First of all, I would like to thank all the participants of this contest because the level was excellent!
The contest is now finished and I received more than 100 ENTRIES for this 🐜 7 DAYS MACRO-PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 3 🐜! It's amazing but really hard to make a choice every day between all these entries... ^^

After having watched all the entries of the 5 finalists and read your comments on this post
🐜 7 DAYS MACRO-PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 3 🐜 THE CHALLENGERS SELECTED FOR THE FINAL! [Support your favorites] 👏, I made my choice. It was not easy to do but there is the fun of the game! =)

💰 PRICES 💰

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1st place: 15 STEEM

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2nd place: 10 STEEM

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3rd place: 5 STEEM

I'm so happy to announce THE BIG WINNER OF THIS CONTEST!!!

The BIG WINNER is: @jayclar30

CONGRATULATIONS to you!!!!!!!!!!!!! And thank you so much for sharing these amazing macro photo with us. These flowers are AMAZING!!! I love this second picture for its colors, so intense... Thanks to you, we remember how much nature is WONDERFUL!!!

ENTRY 1:

Here's my entry for today for the 7 Days Marco-Photography Contest 3 hosted by @flamingirl.

Today's photo was taken at my Mother-in-laws property of a spent dandelion. It was through a time were I was doing a lot of experimenting with my macro lens, I've had my lens for a long time and had not really used it very much, so I was pushing myself outside of my comfort zone. I took a number of shots that day that I really like and in particular, it is the many photos of the spent dandelions that are my favourite. Here is one of them...

• If you want to see his entry blog, click here: https://steemit.com/macrophoto-contest/@jayclar30/my-entry-for-the-7-days-macro-photography-contest-3

ENTRY 2:

Here's my entry for day 5 of the 7 Days Marco-Photography Contest 3 hosted by @flamingirl.

For today's entry I have gone with my favourite flower which is the Lotus, this one is called Cimson Velvet. This was taken in my garden, it had just opened that day and a sun shower had just passed which added to its beauty captured in this photo. What do you think?

-If you want to see his entry blog, click here: https://steemit.com/macrophoto-contest/@jayclar30/my-entry-for-the-7-days-macro-photography-contest-3-day-5

You will receive 15 STEEM within 12 hours on your wallet.

2nd PLACE for: @miroslavrc

ENTRY 1:

Hello everyone. I think, people who follows my posts, you probably know what equipment do I use for this kind of photography. Old Canon 600D is still the beast for this because it has crop sensor that will give me higher macro magnification, cheap Sigma 28-70 that costed like 10$ and macro reverse adapter for my Canon body that costed around 2$. This is the best equipment under 300$ for macro photography, you can also use even older camera body from Canon and you will get same results but smaller resolution. So for even less money you will get this result, that is amazing.

Camera Lens Shutter speed F-stop ISO
Canon 600D Sigma 28-70mm 1/80 sec. f/8 200

Thank you for stopping by! Have a nice day! :)

-If you want to see his entry blog, click here: https://steemit.com/macrophoto-contest/@miroslavrc/my-entry-for-the-7-days-macro-photography-contest-3

ENTRY 2:

Today, even higher magnification. I'm really happy how this photo came perfect, composition is great, there is not any distractions, rule of third dominates. He was on his natural habitat, I didn't glued him or froze him, because I heard stories where macro photographers just freeze their subject, literally. :D
This is one of the best photos of any insect that I took, in future there will be more amazing shots but for now this is my far greatest photo. :)

Camera Lens Shutter speed F-stop ISO
Canon 600D Sigma 28-70mm 1/200 sec. f/8 200

Here is before and after of this photo. There was a slightly edit of colors just to make this photo pop and nothing else.

-If you want to see his entry blog, click here: https://steemit.com/macrophoto-contest/@miroslavrc/my-entry-for-the-7-days-macro-photography-contest-3-day-3

You will receive 10 STEEM within 12 hours on your wallet.

3rd PLACE for: @boddhisattva

Another photo that I took during the summer photo-hunting at the flower garden.
Bees are very fussy insects. To photograph a bee is quite difficult. When I hunt a bee pollinating flowers, I have to do a lot of shots. And sometimes they make good photos among them.
Here, quite by chance, the flower petals created a very good atmosphere around the bee.
And here the original size picture.

Nikon D5000 + Sigma AF 17-50 + Closeup lens

-If you want to see his entry blog, click here: https://steemit.com/ntopaz/@boddhisattva/ntopaz--boddhisattva--1455924168--ntopaz-photography-photocircle-macrophoto-contest-art--2019-05-18-15-22-55--artwork--none

You will receive 5 STEEM within 12 hours on your wallet.

Thank you very much for your support and CONGRATULATIONS @jayclar30 and ALL OF YOU!!!

See you soon for A NEW CONTEST BY @FLAMINGIRL!

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