Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 137

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

Welcome to the 137th 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.

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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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We had some beautiful sunny weather here in Prague, Czech Republic last weekend so I took advantage of that and went for a little hike around the forests in the Motol neighborhood. I actually took several very different shots during the hike and it was quite difficult for me to pick the one for the new round of this challenge but eventually, I decided to use this picture that I titled kind of poetically "the moss still life" :) I could have used some other photos from that day as moss is one of just very few plants that will be green even in winter here in Central Europe so I will probably have to use some more mossy shots in the future rounds but I like the colors and atmosphere of the picture so there we go :) Photo taken by me last Sunday.

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In the last round, we had 6 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:

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@tommyl33 with this entry from Malaysia:

This is my entry from Sabah, Malaysia. Today I was climbing the hill behind our paddy field to look place for growing durian. The view from up there showing a part of our paddy field is so beautiful.

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@karizma with this entry from Germany:

Thank you for choosing my photo as well :) This is my contribution for the new round. Although it has slowly become quite cool and autumnal with us, we had last Thursday again a nice warm weather. This we have used and made a nice walk to the river "Weser" in Germany. I just love to be at the water, because it decelerates me and relaxes. Our son was busy for quite a while collecting tree bark and making little boats out of it. Such moments are simply wonderful :)

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@kellyane with this entry from the Philippines:

Congratulations to the winners. This is my entry for this week. This was taken last Sunday when my friend brought me to Tawhay Mountain Resort located in Valencia, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Actually we planned to visit here few months back but we ended up visiting different places. I actually didn't expect to visit here last Sunday since the weather in the Philippines was not really nice few days ago due to super typhoon hit in the Luzon part. Although we are too far but the weather in my place was still affected. It was raining that time. Some parts of the road was muddy but it was not really difficult to cross. Never did I regret when I said yes to her suggestion because the scenery is truly beautiful, perfect for someone who loves tranquility.

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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!

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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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