Hello Nature Lovers !

I would like to cordially invite you to another great week of the Amazing Nature Challenge. There were already so many excellent entries regarding how amazing nature can be in the past episodes of this challenge and there is still so much to see ^^ .. To participate in #amazingnature just create a post that shows how amazing nature is. This can be anything from a beautiful flowers or animal to an astonishing sunset.

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What is the purpose of this challenge ?

I am a huge lover of nature and really enjoy to take 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 weekly 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 your post for the challenge.
• 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 as all participants and also myself can find it easily.
• Please try to submit only one post per challenge. Of course you can do more, but I try to stick to one picture per steemian in the announcement posts.

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Possible Topics :

As nature covers an extreme wide range there is anything possible. Amazing Natures categories could be anything from the following topics:

• 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. The new title picture of the challenge will be created from the best picture of all participants. This time it is from @molometer.

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THIS WEEKS ENTRIES

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"Here we can see pictures from a visit of @dkkarolien to the he Black River Gorges National Park on Mauritius. Apart from the beautiful scenery and breathtaking views down the gorge, some amazing waterfalls and great hiking routes it is s also the habitat of these beautiful macaque monkeys."



@dkkarolien

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"@qwerrie shows us this beautiful picture of a insects' feast during a sunny day at Koinasaari island at Ladoga lake. He visited there last Summer but already is planning to revisit this magic location very soon."



@qwerrie

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"Here you can see some lavender loving bees, the amazing pollinators of our world by @molometer. How got a nice series of pictures of those fantastic insects that have been drawn in with the new planting that his daughter did in the garden."



@molometer

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"During a short hike through the Šunik stream in Slovenia @johannpiber noticed this little guy, who was sleepy sitting on a yellow flower."



@johannpiber

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"Here we have an beautiful shoot of a sunset from Sirmione at Lake Garda in Italy by @seadbeady. It was one of the last holidays together with the kids and they even waited all to go to the beach until it was time for the sun to set, which did take some convincing."



@seadbeady

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"This weeks entry from @nelinoeva shows this lonely pansy that reminded her of Mickey Mouse. Perhaps the dark petals above looked like big ears. There is even a nice little videoclip of a bee hidden in here."



@nelinoeva

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I thank all of you who participated in this week and hope that you enjoyed the Amazing Nature Challenge. I hope for more excellent content and maybe this can be the start of a nice new Nature community. Of course the format is open for all kind of critics that can increase the quality of the challenge and I am always happy about anyone who wants to join this little adventure.

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Best wishes,
Adalger