SIMPLE SUNDAY IS OPEN! (Nature Photo Contest)
To participate, submit an original minimalist photo of nature and a short description in a comment on this post. The contest is open until 9:00 AM EST, March 12, and the winners will be announced on the same day. Looking forward to your submissions! BE CREATIVE and show us nature in unique ways!
The judge in today's contest is Raul Poenar (@raoul.poenar), a 33 years old self-taught landscape and portrait photographer from Romania who really loves what he does. "I appreciate the people I meet, the places I go to, and the friends I make. I love being outdoors, in the middle of a forest or on top of a mountain just before the sun rises or standing in the freezing cold just to get that shot. I'm very passionate about what I do and I'm constantly educating myself about various aspects of photography. I like a minimal approach to photography. Less is more." - Raul
The SBD acquired on the winners announcement (to be posted on Monday) at payout will be divided as follows:
First place: 20%
Second place: 12%
Third place: 7%
Seven honorable mentions: 3% each
Judge: 20%
Hostess: 20%
See also these stunning photo galleries featuring previous winners! Your upvotes and resteems will bring these talented photographers a better reward, so show them some love! :)
Trees Tuesday Winners Week 2
Water Wednesday Winners Week 2
Time Lapse Thursday Winners Week 2
Flora and Fauna Friday Winners Week 1
Simple Sunday Winners Week 1
Mountains Monday (@kieranstone)
Trees Tuesday (@jarvie)
Water Wednesday (@itchyfeetdonica)
Time Lapse Thursday (@eaglest)
Flora and Fauna Friday (@shadalene)
Simple Sunday (@raoul.poenar)
By submitting a photo, you agree to have it featured in the winners announcement post, and automatically entered in the weekly and monthly contests, should it be a winner. For a more detailed description of the Nature Photo Contest, please read the Introduction Post.
Photo of a tree's autumn leaves under a monotonous sky.
Honestly I don't see anything here. I would have liked to see just the tip of the tree against the sky in a square crop. That would have looked amazing
Thank you for your submission, @a0i! I like the chromatic and the melancholic feel of this photo. :)
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This is a cloud sunset shot taken from Joeseph D. Grant county park near San Jose California.
Thank you for your submission, @fivealive55. The movement and contrast in this photo are spectacular, they give the elements so much personality! Cool composition, too.
This minimalist enough? :) August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse. Made this photo last summer near Riverton, WY.
This is a yin yang type of image :) Really love how that halo of light shines through the darkness of the image
Thank you for your submission, @monotharch! Very cool shot.
This one is from last year, was a full moon night and was trying some tricks to understand moon photography, but best one was this in which I focused leaves of the tree and keeping moon in the background I called it Tattooed Moon😊😊, some time minimalism brings the best out.
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Haha the title suits the image. That's the first thing I thought when I saw it :)
Really? Wow so glad to know that, thank you
Nice concept here, @piyushpathak, and well executed too. I also wonder what it would looked like if the subject wasn't centered. Thanks for your submission!
Thanks a lot ! Yeah I tried that too ;)
I don't understand what minimalism is from the artistic point of view. My picture, even though it deviates from the nature idea, represents what a minimalist life is.
This is Cabo Polonio in Uruguay, a small village on the Atlantic coast. They live basically from fishing, handcrafts and tourism. There are no energy, and water is mainly captured from the rain.
A great sunday and an even better monday for you all!
@mrprofessor, if you look up minimalist photography you'll get a good idea of what the concept entails. I appreciate the comment, but as you may expect, the photo does not qualify in this contest..
Sure no problem! Just wanted to share a bit of Cabo Polonio and how they live a minimalistic life.
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Sure thanks
Thank you for your submission, @jlgc! This is a sweet aviary close-up. I like the contours, and the prevalence of white does it a minimalist look.
here is my entry for #simplesunday :)
This is a picture from a glass wall, I took it in Amsterdam it was a whole wall like glass art , I liked it a lot
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Well, I'm a sucker for patterns and textures and this image has it all, though it leans a bit toward the abstract side . Great image nontheless!
Thank you very much ! :)
@vee2180, I need some clarification from you about the subject of the photo, please. :) It is not clear to me whether this is a photo of glass as found in nature, or man-made glass. If the latter, I'm afraid it wouldn't qualify. If it is a nature photograph, then great! Either way, it is a gorgeous shot. :)
Hi @shadalene, it's a man made wall, actually , it was a glass artist who designed the wall :)
That is what I thought! Great artist, and your photo is superb, but unfortunately it doesn't quality as a nature photograph. :/ Thanks for understanding.
no problem ;)
Blood moon lunar eclipse from April 3, 2015.
Always nice to see the moon and the details and textures. The fact that it was a blood moon makes it even more special. Thanks for the entry!
although the sun comes up in my back garden, it goes down in the garden of my opposite neighbours. A present of nature twice a day. :-)
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Interesting concept there, @janine-ariane! Thanks for the entry. A little more nature would be welcome in this contest! :)
I can imagine, but it is simple sunday is it not :-) That little sun in the window made my evening.
it's the small things that deserve our attention
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