Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 31

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Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

Welcome to the 31st 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.

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Panoramic view of some beautiful landscapes of the Beskid Mountains as seen and captured from a little lookout spot that we hiked to from the town of Kuncice pod Ondrejnikem here in the Moravian - Silesian Region of the Czech Republic last Sunday. A part of the Carpathians, the Beskids stretch from the Czech Republic along the Slovakian-Polish borders all the way up to Ukraine.




In the last round, we had 7 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:


@trangbaby with this entry:

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Countryside view on a river with rice paddies surround (taken on Sunday today). Simple but beautiful. It's not my best photo but it's meaningful and teaches me a lession. " Was born in a countryside, I always dreamed of living in a big and busy city when I was a litle girl. I liked skyscraper more than bamboo house, river, rice field,etc.. But when I'm getting older, more mature and I learn how to treasure everything of nature around me". Appreaciate Beautiful of Nature Wherever You Are.


@gingbabida with this entry:

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I´m back for an entry. Taken in my morning walk at Palo, Leyte, Philippines.


@pradeepdee6 with this entry:

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Awesome selections for the week. Congrats everyone 🙂 Here is my entry for the week, which was clicked few min ago. Location Harihar - India. I was up for the evening walk and the tracks of afternoon rain were still uncovered. The jasmine leaves were blessed with hanging pearls in a line. I clicked the photograph with a sunset background. Unfortunately it didnt have much of it. Lucky if you could see some through the hanging water droplets 🙂




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) that was created by @adalger.




This post was created by me for the Hive blockchain exclusively. All rights reserved.



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Thank you for visiting my blog. If you like posts about Nature, Animals, Ecology, Crypto, Traveling, Photography and discovering secrets and beauties of the World, feel free to follow me as these are the topics I mostly write about. Have a wonderful day and keep on hiving! :)



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All presented photos are of very high quality and reflect well the beauty of nature. Cognitive post. Thanks you.

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Thanks for your kind feedback man :) Have a great day.

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Another shot from French Beaujolaus, taken today. Two more days of picking grapes in this scenic surrounding.

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Summer still in full swing, right? :) Nice. So you work at that vineyard?

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Máš "těžké" rozhodování. Ještě že máš "oko" na perfektní snímky :-).
Abych jen tak nemlel na prázdno, zde je snímek z dnešního odpoledne (17.9.20). I když to tak nevypadá, podzim vypukl naplno. Václavky ukončují léto.
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Here is a picture from today's (17.9.20) afternoon walk. Although it may not look like it, autumn is here. "Václavky" ends the summer.

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Moc pěkné makro :) Ještě prosím doplň lokalitu ;)

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Jako skoro vždy :-). Východně od Českých Budějovic.

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Back to the contest, and with a fresh entry! Been exploring the Algarve region, and visited yesterday a natural reserve, filled with birdlife. The bird photos will come later, but for now this is what the landscape looks like, with the village of Castro Marim in the background!

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Nice one :) Good to see you here again :)

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A beautiful sunrise reflecting the waters of a lake is so beautiful, it looked unreal! 😍😍😍 It was such a breathtaking sight! ❤

Taken just this morning at Palo, Leyte, Philippines.

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Incredible colors, thanks for your entry :)

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This morning was the most brilliant morning in Bangkok city you couldn't have asked for a more peaceful sky with all them cotton clouds marching along all in a peaceful formation along the plans of the blue sky it just made me feel so good to be alive 😊

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Nice and simple :) Thank you.

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Thanks a lot for mentioning. Here my entry for this week Appreciate Beauty of Nature.

The Migrant Spider. A new addition in our garden, found this guy on the grocery bag. I carried him and left him on a flower plant where he can find his way of life. Before she leaves me, had some photo clicks. The long hairy legs are what I had not seen in our garden. Hope he meet me again.
Location Harihar India and the photo is not older than a week.

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Woow look at this little curious fella :) Very nice macro, thank you.

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My early morning jog this morning along the edge cliff of Cape Byron Bay the sun was just rising reflecting on the ocean and the crashing of the waves on the shoreline is all you could hear i love that sound of crashing waves just a peaceful feeling 🙂

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Fifthy shades of blue... Beautiful :)

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Lol,that's a nice way of describing it , thanks 🙂

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