Hello my friends!
Round #61 of the #POBPHOTOCONTEST has just finished. Thank you all for joining my contest.
A special thanks to the loyal contestants that submit their photo posts for this contest every week or almost every week.
Since it is Christmas next week and New Year the week after that I'm going to have a few weeks break from the #POBPHOTOCONTEST.
Considerations for 2023
This break also gives me some time to think about the #POBPHOTOCONTEST.
I've been trying to organize a contest that is accessible for everyone, not only for skilled photographers.
Although the number of contestants have been declining in the past few weeks I do know people are enjoying it.
In the past few weeks I've been spending a bit less time on Hive. I kept organizing the #POBPHOTOCONTEST, but it was merely announcing a new round, selecting the winners and paying the prizes.
I really doubt if this is the way I want to continue this contest, so I will be using this break to think about that.
Please feel free to comment on this post.
About the #POBPhotocontest
The #POBphotocontest is a weekly contest which has a different subject every week. Everyone can join the contest. The more people that join, the more fun! I really like seeing all your photographs and of course the accompanying story. When you join, tell something about your photo. Make it a nice post eventually with some more photographs. Tell us what you shot and why you took this picture.
It's all about the passion for photography! You can use a photo from your archive, but I rather want you all to go out and shoot nice photographs!
I try to give all submissions a personal comment and a 100% upvote from my 
You can find the specific rules for this contest further on in this post.
The contest ends next Sunday 8:00 PM CEST.
I will personally judge the photos and select 3 winners.
The winners will receive all POB author rewards of this post.
Mentions
Do you want to get a mention when a new round of the #pobphotocontest starts, just let me know in the comments.
Rules
- Create a post with your photo
- Add a (short) description of your photo. What do we see? Where did you take it? Why did you take it?
- Add the #pobphotocontest tag to that post (this is how I can find all submissions).
- You can add more photos to that post, but only the first one in your post will be your submission for the contest.
- Place a link to the post you created in the comment on this announcement post.
- You can add your image to the comment too.
Prizes
All the POB tokens this post gets will be distributed among the winners.
The 1st place gets 50%, the 2nd 30% and the 3rd place will get 20% of the POB payouts of the contest post.
So for example; if this post receives 50 POB votes, the pay-out will be 25 POB.
#1 will get 12,5 POB (50%), #2 will get 7.5 POB (30%) and #3 will get 5 POB (20%).
Apart from the POB prizes the winners also get Ecency points generously donated by
The winner will receive 100 Ecency points. The 2nd place 50 and the third place receives 25 points.
These points can be used in the 
What is POB?
POB stands for Proof of Brain. Proof of Brain is a community on Hive where you can actually post anything you want. The community has it's own POB token. When you post in the proofofbrain community or use the #POB or #ProofOfBrain tags on your post you can receive POB tokens.
When you stake your POB tokens you will earn curation rewards for voting on POB posts.
Just check out https://hive-engine.com/ how many POB tokens you have.
Not using your POB tokens? Please consider delegating them to my POB account
FriendlyMoose
Photographing is my passion. Although I like photography in general, nature photography is one of my favourite subjects. I often go out with my camera for a hike to capture the beauty of nature.
I'm sharing my photos on Hive, Noise.Cash & APPICS.
I would love to read what you think of my photos in the comments.
Discord: friendlymoose#5717
Do you like photography?
Every week I create a post with an overview of all the #photocontests on Hive.
I also host my own #POBPhotocontest
Click the hashtags to check it out!