**Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!**

Welcome to the 162nd round of my special weekly photo challenge known as **Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun** :) 

I know a lot of photo contests with nature as the main theme were/are/will be hosted by various people on the Hive blockchain but I wanted to come up with something more than just another photo contest where participants would submit their best natural photos. Therefore, I decided to go for quite an unusual concept that I am going to introduce in the following lines.

The aim of the **Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun** photo challenge is not to make you dig up your photo archives and submit the best pictures of nature that you have ever taken. Instead, I want you guys to go out and appreciate the beauty of our nature right now. 

The internet (and the Hive blockchain as well) is flooded with picture perfect shots of landscapes, mountains, forests, beaches etc. taken years ago. But this is not what I want to see in this challenge. I want to see shots that may not be necessarily stunning but they must be fresh, proving that you have just physically spent some time outdoors in the fresh air. But remember that nature comes in many forms. It doesn´t have to be a pristine jungle or a deep remote forest. An urban park, a botanical garden, a little grove on the outskirts of your town - pretty much any place with some trees, plants, rocks, bodies of water or any other natural features would be just as fine ;) 

Obviously, there is no way for me to verify whether the photo that you submit in the challenge is really fresh or if it was even taken by you so I am relying on your honesty guys. The prizes for the winners (as described below) are more symbolical than overly motivating so I don´t expect too much fraudulent behavior in this challenge anyway. 

I want to keep the rules of this challenge as simple and benevolent as possible so let´s agree on just this:

**Only one entry (photo) per person per round.**

**The photo must be yours and not older than one week.**

**Add a few words about the photo, at least where and when you took it.**

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You can start submitting your entries to this round in the comment section below from now until the next round. If you want to create a separate post as your entry, you can do that but please always remember to submit your entry in the form of a comment here in this post as well. I only check the entries submitted here as comments.

Prior to publishing the next round post, I will pick 3 winners, give my full upvote on their entries and feature them in the next round of the challenge. I also give some smaller upvotes on the other entries too so that all participants get rewarded for their engagement.  

I usually host the challenge on Thursday but when needed for some reason, I can host it on some other day so better check my blog regularly not to miss out on it ;)

To keep up with you guys, I submit my own fresh natural photo to every round´s post too :) Here is my contribution to start out this round:
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*Those few warm and sunny days are gone and now we are back to the not so pleasant form of spring with cold temperatures, strong winds, cloudy skies and random mixtures of rain and snow. But I still go out of course and a couple of days ago, I was roaming around this little orchard here in Prague, Czech Republic where I clicked the above featured close up of some blooming trees. It was already quite late so the light was low and the picture is therefore nothing really fancy but I just checked out all of the other shots that I have taken over the past few days and unfortunately, I didn´t find anything better... Hopefully, next week, we will have more favorable weather because a lot of plants and trees out there in nature are already blooming so there is stuff to photograph, I just need a better light :)*

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In the last round, we had 10 participants. After some thorough consideration, I decided to pick these 3 winners:
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**@roronoa46 with this entry from Indonesia:**


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*Congratulations to the friends who were selected in the previous round. And this is my entry for this round, this photo I took last weekend when I along with my friends visited one lake in my area, this lake is called Lake Lut Tawar and it is one of the largest lakes in Aceh, Indonesia.*
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**@jlinaresp with this entry from Venezuela:**


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*Hello!... Here my entry to "Round 161". Title: "Macagua Hawk". An in flight capture on this beautiful bird of prey, also known as "Laughing Falcon" (Herpetotheres cachinnans). In times of drought the pairs come to nest in the nearby hills and usually feed on small snakes and other small reptiles. Location and date: Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela... March 23, 2023 at 9:AM. Nikon D7000 | 300 mm | F/7.1 | 1/2500s | IS0 500.* 





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**@momogrow with this entry from the Netherlands:**


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*This photo was taken some hours ago at Keukenhof, Lisse in North Holland. I will blog about my time there but not include this photo. I spent hours walking around this famous location but what I loved about this photo is the majestic trees and young tulip plants which are waiting patiently to spring forth with all its colours. The contrast in the photo reminded me of the beauty of nature and the 4 seasons. Although this is a well kept garden, it was lovely being outside in nature.*



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**Congratulations guys!  It was my pleasure to give you 100% upvotes on your entries :)** 

I am looking forward to what you will come up with in this round.


Have fun and appreciate the beauty of nature!
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I post this series in the [Amazing Nature](https://hive.blog/trending/hive-127788) community, a great community for all nature lovers. Feel free to check it out ;)

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