With a pleasure mate ;) See you in the new round!
Beautiful submissions :)
Thanks for checking them out! :)
wow, Nice challenge. I hope I can participate. We are experiencing a storm today and maybe the next day too 🥺.
Alright :) Stay safe during the storm and I will be looking forward to your entry later ;)
Amazing huge beechtree I encountered few days ago while exploring forests in the southern Katowice.
Stunning shot, thanks. I love the mysterious / eerie feel about it :) Very cool.
Superb photo. Love it 😍
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Wow! those are wonderful content. They expressed the best nature scenario. Great job
Thanks for checking out the winning selection. Have a nice day :)
If you accept buildings, streets etc I can join. I don't have a sightseeing close to me 😁
Buildings and streets doesn´t sound like nature much :D Maybe in future you will make a trip to a place where you will be able to take some nice shots for this challenge :)
That last one taken in Vietnam I really like. Reminds me of where I am now...haha
Awesome :) Btw you are welcome in this challenge anytime of course ;)
Right. I've got to branch out.
A moment caught while cycling up Son Tra peninsula - Da Nang. Well say what? Well, I can't express my feelings in words
Wow. I would be speechless as well. Incredible scene. Can you just add when you took this picture please? :)
Son Tra Peninsula faces east when we ride up in the morning from the city. It is currently the rainy season with a lot of clouds. The sun had just glimmered a little since yesterday, and when we crossed the first hill, we found it in the sea. The position of the view here
Awesome, thanks for all the info :)
Chup được đám mây kia đẹp ghê :)
Mùa mưa mới có kiểu mây đấy
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Congratulations @dodovietnam and @kimloan for great pictures :-)
Díky za ocenění. Doufám, že se mi zase někdy povede vyfotit něco pro tvou soutěž :-).
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Já díky za účast a budu se těšit zase příště ;)
:-)
Haha! Welcome to my life right now!
We all need to do a meetup in Thailand! I'll be back with a picture! Hi @phortun
Right! :) In fact, any warm place with a sea would be just fine for me :D
Looking forward to your entry :) Have a nice weekend.
Ditto! In fact, I am going to the shore maybe this weekend, just for the day, and I don't even mind that it is too cold to swim. I am desperate enough to invite the wind to run through my hair and the salt to be inhaled.
Aww. Jelly. Enjoy! :)
:)) Wait! I am going to paint too!!! Not so jelly!
Hi, @phortun good to know about your challenge and thankfully I was able to capture this even though we're about to experience a storm this day. I have here my entry. The paddy field which I took this afternoon when I was about to bring some items to my customers. This was only a walking distance from my house and we used to have this view in front of our house not until we had problems with the water supply. This was a wide area of rice field but today some were harvested already and a few weeks from now they are all ready to harvest too. It made me sad and missed about how we used to harvest our rice and also to have this view that I don't have to walk here just to see this kind of amazing nature.
Hey Laica, thank you very much for joining the challenge :) Very nice photo and interesting write up. Can you just add the location please? At least the country... Thanks.
Ohh sorry about that this is from Cebu, the Philippines in the province of Moalboal.
Awesome, thanks :)
Lovely. You remind me of the rice fields in Viet Nam 😍
Thank you 🙂.
Earlier in the week, I went hiking. The crunching of leaves is a most autumnal sound, making it hard to sneak up on wildlife. :) This shot is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the closest non-urban national park to Washington, DC
Very nice and creative shot, thank you! :) I can literally hear the sound of the leaves crunching, very autumnal indeed :)
Thank you for the upvote!
Love those autumnal leaves on the ground. Lovely and beautiful shot as always, Sweetie 😍
Thank you so much. It was as I was walking through the forest. Leaves everywhere.
oh Finally I'm in the top 3,😅 thank you @phortun very much. have a nice weekend
Well deserved spot :) Have a nice weekend too!
Congrats for the winners already now.
My entry for this round. The picture was just taken yesterday at the Stone coffee shop here in Da Nang. The Cafe has a cozy atmosphere and refreshing greenery where I can sit and sip coffee while taking in the surrounding trees without leaving the city.
Wow what a place for a cup of coffee :) Beautiful, thank you.
Catching the sunrise and the lonely surfer at Lennox Head Beach this morning before starting my days work just seeing a beautiful morning like this boosters my energy levels up for the day.
Awesome shot. Simle yet stunning :) Thank man!
Thanks man 👍