Nature Photo Contest Week #6 - FLORA AND FAUNA FRIDAY IS OPEN!

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NATURE PHOTO CONTEST WEEK #6 - FLORA AND FAUNA FRIDAY IS OPEN!

PARTICIPATION RULES

1. Upvote this post.
2. Share a favorite photograph of flora or fauna in one of the following ways:

Option 1. Create a comment in reply to this post, including:
- a photograph of flora or fauna
- a short description of the photograph.

Option 2: Create a post on your page, including:
- a photograph of flora or fauna
- a short description of the photograph
- The first tag must be #naturephotocontest
- The second tag must be #floraandfaunafriday.

The contest ends at 9:00 AM EST tomorrow, April 7.
The judge in this contest is @mrprofessor.

PRIZES AND PAYMENTS

The SBD on the winners announcement (to be posted tomorrow) at payout will be divided between the winners as follows: First place: 30%, Second place: 20%, Third place: 10%, Seven honorable mentions: 5% each.
The SBD on this post will be divided equally between the judge and the hostess.

If you choose option 2 and include more photos and text, only the first photo and the first paragraph will be considered.
Photos that are not original will be disqualified and reported. If plagiarism is determined on a winning photo, the winner must refund the prize.
Editing is accepted, but please, no added elements to the photos, and no heavy retouching.
By submitting a photo, you agree to have it featured in the winners announcement post, and automatically entered in the monthly contests, should it be a winner.

DAILY THEMES
Mountains Monday - #mountainsmonday
Trees Tuesday - #treestuesday
Water Wednesday - #waterwednesday
Textures Thursday - #texturesthursday
Flora and Fauna Friday - #floraandfaunafriday
Simple Sunday - #simplesunday

Looking forward to your submissions! BE CREATIVE and have fun!
For more details, please see the Introduction.
The Nature Photo Contest was created and is maintained by @shadalene.

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American Marten (Martes americana), also known as a Pine Marten, in the snow on Hudson Bay Mountain near Smithers in Northern British Columbia. Martens normally eat small mammals such as squirrels and rodents. They are however related to the wolverine and capable of hunting much larger snowshoe hares and marmots. I was lucky enough to see this guy out of the corner of my eye while I was snowboarding. He ran down a tree well; so I boarded over, took my backpack off, got my camera out, changed out the wide angle lens for the 400mm, and waited. After sitting there quietly for a few minutes he then popped his head up again.

Image taken by and remains the Copyright of Robert Downie - http://www.robertdowniephotography.com

Here's my entry, shot in Tivoli park in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This grasshopper came to help dig potatoes. It was at the end of August. He jumped to his shovel and looked at us curiously.

https://steemit.com/naturephotocontest/@nikonat/nature-photo-contest-week-6-flora-a

This week we were visiting Algonquin provincial park. There was a beautiful raccoon which was enjoying the sap of a maple tree.
This a the photo I took from the raccoon.

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Lavender growing wildly on the edge of cliffs and mountains in northern Lanzerote. I get so excited when I see this flower in the wild!

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a bird perched on a branch, looking around for food beside sunbathing.
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99% of my photos were never edited and published, as I did not like them straight after the shoot. This is one of those forgotten gems, just stumbled over it while browsing the catalogue and found it not so bad after all with some editing.

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