Week 7 was an amazing week and I'm stoked for week 8!
You know that @papa-pepper really enjoys plants and animals, so what better photography contest could I run than one where others get to photograph plants and animals together, in some combination photography?
EXAMPLES
Before I get into who won the contest last week, I’ll quickly review what I am looking for by featuring some new photos of mine. As you can see in the cover photo, I combined field grass (plant) with a ram (animal) while I was over at @mericanhomestead.
First off, by combination photography I mean that you should combine two elements; plants and animals. At least one plant and at least one animal should be featured in your photo. Here are two examples.
Besides simply providing the images, I also require that those entering this contest provide a proof photo as well. Two main versions of proof photos exist. One kind features the same combination of plants & animals with a written paper in the photo with your username, the date, contest name, etc. to prove that you took the photo for the contest.
The other type of proof is just a selfie with the animal and plant. Here are my examples for the photos featured above.
Once you see the proof photos there should not be any doubt in your mind that I actually took the photos I shared above.
THE WINNERS!
I love running contests but I hate picking winners. As always, this was tough for me, but I have finally made my decisions. The Winner gets 50% of the liquid post payout from the Week Seven Post and the two runner ups each get 12.5% of the same.
THE WINNER
@ellicia
14.50 SBD
FIRST RUNNER UP
@iamhaque
7.25 SBD
SECOND RUNNER UP
@clove71
7.25 SBD
This has been so much fun for me to run. I absolutely love seeing all of your interesting entries from all around the world. Also, though the official way to enter this contest is by including your entry photo and the proof photo in a reply to my post, I strongly encourage others to make an actual post featuring their entry as well.
Even if you do not win the contest, you could still get something for your effort if you turn it into a post as well. @Matthewtiii once hit the jackpot on a post about his contest entry. His post paid out at over $200 total while he has trying to win 5 STEEM, LOL! Link here.
ON TO WEEK 8!
By now you should have a clue about what this contest is and how to enter, but here are the official rules just to make sure. Enjoy, and I am looking forward to seeing what you can come up with.
HERE ARE THE OFFICIAL RULES:
- Photo entries must be placed in the reply/comment section of this post.
- Submissions may also be made into posts, but it is not necessary.
- A proof photo will also be required. This can be in the form of a selfie with the subjects from the photos or in the form of your username written on a piece of paper in a photo, etc. Basically, you must prove the originality of your work. Therefore, your entry comment should include two photos.
- Users have between now and the time of the post payout to enter this contest.
- I will personally select one winner to award half of the liquid SBD payout from this post to and two runner ups who will each get 25% of the same.
- Enter as many times as you like!
- Depending on the interest in this contest, I may have it be ongoing.
IMPORTANT: Please make sure to include both your entry photo and proof photo in your reply.
TL;DR
If you reply to this post with a photo of a plant and animal together and include a proof photo before the post payout from this post, you may win a portion of the post payout.
LET THE 8TH WEEK OF THE CONTEST BEGIN!!!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-ram-in-field-from-cover-photo
Until next time…
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looks like yet another successful contest from @papa-pepper . Keep it up man!
Thank you! I will.
Thank you so much for having this contest! You totally encouraged me so now take my family out today to find some goats at the river, they are there eating a vine plant that is taken over and killing trees, bushes, etc. Thank you so much for getting me excited about Steemit again! I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Our Entry
We had a great time doing this! Photos by @clove71
Here is Bijou in his favorite hiding place under a bush in the front yard.
Here's my first entry for this week, with my post: https://steemit.com/tortoise/@whistlejacket/angulate-tortoise-and-arum-lily
Very Nice Post. Follow Me :)
Each competition will give birth to many surprises, as well as this contest, many participate but few who can enter the nomination, quality and level of popularity that will determine exactly.
On this occasion just just want to wish the Winner and thanks to all the contestants, I also hope, one day can participate in the contest and win it.
Thank you for the Contest @papa-pepper
This is my first time to participate in your competition.
