Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
Welcome to the 81st round of my special weekly photo challenge known as Appreciate Beauty of Nature with 
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
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.
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:
After a couple of very cold and rainy days, we finally got some sunshine again today here in Krakow, Poland. I took advantage of the nice weather to go for a short morning walk around the Jordan Park where I also snapped this random shot of trees and a little grass covered hill. A morning walk in a park is a great and pleasant way to start the day. There were just a few people with their dogs and a bunch of school kids having their physical education lesson in the fresh air.
In the last round, we had 8 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
Hi everybody, this photograph, it was taken on August 24 this year in my home town, Ha Tinh, Viet Nam. I drove my motobike when the sun was going down. So I pulled my camera out and snapped a shot. It is awesome to have a moment like this.
This is my participation of the week with yesterday's faint sunset threatened by a storm that arrived moments later on the beach Naiguata-Vargas Venezuela, not allowing to get a more colorful one and thus the beach day ended without a dip due to the strong waves! LOL.
The heat waves seem to be over, but still I mostly just stay at home. Monday, though, I had to go to a courier service to pick up my new credit card. Since the office is close to the coast, I took the chance & some pictures. Here's one. Orange kitten in orange sunset. Only partially nature, since it is a domesticated cat on a wall, but looks nice. Taken at the central sea promenade of Patras, Greece. There are lots of cats at that part of the coast, because people built some small cat houses there & feed the cats. Not really good for nature, in my opinion. At least to me, it seems there are fewer songbirds than before. Not the cats' fault, though.
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!
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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