Hello fellow Steemians I am proud to bring to you Round 3's theme and Round 2's winners! This week's theme has had over double the entries of last week and what a fantastic set of photos to see! I have been inspired to curate this competition through all the outstanding photography on display through Steemit. The notion is to help promote fantastic photographers, providing them with exposure, sharing photos in the community and offering SBD prizes for the top 3 photos. First prize will receive 1 SBD, second 0.750 SBD and third 0.500 SBD. Now this is just a starter, the more upvotes I receive for the post the bigger the prize I will be able to reward.
May I make it clear that all photos posted must be Your Own Original Work, Round 1 had a member trying to plagiarise work! I gave them a warning, someone had upvoted their photo by 9 SBD, but they were found by @Steemcleaners, who do great work! So please fellow Steemians, Post Your Own Work Only, it is only fair.
Each week I will post a new theme on Monday and you will be able to post your entries all week until the post reaches 7 days old. I shall pick the winners and they will be announced and rewarded the following day. Hopefully if there is enough interest I shall be able to add more themes to the competition and have 2 or 3 themes running each week.
Round 3 Theme - Animals in Black and White
I took this shot of this proud peacock in a nature reserve not to far from Bangkok, he was more than happy to show off his beautiful plumage, although I'm pretty sure he was more interested in his future partner than the Explorer's lens!
What can you post? I think black and white photography looks absolutely stunning, so there are only two things you need to do for this week's theme. Firstly take a shot of the animal of your choice and number two make sure it's black and white! The photo can be any animal you like. Again I think this is a pretty broad category, so yet again be creative and send me in your entries, I can't wait to see what you all come up with!
Round 2 Winners
This was a tough call this week, as all the entries were excellent with some great background information. It's great finding out the little extra details about your photos! But I managed to choose three winners after a lot of debate and some discussion with Mrs Explorer.
First Place - 
What a fantastic shot by
Second Place - 
Great shot from
Third Place - 
Other Entrants
I would also like to leave a special mention to 
How to Enter
- Follow
- Upvote this post
- Create a post with your entry using the #tepchallenge tag (The Explorer's Photo Challenge)
- Write about 50-100 words explaining your photo, it is always fascinating to hear the stories behind the photos
The Rules
- Make sure you have completed all the steps of how to enter, or you will not be eligible to win
- Don't try to pass off work of other's as your own, you'll be flagged and you ruin it for others
- Follow the weekly theme
- One entry per person
- You will only be eligible if you post your entry within the seven days
Make Yourselves Bigger Prizes!
- Invite fellow Steemians to enter the contest, sharing and showcasing their fantastic work
- Resteem the the weekly theme, more exposure, bigger prizes, a bigger community, more opportunities for views on your own pages, as the contest grows I'll be able to support more people with upvotes, mentions and resteems
- Donations towards the prize funds would be hugely appreciated to get this photo series popping! There are so many fantastic photographers that deserve more exposure and I hope that this project will be able to help them out
Good luck everyone, I can't wait to see your fantastic entries and award some of you prizes for your awesome work!
- Make sure you have completed all the steps of how to enter, or you will not be eligible to win
- Don't try to pass off work of other's as your own, you'll be flagged and you ruin it for others
- Follow the weekly theme
- One entry per person
- You will only be eligible if you post your entry within the seven days