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 more to see ^^ .. To participate in #amazingnature just create a post that shows how amazing nature is. This can be anything from a beautiful flower 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 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 @elkezaksek.

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THIS WEEKS ENTRIES

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Here we have a amazing picture of a Leopard by @elkezaksek. She got this one in a lifetime chance to picture this majestetic cat while she was on a safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. It is such a pity to hear that during the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin in the 70's hundreds of thousands of people, but also the wildlife was extremely decimated by poaching. Unfortunately this is a truth that our diverse nsture has to duffer inmany places on the world. Thank you for that great post and this excellent contribution to the #amazingnature community. She is dtill new here on steemit, but her great blog really deserves a visit, so look her up ^^



@elkezaksek

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@qwerrie shows us us beautiful typical slow sunset. The picture was taken at the Koyonsaari island at Ladoga skerries, Karelia in Russia. This island has a huge sandy beach, which is rare to the north coast of ladoga lake, and features this great pink sky !



@qwerrie

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We all admire beautiful sunsets from time to time, but @iamraincrystal shows us this amazing full moon. The moon has such a great impact on earth and we can see it every night when we look up, but only a few people focus on our nightly skies. Thank you that you did ^^



@iamraincrystal

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This weeks entry by @hangin is this retro style moth. He found it when he was walking home from work on a wall fence and managed to capture one shot before she disappeared. I did not knew that there are approximately 160,000 species put there ! Thank you for being always such aware of the nature around you, also on the little beauties that mother nature offers to us.



@hangin

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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