Hello Nature Lovers !

I would like to cordially invite you to another great week of the Amazing Nature Challenge. To participate in #amazingnature just create a post that shows how amazing nature is. This can be anything from a beautiful flowers and animal to an astonishing sunset.

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What is the purpose of this challenge ?

I am a huge lover of nature and enjoy taking pictures of all the lovely things that surround me every day, no matter if those are plants, animals or landscapes. I found steemit to be a brilliant place to find and watch nature pictures from all over the world. There is such a diversity of this content out there, thanks to all of you, from different perspectives and out of various motivations. I would like to collect all those beautiful snapshots in a compilation so that you can all benefit from the beauty that we are facing all the time, but so often are not able to appreciate in the modern times we are living in.

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Contest Rules :

• Use the #amazingnature tag in one of your post.
• The pictures that you post have to be your own.
• State in your post why those pictures are representing your amazing nature.
• Drop the link to your post in the comments. It is not mandatory but appreciated.
• Please try to submit only one post per challenge. Of course you can do more, but I try to stick to one picture in the announcement posts

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Possible Topics :

As nature covers an extreme wide range of topics there is anything possible. Amazing Natures broad categories would be:

• Botany
• Zoology
• Geology
• Landscapes

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I will always try to link and present all the steemians that entered for Amazing Nature in the entries section of the announcement posts that will be published roughly one week later. This way you will have a nice compilation of all the amazing nature pictures. I thought about creating the new title picture from the best picture of all participants. This time it is from @sallybeth.

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THIS WEEKS ENTRIES

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" This panorama shot by @boyerobert shows a beautiful landscape that nearly looks like a painting. It is a beautiful and peaceful scene at a silent lake"



@boyerobert

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"This stunning picture shows a lion family in Olmense Zoo. @seadbeady is a huge fan of the cat family, also her Zodiac sign, and could not resist to snapshot them for you."



@seadbeady

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"In this nice compilation @brittandjosie shows us some beautiful hydrangeas, fascinated clouds and skies, the Netherlands national icon the cow, a young swan family as well as a beach and a bee. Those are all her favorites to photograph and state the beauty of her Dutch homelands.
Holland on it’s best "



@brittandjosie

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"This one is a picture from @karbon. It shows the early hours of the day in the wilderness after a 7 day canoe trip with no sign or sound of human activity."



@karbon

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"Here we have a beautiful butterflies that is collecting sweet nectar in the botanical gardens of @bigsambucca's hometown in Sydney."



@bigsambucca

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"One of the amazing sights in the neighborhood of @dkkarolien is this stunningly beautiful bright-green geckos on the island. She managed to get this cute snapshot of this little one for us"



@dkkarolien

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"This extremely noisy and loud cicada was pictured by @alinix sitting on a tree stem"



@alinix

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"There are delicate and beautiful roses out there. @nelinoeva is one of those can not simply stop admiring them and find beauty is in every flower"



@nelinoeva

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"Another nice example that shows how amazing nature is. The pigeons, brought to us @catlady.natascha, learned from the little birds how to get some food."



@catlady.natascha

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"@oldmans went up to where eagles fly to presents us some beautiful landscape views on several mountain peaks"



@oldmans

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"@angelro has a weakness for landscapes. Here he shows a bridge, the only connection to a little village, during and before the monsoon season"



@angelro

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"A squirrel monkey eating an ice-cream bean in Costa Rica. This was submitted by @sallybeth23. She loves nature and taking photos of the world around her"



@sallybeth23

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"The Potawatomi Falls on Black River in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan are presented by @melinda010100. You can see a series of scenic waterfalls as the river drops to enter Lake Superior"



@melinda010100

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"Here we have a large series of examples for hoe amazing nature is by @qwerrie. Those range from carnivorous plants to champignons that are punching the asphalt and have a stronger thirst to grow than a stone"



@qwerrie

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"This housefly is one of those animals that can be found everywhere on earth and all of us knows this little surviving artist that was submitted by @johannpiber"



@johannpiber

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"Those endangered Sumatran Orangutans were spotted by @kheys while he was trekking in the jungle"



@kheys

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There is also a discord server for amazing nature where you can promote your posts or read the content of others and discuss about any topic that comes to your mind. It still try to get it running ^^

https://discord.gg/Pgbnrdj

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I thank all of you who participated in this week and hope that you enjoyed the idea of the Amazing Nature Challenge. This is already a beautiful firs compilation. Maybe this can be the start of a nice new Nature community. Of course the format is open for all kind of critics and the discord server open for anyone who is interested in more than just this posts. It is my first time I try something that big and are happy about anyone who wants to join this little adventure.

Best wishes,
Adalger