Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
Welcome to the 19th 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 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 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. Also, I haven´t reserved a fixed day for this challenge yet so it might be movable but it will definitely be hosted once every week.
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.
I am happy to share another fresh natural photo from my Czech homeland with you. I took this picture yesterday while biking around the Moravice River just outside of the Silesian town of Opava. There are many great bike lanes in the Czech Republic and you can enjoy some beautiful views of the surrounding landscape while riding around.
In the last round, we had 10 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
This is my beautiful home town coastline of Byron Bay in N.S.W , Australia every morning i get to see this view as i jog along the beach up along the pathway to the top of Cape Byron Lighthouse and then back down along the beach again and home for a nice breakfast after completing my 6km jog. I took this one yesterday morning 🌞
Hey I would almost miss your contest again... I have some nice photos from previous weekend when we were to Posočje. There could be more of them, but there was a slight change of plans as our toddler get a little ill. Safety first... There will be another opportunity to catch more good photos from my homeland, untill then I will try my luck with the one below.
Here's my contribution. It was taken today while mountain biking. As I was reaching a small village from the top of the hill a great vineyard just appeared and I could not stand to park my bicycle and take this shot to have two of my hobbies together, cycling and wine. Photo taken south of Barcelona, in the Penedes wine region where they make Cava wine (similar to champagne).
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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