Greetings!
This is the first entry I am submitting for this weeks photo challenge "The Human Body"!
Below is my thumbnail promotions photo and after that is the actual photo.
I love photography because it is a way to really excentuate the beauty all around and more importantly to share it. I am grateful to be able to share with all you cutting edge Steemians here on this revolutionary platform!
I really like to enter the contests because it helps interact the community and also helps promote Steemit. The Steemit Photo Challenge is a good one and even has its own web site! WEBSITE see hehe
This weeks challenge is "The Human Body" of which we all have yet are so inhibited. It is rare that we see naked bodies in any kind of public place. Even within households nudity is very uncommon even amongst children. To top it off most bodies even children these days are resembling less and less a "healthy natural body".
I have embraced the human body and the uninhabited expression of it and my children prove every day that this is actually quite natural. They have no inhibition, shame, guilt or ideas about it. For them it is totally natural and also preferred to be naked as often as possible.
I share this photo in hopes today not of winning the contest but of sharing healthy natural beauty~*~
The raw natural beauty of this photo is excentuated by such a colorful face painting surrounded by a body of water. I am quite pleased with it.
You can read about this amazing girl QiQi in my introduction post about her if you wish.

You can read about my family and my parenting philosophies and practices here if you wish.

I have taken hundreds of thousands of photos if not more and I am just getting started!
If you are interested I have posted a lot of it here on Steemit over the year and hope to share a lot more!
I mostly take pictures of my family and nature but love to get out on the streets from time to time, especially in new places. I am super stoked to get some epic Street Photography at SteemFest this year!

Here is a post from last weeks Photo Challenge if you would like to check it out!
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Steemit Photo Challenge Week 52 Street Photography: 🐈 BIKER STREET CAT 🐈