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Welcome to the 25th Edition of Photo Friday - Hosted by @qurator!

Below you will find some unbelievable images captured by your fellow Qurites from all over the world! See what adventures they have shared with all of us! Don't forget to vote for your favorite and if you'd like to nominate your own image for next week's competition, make sure to comment #nominate below.

Note: some of you have been curated twice since the start of the Daily Qurator and some have been curated only once. As the Daily Qurator is gaining fame with every passing day, many new steemians are asking/will ask to join us. So, expect to see posts from new users for now. When the opportunity arises, posts from older users will be curated once again.

Each Friday we will select 5 Qurites and feature their photography in our Daily Qurator post. Each Qurite featured in this post needs to comment with their photo featured in this post. The user with the most upvotes on their comment (not money value) will win a Tier 5 membership for 30 days! The votes will be counted when this post reaches payout.

Want to take part in Photo Friday? NOMINATE! After you upvoted your favorite photo!

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Want to take part in the next Photo Friday? Sure you can! Simply comment in the comment section with #nominate.

We will then consider your account and look over your feed for any Photography related posts for the upcoming Photo Friday

DO NOT:

Post links and/or pictures of your most recent posts. We will not choose them. Why? Well, we want the nominees to also benefit from being in the Photo Fridayy Edition. If you give us a link now and we use it for the next issue of Photo Friday your post has most likely reached payout. That means not extra upvotes... We will select the most recent posts from your feed.

So instead, just include#nominatein your comment of this post (don't forget to vote for your favorite photo first).
We will take it from there and consider your feed for the next Photo Friday.

We hope this can spark some more interest in the photography community within Qurator. Hopefully to get more users to visit photography related blogs and appreciate your photography. Hopefully there will also be some nice rewards on your comment in this post.

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We have made it easy for all participants by providing the links to their photos that they can just copy and paste into the comment section of this post to officially enter the competition!

PLEASE NOTE, ONLY THOSE FEATURED IN THIS POST MUST PASTE THE LINKS BELOW IN THE COMMENT SECTION. POSTING THE LINK IF IT IS NOT YOURS COULD RESULT IN A FLAG.

^{@ratel
https://steemitimages.com/DQmSoZAWGZVyRkWQXNSkCXqM2ZnouJfZFPFDtF8VbqtcVVL/DSC_5009.jpg}

^{@castleberry
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://image.ibb.co/jTM2wJ/DSCN1861.jpg}

^{@nelinoeva
https://steemitimages.com/500x600/https://steemitimages.com/DQmZzmS5w8ZDWRm6qVY3wA35BGKDtCjxCQxsN9gdGYGtw3D/1526481298019.jpg}

^{@dmytrokorol
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXpKyDQgwa2k4hP5MijjFUgsud8FNnAnndEkQxe25byVd}

^{@intrepidphotos
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/http://www.intrepidphotos.com/intrepidphotos/PermaLinks/CrookedRiverAuroraSquare5150.jpg}

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Let the competition and upvotes begin! Best of luck to all the Qurites participating!

^{Note: Any upvotes from pay4bots will not be counted.
Spamming messages and asking for upvotes on your comment is frowned upon and could lead to being disqualified. Stick to friends and people you know!}

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Your Quality Curator ~( @goldendawne )~ Presents:

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@ratel	birdwatching

Ratel's Photos 163 Forest Birds- 115

The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)... In Russia and Belarus, these birds are also called "ladle" for their similarity... This tit sat and watched the rest of the birds mixed bird flocks

Let's take a moment and visit @ratel's post and do a little bird watching today! Make sure to look closely at one of the little feathery guys... it seems as if one of the birds picture is missing a leg. Look closely

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@castleberry	macrophotography

Red Flower Bud Cone

Check this thing out! Flower Cones Rock!

Maybe @castleberry will stop in and tell us what kind of flower will bloom from this cone bud.

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@nelinoeva	macrophotography

The Bumblebee And The Snail

I am not going to tell a kind of fable. It just happened today to encounter the bumblebee during my lunch break. Clouds were covering the sky and it was perfect for some macro shots. I was looking at the yellow dandelion because I spotted the other day tiny ants hiding in the flower. And then the bumblebee just came closer and I started clicking to get the best of it. The snail, well, the snail was just minding its own business

WHAT an incredible moment here! The bumble bee and the snail; the most unlikeliness of friends. Stop over and see the other close-up images of this bumble bee, he DOES NOT look too happy to see @nelinoeva snapping some pictures.

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@dmytrokorol	photography

Botanica- 16 Photo

There is a botanical garden in 10 minutes from our home. It even has a mini zoo with the deer, birds, sheep and meerkats... We go there with the kids often. They like to ride their kick scooters on the paths deserted during the work days, feed the deer and play on the playground. We had been there like dozen times, and I am not very fascinated by the photography opportunities there

This is just one of SO MANY unbelievable images in @dmytrokorol's post. You have got to see them all to believe this! GREAT talent is obvious in these images.

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@intrepidphotos	photofeed

Crooked River Aurora

This is a shot of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights over the Crooked River this past week. The Crooked River sits at 54 degrees North in Northern British Columbia. It is a long exposure on a particularly dark night and I was happy to capture my first high altitude blue/purple fringed aurora. The blue/purple fringe on the top comes from the interaction of the solar wind with hydrogen and helium in the ionosphere

We've all heard about the “northern lights”, but how many of us have actually seen them. These are the most beautiful images captured by @intrepidphotos. Head over to the post to see more images.

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Good luck to all the entries! May the best photo win!

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Congratulations to the winner of the 24th Photo Friday: @mehta.

Prize: Tier 5 upvotes worth around $0.67 for 30 days!

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Like the Photo Friday series?

Go check out Tasty Tuesday where we take 5 great food related pictures and host the same kind of competition. Go cast your votes and nominate your friends! Steem on!

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Your Quality Content Curator

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@scrooger | @boontjie | @goldendawne | @ewkaw | @ackhoo | @brumest | @stresskiller

Special thanks to @kryzsec for the SBD contributions.

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