Last weekend we had a lot less entries than normal. This is because I forced photographers to take a brand spanking new image that weekend, which is particularly difficult with portraits! So because we had such a hard one last time, we're going to have an easier one. I'd still like you to go out and take a new photograph, but I won't force it with the verification.

At the very least, use a photo that has not been posted to Steemit before!

Guest Judge for SPC#6 — @dercoco!

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This week for Steemit Photo Challenge #6, let's see your

Natural Landscapes

Get your Ansel Adams on and go out into nature to capture the grandeur of landscape.
See lots of his photos here

Other landscapes can be found here

I want to see wide shots of landscape featuring trees, mountains, fields, rivers, sea or all of the above!
You can do colour or black and white.

I don't want it to feature man-made objects heavily. IDEALLY no traces of humans. If there's a tiny house up on a mountain, fine.. I'm not going to penalise for small traces once it doesn't feature heavily. But the ideal would be absolutely NO traces of humans.

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Prizes

These are made possible by the support of the community, the majority of the post rewards go towards the winners, plus donations by @berniesanders the official sponsor of the Steemit Photo Challenge.

First Place — 150 Steem

Second Place — 100 Steem

Third Place — 50 Steem

Honourable Mentions — 10 Steem Each

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Rules And Conditions

Please read these carefully and adhere to them

• No more than 3 entries will be considered, if you post more than 3 then only the first 3 will be considered.

• Deadline for entry is midnight my time (UTC-4) on Sunday

• All entries must be a post tagged both #photography and #steemitphotochallenge

• The Title should contain "SteemitPhotoChallenge Entry" along with the title of your work.

• Let us know the medium used to produce the photograph, it may be more impressive based on what it is.

• Basic processing is allowed.

• Any medium or format is allowed — iphone, ipad, film, digital, point and shoot, drone, whatever. Once it takes a picture. Note that image quality will be considered.

• Multiple Entries can all go in one post, just put the details under the image.

• If you would like, use the #SteemitPhotoChallenge tag across social media like Twitter, FB and Instagram. It may drive more users to the platform.

• Any attempt to steal others' work is considered a serious infraction by the community, so don't do it. Please don't waste your and our time by posting some image from the net.

• Every effort will be made to ensure that we do not reward theft. All images will be reverse checked, if the image has been found on more than 2 “major” websites, it will be disqualified unless reasonable proof can be shown to prove ownership of the original. If there is any doubt whatsoever about the ownership of the photograph, I reserve the right to disqualify the image. It is in your interest to provide any proof necessary. I would appreciate any help from the community in finding plagiarism where I might have missed it.

• The photographs will be judged on how well they met the challenge, the quality of the image, the composition, lighting, exposure, creativity and the general aesthetics which means that yes, it is subjective.

^{By entering this competition you acknowledge that you own the rights to the photographs and allow for me to re-post the image should it receive a winner or honourable mention position.}

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Consider hosting your images with Steemimg created by @blueorgy

It is the first dedicated Steemit Image hosting website, set up with tag categories for easy viewing of images, and is also a sponsor of the Steemit Photo Challenge. It's also really convenient for copying markdown for multiple images. I suggest uploading to an account rather than as a guest, to keep your images tied to your name.

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NEW PRIZE GIVEAWAY:

Over the next week I will be selecting a couple people to win 1 month membership to KelbyOne Training, all you have to do is tag me in your new photography post and say somewhere "@jamtaylor I'd like to win the KelbyOne 1 Month Membership!" At the end of the week I'll announce the winner. You must be willing to provide your email address to me in private and work with me in getting you set up and running. You can enter as many times as you like!

The first winner is @violino!

Please get in contact with me on steemit.chat so we can arrange that.

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Previous winners:
Steemit Photo Challenge Week 1 - Animal Portrait
Steemit Photo Challenge Week 2 - Shadows
Steemit Photo Challenge Week 3 - Desolation
Steemit Photo Challenge Week 4 - Nature Macro/Closeup
Steemit Photo Challenge Week 5 - Emotive Human Portrait

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