Thank for organised this.
Here my submit for your combination photography competition and a link to a post I make just now.
https://steemit.com/combinationphotography/@davidad/fly-on-yellow-flower-papa-pepper-week-8-combination-photography-contest
@davidad
Great pics :)
Thank u for sharing...
Great post,
Succes and health always @papa-pepper
Greeting from me
Congratulations to the winners.
Spiders are so freaking FREAKY!!
Ughhhhhh!!!!
>^<@shayne
Nice to see you around again!
Thanks Papa. It's good to be back.
Great photos. I'll see if this week I'm lucky to find my model animal that pose for the camera.
Here's my entry!
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I was thinking the new contest was starting yesterday!
No problem, I don't always start them right away.
Nice one!
Here's a natural critter + plant combination, Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars on their host plant, a pipevine leaf.
The pipevine swallowtail larvae host exclusively on their namesake pipevine plants. The adults seek out the plant and lay their eggs on new growth leaves. While these butterflies pair exclusively with pipevine plants as the larval host, other butterflies and moths have multiple host plant species.
A few years ago I planted pipevine plants (aristolochia macrophylla) in my garden, the swallowtails now have a place to lay eggs on my vines and are becoming common around my neighborhood. They are native here in the Western NC area, but are unusual in residential areas, they are usually found in the mountains where wild pipevine plants are abundant.
The adult butterflies make great photo subjects as well, I'm sure I will show them off in a future post, --
perhaps in another combination contest.
Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar on Pipevine Leaf
My pipevine garden is behind me
I cant even believe how many contests you are running friend! Its an exciting adventure following you c:
I try to encourage, inspire, and share, so contests are one way that I do that.
It's working!
Congrats to all week seven winner
Wow!! Great post!! Keep posting such posts good luck!
Love the creativity! best wishes.
ants in leaves
My entry
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i like your posts. interesting things become my choice for comment .. good job.
That's probably the strangest snake I've ever seen. The selfie winner took a great pic.
Good photos
Im definitely gonna get on this last time i was a bit late i posted on the 6th day
Congrats to all the winners! What are those little red bugs @iamhaque?! Some great entries for this week already!
This is a photo of the cat sitting near us so i took a photo of her. I hope you'll like her. (meow)
Sorry my proof photo is a bit noisy. Its a bit hard to picture because it was already evening when I took this photo.
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my entry
Here's my entry! Booster the ram with his hay (which is dead plants) and some trees (which are dormant but still alive!) in the background! Hawkeye the one-eyed ewe is behind him.
Today I was having lunch at an outdoor cafe when a monarch butterfly whizzed by me. I got right up and started following it down the street. It landed on this enormous planter of flowers and I started snapping away as it sampled all the sweet nectars from the beautiful flowers. It was literally a color explosion on this 13th of October with unseasonably sunny and warm weather.
My post:
https://steemit.com/photography/@otage/monarch-butterfly-chase-20171014t3193889z
hi @papa-pepper, i present this worm.
https://steemit.com/spanish/@samic/combination-photography-contest-from-papa-pepper
here is the proof photo
This guy was too fast for me to get a good shot with my name, but I finally managed to capture him at the lower right hand corner of the paper. I discovered something very unusual while photographing this bee and have written a post about it here. If anyone has any answers for me, I would be really grateful.
My 2nd entry: flower crab spider on lavender.
Fab fab fab spider. Looks so great on the lavendar too :)
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests.
All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Love and Light!
Poisonous Caterpillar resting on Castor tree trunk.
Wow! So many awesome entries this week! @pappa-pepper, I think this may be the toughest decision you've had, yet! I don't have anything that will compete, but I'll submit this cocoon, just to say I made my weekly entry.
Sick-Covered Cocoon On A Sycamore
And The Proof (along with this GIANT leaf that I found)
I snapped another butterfly today at Maymont park in RVA! (Richmond, VA) using my Canon Rebel 7 the selfie my iphone 7.