Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 72

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

Welcome to the 72nd 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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I am currently back to my Czech hometown of Opava and I went for a little bike ride yesterday. I followed the bike path along the Moravice River that is surrounded by many picturesque fields and meadows. I really like to hang around places like this but in summer, it´s actually very challenging for me as I have a very strong pollen allergy (various types of pollen) so spending some time among all those blooming plants and trees comes at a price. Still worth it in my book though :)

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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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@ladybug146 with this entry:

We finished the day off at Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada after a day of 17km of total hiking on the day a couple of days ago. With the long summer days, there has been plenty of daylight to enjoy jam packed days outdoors in the rockies. We just came back now is time to rest up our muscles.

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@jacuzzi with this entry:

I went out the other day as my friend and we drove around. This was one solo tree on top of a little bit of land. I wonder what animals might call this Tree Top Island home, I wonder what sort of mountain needs to be around it before it went away. But still nature finds a way oh, it lives it breathes. Photo taken in Vietnam, like 40 min outside of Danang, I am not sure of the GPS location, hmm... but the date it was taken was on June 27th.

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@trangbaby with this entry:

Thank you, @phortun, for the feature, always a pleasure to be mentioned. My entry this round is about the fantastic beach Tien Sa in Da Nang, Vietnam which I called the little tropical paradise (it was taken on Monday). Locating behind the mountain, the beach here is very calm and great to swim in. The water is crystal clear, and the surrounding sceneries are stunning. What a mistake that I did not visit here often before !! But it's ok now I know it and will definitely come back once the restriction is eased.

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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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