Well steemians, it looks like I am not the only one who enjoys this contest.
I’ve really been enjoying all of your photos, and the adventures behind the shots too! Being someone who really enjoys plants and animals, it is great to see so many photographs of plants and animals together, in some combination photography!
EXAMPLES
Before I get into who won the contest last week, I’ll once again review what I am looking for by featuring some new photos of mine.
When I say “combination photography” I mean that you should combine two elements; plants and animals. At least one plant and at least one animal should be featured in your photo. Here are two examples using caterpillars.
Besides simply providing the images, I also require that those entering this contest provide a proof photo as well. Two main versions of proof photos exist. One kind features the same combination of plants & animals with a written paper in the photo with your username, the date, contest name, etc. to prove that you took the photo for the contest.
The other type of proof is just a selfie with the animal and plant. Here are my examples for the photos featured above.
Once you see the proof photos there should not be any doubt in your mind that I actually took the photos I shared above, because you can see me right there! The written proof works in the same way.
THE WINNERS!
There were so many excellent entries once again that I struggled to make the decisions, but in the end I had to, didn’t I? The Winner gets 50% of the liquid post payout from the Week Two Post and the two runner ups each get 12.5% of the same.
THE WINNER
@whistlejacket
FIRST RUNNER UP
SECOND RUNNER UP
There were many, many more great entries, and I am blessed to have seen them all. Although the official way to enter this contest is by including your entry photo and the proof photo in a reply to my post, I strongly encourage others to make an actual post featuring their entry as well. Sometimes people who don’t win get paid more for their post than if they had actually won!
ON TO WEEK 3!
By now you should have a clue about what this contest is and how to enter, but here are the official rules just to make sure. Enjoy, and I am looking forward to seeing what you can come up with.
HERE ARE THE OFFICIAL RULES:
- Photo entries must be placed in the reply/comment section of this post.
- Submissions may also be made into posts, but it is not necessary.
- A proof photo will also be required. This can be in the form of a selfie with the subjects from the photos or in the form of your username written on a piece of paper in a photo, etc. Basically, you must prove the originality of your work. Therefore, your entry comment should include two photos.
- Users have between now and the time of the post payout to enter this contest.
- I will personally select one winner to award half of the liquid SBD payout from this post to and two runner ups who will each get 25% of the same.
- Enter as many times as you like!
- Depending on the interest in this contest, I may have it be ongoing.
TL;DR
If you reply to this post with a photo of a plant and animal together and include a proof photo before the post payout from this post, you may win a portion of the post payout.
LET THE 3RD WEEK OF THE CONTEST BEGIN!!!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-giant-swallowtail-on-marigold-plant-from-cover-image
Until next time…
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Huge congratulations to the winners. Amazing photos! Thanks for having this competition @papa-pepper.
Wow these ugly caterpillars gives me the hope that someday and I will become something beautiful 😂
Good attitude!
So this is the first combination I have found during a quick forage in the garden especially for this weeks contest. My raspberry canes are covered in these shield bugs - feasting on the last few raspberries that I've neglected to pick. Mysteriously tricky to get into focus but beautiful wings, shining gold in the bright sun.
...and happy enough to sit on my nose for verification.
No fair! You set the bar too high!!!! XP'
That golden spot is so neat!
naaa - I don't think they are great photos really but just sharing for fun and to support an ace contest. The gold is groovy though isn't it? We've home educated our children for the last 3 years. They're about to start a new adventure at a Steiner school but I think we're always going to be home educators at heart.
Here's my entry for this round. Snail on Lemon Leaves.
https://steemit.com/photography/@andesign/macro-photography-for-papa-peppers-combination-photography-contest-bekicot-di-atas-daun-lemon-snail-on-lemon-leaves-201792t19453510z
That's delightful! I love snails :)
Thanks @monkeygentle
So cool!
Thanks @ellicia
this is something that is full of eye foresight and patience to take this moment is perfect
Here's my second entry for this round. Caterpillar on The Lemon Leaves.
Check this post
Nice!! I LOVE CATERPILLAR
I am really excited to share what I captured today. We traveled to a little town called Middletown, Indiana. I wanted to get photos of the creek at the park and the buildings downtown. As we were driving in I saw this house with the most beautiful flowers, I was taking photos of some of them from the sidewalk when the owner of the home came out and is a photographer too and invited me on her property and showed me some of her creatures, that I am proud to enter into this contest. I hope you enjoy my entries.
I know in my close up the plants the spider has it's web on disappears I hope that doesn't disqualify the entry, but if it does I have a back up entry
Awesome spider and seriously weird and cool web!
thank you very much. I thought it was kind of weird but cool too
This is my last entry for this round..
Hola papa-pepper aqui va mi segunda entrada.
Foto de prueba
Here i come again @papa-pepper,a lonely caterpillar on glory tree flower!
Got to it early this week!! Thanks for the fun like always!!
these are dead plants, do they still count? proof for one and two
I like this guy and the way he appears to be challenging me!! and proof
https://steemit.com/photography/@tiredmama/combination-photography-contest-tiredmama-entries-1-2-and-3
They do still count!
I'm your follower number 8000,
it is a pleasure.
Hey Papa,
Check out these monsters. They were munching down our maters. Luckily we caught them in time. Judging by the eggs on their backs, the braconid wasps were a step ahead.
