Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 193

Hey there my Hive friends and followers!

Welcome to the 193rd 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. If you want to create a separate post as your entry, you can do that but please always remember to submit your entry in the form of a comment here in this post as well. I only check the entries submitted here as comments.

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. I also give some smaller upvotes on the other entries too so that all participants get rewarded for their engagement.

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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Since my wife can go into labor literally any day and any hour now, I have been trying to stay home with her as much as I can but a couple of days ago, on a beautiful sunny afternoon, we actually went for a little walk together. It was a very short walk of course as she gets tired easily but we still made it to the Asuan Water Reservoir, a picturesque little dam located in the Prague neighborhood of Jinonice. It was really warm and sunny with no winds that day so I expected the water to be still with some beautiful autumnal reflections on it and I was right ;) I quickly clicked a picture for this challenge and we left for home. It´s quite probable that our daughter will already be here with us when I will be preparing my contribution for the next round.

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In the last round, we had 9 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:

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@incublus with this entry from Turkey:

I took this photo last week in my village, Karaman, Turkey. I was walking from my house to my grandparents' house, I was quite tired but the view was inviting me to keep walking.

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@nenio with this entry from Chile:

I share this photo of the (almost) full moon. It was taken on October 27, and the full moon happened the following day. To the readers in the northern hemisphere will notice something strange on the lunar surface, it is “upside down”. The reason is that it was taken at the southern hemisphere, more specifically in Antofagasta, Chile located at the Tropic of Capricorn. In the photos we can see clearly the main craters: as the Tycho crater (at the right) and the Copernicus crater and the main maria.

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@blind-spot with this entry from Luxembourg:

This picture is from my visit to Schiessentümpel waterfall a few days ago. It is an incredible place. Rocky mountains, thick forest, Black Ernz river, hiking trail, and a waterfall all in the same place. It was even raining to make nature feel more "naturey". There's a road right next to this place, but walking here and drowning in the sounds of the water, suffocating in the fresh air from the trees, the beautiful chaos of the giant rocks, and the glistening moss simply had me in trance. I got lost from the world in some sense. It is so beautiful!

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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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