Hello Nature Lovers !

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

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What is the Purpose of the Contest ?

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 and their stories 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 :

As this former challenge is now a contest be so kind and follow those simple contest rules.

• Use the #amazingnature tag for thetopic of your post and clearly mention that your post is an entry for this contest. This assures that this contest can grow and reach out to as many nature lovers as possible.
• All pictures that you use in your post have to be your own. You can use the amazing nature banner if you like.
• Clearly state why those pictures are representing your amazing nature. This is an essential part of this contest.
• Drop the link to your post in the comments below so all participants can find it easily and fully enjoy this weekly collection. You can add a picture if you like.
• Please submit only one post per contest. Of course you can do more, but I will stick to one entry per steemian.

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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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Prizes to Win :

• 1st Place : 3 SBI
• 2nd Place : 2 SBI
• 3rd Place : 1 SBI

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. As an special addition, the new title picture of the contest will be created from the entry of the winner of the contes. This time it is from @hangin.

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THIS WEEKS WINNERS

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This entry by @wongbraling themes "Time to recovery our live by contemplation in aloneness." It is a beautiful and simply post with only a few words, but with an immense impact. He writes it ip as follows: "Stand alone in a free nature world. Quietly moment with simply beauty of nature live Sinergy of Liveness. Air, Land, and Sky combined with Green of tree. Humankind is a Guest in nature house. Just transit to get the less drink." I really love how he describes his personal amazing nature and I got him up on the first place.



@wongbraling

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Here we have a pair of horned owls that built a nest in a big vine that is growing up on a pine tree near @myjob. He is so amazed by them and really blessed to see them flying around and chasing other birds, for the purpose of chasing to eat or to keep them away from their nest. This must really be awesome to watch ^^



@myjob

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When @karbon is thinking abou nature, his first thought are expansive forest, with no development and a river running through it. I have to admit, this are mine too ^^ Here he shows us some pics from the Northwest Terretories in Canada where he took a canoe trip through untouched nature. That for sure must be an amazing personal nature experience !



@karbon

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

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@elkezaksek

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@alinix

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@kaminchan

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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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Previous Participants :

@alinix @angelro @bigsambucca @brittandjosie @cocolefleur @dkkarolien @elkezaksek @ellenripley @hangin @iamraincrystal @johannpiber @karbon @kheys @melinda010100 @molometer @myjob @nelinoeva @qwerrie @sallybeth23 @seadbeady @viking-ventures @wongbraling

If you want me to take you out of the list, just tell me. And if you want your picture, in the case you are the winner, to be used as a new title picture, just write it in the comments while posting your contest entry.

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Best wishes,
Adalger