Esta no es la gran foto, pero no puedo defraudar a mi Gargamel, el posó para la foto, así queyo tengo que cumplir con traerlo a la alfombra roja. jajaja
https://steemit.com/photo/@samic/gargamel
Foto de prueba
My back up entry
And here is the proof
I'm super excited to be a runner up! Thank you @papa-pepper. Congratulations to the other winners too - How lovely to have a chameleon on your hand @whistlejacket and beautiful beautiful butterfly @ellicia. :)
Thank you, @monkeygentle! I loved your entry! Congratulations on being a runner up! I was pretty excited to be one, as well! @whistlejacket, congratulations! That was such a great photo!
Congrats to you both @monkeygentle and @ellicia
Thank you, @homescoolkidz!
The bumblebee and the rose of sharon. This is my first entry. I love watching them fly in and out of every flower, and I'm hoping to capture more photos of it!
That's one well coated bee :) I often think it must be glorious to be bee sized and completely surrounded by the fantastic colours of flowers. Lovely photo.:)
Thank you! It was very coated, which is good, but I'm trying to capture one before it is covered. I saw one land on an indigo flower, before it was coated in pollen, and it was SO pretty. The contrast was amazing, but I didn't have my phone to take the photo. Lol. Maybe next time?
My second entry to the @papa-pepper challenge
Such a great shot! Love the bee flying in.
thank you!! that was lucky, the bee photobomb is my favorite part!
Thanks @papa-pepper for making me a winner. I'm truly grateful.
He didn't MAKE you a winner, your work, skill and possibly luck did that. He just recognized it and chose your winning photo!
:-D
Good point!
Great work, my friend as always, I love photography very much, seeing life through the eyes of others and sharing mine as well. Keep up the good work.
This week I have decided to get over my shyness and enter The @papa-pepper photo challenge. My 1st entry will be my plain bison shot.
This entry was close to placing! Great effort!
I haven't seen many actual animals in this contest, I love it!!!
thank you!
This is my third entry! Again, I'm having a great time with this contest. :)
You have some fabulous insects around you!
I do! It's so great. I could probably enter something every single day! I try to limit myself, but there are insects everywhere, and I have so many flowers!
I know that feeling. I take so many photos and then don't have time to look at them all and upload them!
Hahaha! As I was writing this, I saw a bee. I, of course, got down on the ground, and I was trying to take a photo of it. My husband walked outside, and saw me in stalking mode. He didn't even ask what I was doing. It has become the norm around here! Lol!
:) Can totally picture it. Same here! :)
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Great. Thanks for sharing. I'm starting to follow you.
I would love to buy a camera. I'm a training photographer but I don't have a lot of money.
what do you call a lot of money :) i see people make great pictures with mobile phones , i see people with very expansive cameras making shitty pictures , it's not the camera that makes the quality of an image it's the photographer.
Beautiful photos and congratulations to the winners
very good pic thanks for sharing my friend
Congratulations to the winners! Those were definitely some worthy shots. Will have to see if I can go hunting again this week!
Yes, please do! I'm enjoying your photos too!
congratulations to the winners !
Good contest idea and steem dollar reward big incentive.
Congratulations to the winners!
Your entry was very close. Great work once again!
Thanks. will try do better next time :)
good job
increibles fotos, felicitaciones a los ganadores ! A seguir intentadolo.
It's great, I'll see if I can send you some of the ones I recently made in Brazil, thanks for sharing with the community! Greetings.
I'm going camping this weekend and will be on the lookout for interesting critters!
natural beauty always attrect the people who wants to see creation of ALLAH
The flowers in the first photo took me back to my childhood, we had so many of them in our garden and I loved to compare the shades as they go from light to dark, not only does the butterflies like them but the bees too...ouch!
Loved the rest of the photos, looks like everyone had fun with the contest :)
thx for sharing
another week another submission :)
nobody likes to eat the raspberries so we just leave the hanging for the insects / birds
all images made with the Sony a6000 + panagor auto macro converter + Rokkor 50mm 1.7 manual focus no tripod !
its cool nature! i will set my camera now! hope to find a subject!
Entry #1: Juniper The Jumping Spider - I found it in a pine tree.
And the proof:
If you would like to see a few more shot of Juniper, check out my post about him/her; or if you're interested in meeting another, smaller species (Hentzia mitrata) and learning why jumping spiders are the most advanced family of spiders on the planet read this one.
Here is my entry. I took this at my mother in law backyard last year in Vancouver. I do not know how to proof I am the photographer but I am.
Here it is.
First, a bee flying to the purple flower.
And then the bee enters into the flower.
No editing, just photo as it is. Thanks. Rosa
Here is a 3rd entry.
Butterfly having his lunch
Spider making a kill
Here is my url post link.
https://steemit.com/photography/@rosatravels/combination-photography-contest-from-papa-pepper-week-3
What a pristinely beautiful butterfly!
Thank you. I have more but I only submitted this one.
This is my second entry. Needless to say, I lost half of a lily. Haha!
https://steemit.com/spanish/@davor27/combination-photography-contest-from-papa-pepper-week-3-my-entry
Hey @papa-pepper, I am coming in with my challenge turned into a story post! I think it's important that we get connected back to nature and that's why I love this challenge so much! Here's my entry!
I was holding onto the wall with one hand, leaning over to get close, but you can see it still above my finger! <3