Hi everyone!
I reached the milestone of 500 followers last week and I decided to celebrate this little achievement by holding a special photo contest for 5 SBD.
As I love writing about nature and I usually illustrate the posts with my own photos, I picked Natural Photography as the theme for the contest.
I was really surprised by the enormous response from you, my fellow Steemians, as I received dozens of great entries and I want to say a big thank-you to everyone who took part in it. You can see all the entries in this post.
I had a hard time deciding the 5 winning photos but after some serious consideration, I picked these 5 entries:
by @borran
by @loneranger
Congratulations to all of you guys! Your photography skills are amazing :)
I already sent the rewards to your wallets :)
Note: I didn’t want to use any of the winning images as the cover photo for this post without a consent of the author so I used mine. It is a landscape shot I took in Punta Uva, Costa Rica.
I am going to run some more contests soon so if you don’t want to miss out on them, make sure to follow me ;)
If you enjoy my content, feel free to upvote and resteem :) I don’t always follow back but I upvote original and interesting comments on my posts. Have a wonderful day and Steem on!
Next. I'll the join contest 😁
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Ok, looking forward to your entries :)
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Awww, so sweet news right before I go to bed(midnight here in Australia ;p)! Thank you @phortun for picking my shot! Congrats to other winners too. Beautiful selection!
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Well-deserved win Donica, this shot is incredible. Exactly the type of photos I like the most. Like Matt just said, I think I didnt see that photo in other contests before so let me think you were saving that shot for me :D :))
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Haha, cool to know! You remind me to enter it to more contests! ;)
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amazing photography ,,,,you did justice in picking up the winners ,,,,,congrats to all winners :)
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Thanks :)
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pleasure :) hope you will soon announce the next contest then i'll must participate :)
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Beautiful selection of the winning photos!!!
Well done @phortun and congratulations to the winners 😀! !!!
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Thanks Alina, glad you like them :) I hope you will join some of my future contests too :)
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Thank you so much for choosing my photo! I feel like I'm in incredible company with the other 4! Somehow I don't think I've seen the submission from @itchyfeetdonica before. That is a beautiful shot!
And again congratulations on your milestone! I have no doubt 1000 will be coming in your near future!
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Hey Matt, thanks for your kind words! If you are interested in more details of that place, here's a short post I did 2 months ago:
https://steemit.com/landscapephotography/@itchyfeetdonica/13-reach-torres-del-paine-in-a-difficult-way
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Thanks Matt! Yeah, it was the first time I saw that photo of Donica too - I think she was saving that shot for my contest :D
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Awwwn congratulations
Its so sad i didn't get to know about it sooner.
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You will know the next time :) Will be happy to have you competing in my contests.
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Que buena iniciativa. Muy bonitas las fotos de la participación. Tu foto me hace recordar las espectaculares playas de mi Venezuela, son únicas, de verdad. Y la participación de @itchyfeetdonica me ha encantado, bello el contraste de las montañas, lo árido y los animales.
Felicitaciones por tanta participación en tu concurso @phortun
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¡Gracias! @rosibelsac Tomé esa foto en Torres del Paine en Chile. Visité la mayoría de los países de América del Sur cuando vivía en Chile, pero aún no en Venezuela. ¡Me encantaría visitar tu país algún día! =)
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Gracias Rosi, tienes razón, conseguí algunas fotos realmente hermosas en el concurso :) Donica es una fotógrafa increíble :))
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Thanks for the contest! :).. I am looking forward for the next ones!
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I thank you for your great entry, well-deserved win ;)
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I loved the winning photos ... I will follow you to compete in the next ... so I invite you to follow me and visit my blog. this is the link of my last publication, I await your recommendations...
https://steemit.com/photography/@kmejias/4-pictures-4-favorites-4-beautiful-places
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Hi, you have some nice photos on your blog :) Feel free to submit them in one of my future contests :)
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Congrats! Keep on going!
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Wow, thank you so much :) Means a lot coming from you, one of the travel icons here on Steemit :)
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Lol you flattered me. I was just lucky to join Steemit early enough.
Steem on!
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Good for you :) I joined pretty recently so I had a lot to make up for haha :D Thanks for your support and the follow, followed back ;) Have a great day and Steem on :)
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Awesome work 🌏
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Amazing, thanks for the pick! I love the other shots as well!
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