7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - North American Friday week #28 - the absolute winner takes 200 SBD!

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Hello fellow Steemians!

Welcome to my 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - North American Friday - where the winner of the weekly round will be able to participate for the total of 200 SBD!

Today, you can participate by submitting your personal pictures from your travels to the continent of North America.

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Chicago skyline during sunset. Source: Shutterstock, author: Rudy Balasko

Your entries need to be submitted by 8 AM Central European Time in order to be considered for the challenge with a description of approximately 30 to 50 words. Only use of personal images will be accepted and only one picture can be submitted for a daily photo challenge. Ten winning photos will receive a bigger upvote from me and ten runners-up will get a smaller one.

Chosen from the ten winning entries, the absolute winner of the day will receive extended publicity in my post tomorrow morning. I will also visit his/her blog to upvote one of the most recent posts. The winning picture of the daily challenge will then automatically enter other rounds with the absolute winner gaining approximately 200 SBD in total.

Please see the winners of the previous contests of the week and give them your support if you like their images to be the one winning the weekly price and entering the other stages of the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge. You can vote for them by upvoting their winner announcement posts below:

7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Asian Sunday week #28 – winner announcement!

@funtraveller Asian Sunday entry:

Hello @czechglobalhosts! This is the view of Marina Bay area in Singapore, a photo that I took while there's an incoming storm / heavy rain along my way. It's an uncommon scene and this serves as my entry to the Asian Sunday photo challenge.

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7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Australian Monday week #28 – winner announcement!

@benfenson Australian Monday entry:

This is Kiama lighthouse on the NSW, Southcoast, taken during a violent thunderstorm at the start of this years storm season. My partner and i had originally walked out to the tip of the headland to photograph the storm coming in from the West but the storm was moving so quickly that by the time we had setup, bolts of lightning were exploding all around us prompting us to head for cover. Just before making it back to the car the wind and rain hit luckily my camera gear stayed dry!.... I didn't ;)

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7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – Tuesday of Antarctica and World´s Oceans week #28 – winner announcement!

@axeman Tuesday of Antarctica and World´s Oceans entry:

Sunset Baltic Sea coast, nearby Klaipeda, Lithuania. A big stone as center of a composition and long exposure to freeze the movement of the wave. The most difficult part is actually to stay with dry shoes :) Every time sea just tries to catch me, but have enough experience so far to predict bigger waves. Enjoy it!

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7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – African Wednesday week #28 – winner announcement!

@photofreediver African Wednesday entry:

I have no doubt that Sudan is one of the best places in the World for diving. Always warm Red Sea, an abundance of colorful corals and tropical fish make every dive striking and unforgettable. It's a place where every instant of water under water you want to leave in your memory and on the photographers, of course!

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7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – European Thursday week #28 – winner announcement!

@softa European Thursday entry:

Prague, Charles bridge. Charles bridge is one of the most visited monuments in Prague. One day when I set off to take pictures of the city center I noticed that the waterworks beneath the bridge are in the lower position. So I headed to the bridge where they were to see stones on the waterfront, which is not commonly seen.

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For more information about the 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge and conditions see my original post: 200 SBD 7 World's Continents Photo Challenge - 2018 guidelines: 22/1 update


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Tomas
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles is one of the crown jewels of the city and serves as home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. It was designed by famed architect Frank Gehry and opened in 2003 to wide acclaim. But the building also brought some controversy. Some of the panels of this incredibly reflective building were heating up nearby condominiums and sidewalks to an unbearable degree. They found the offending panels and sanded them down to a matte finish.
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What a great capture. Thank you for sharing with everyone!

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Sometimes you just have to stop, catch your breath, and mumble wow. Standing on a set of snowshoes in the middle of a very frozen Maligne Lake is one of those moments. Its hard to convey the ruggedness and inhospitably of winter in the Canadian Rockies though a photo. I think this shot is the closest I have come to that.

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

What a fabulous entry! Thank you so much for your participation. Tomas


Moving the Rock


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CategoryNorth America
Settingsf/4 @ 1/640
CameraOlympus C8080Z
Lens25 mm
LocationEnchanted Rock, Texas

This was taken at Enchanted Rock near Austin, Texas. He is a large granite upwelling that was underground at one time but due to erosion that took millions of years, it came to the surface. It is a great deal of fun to climb.

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Wonders of nature. I would love to see you move that rock though:)

Here is a night time view of Chicago taken from the Hancock Center. You aren't allowed to take a tripod so I took a clamp up and clamped my camera to a rail to get the long exposure. I was kind of nervous to try it but nobody said anything.

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Wow, epic photo. What a view... absolutely worth a little nervousness. ;)

Thanks! I almost chickened out. Glad I didn't.

What a view and colors! Thank you for this amazing image!

I always loved the view from up there. If you don't mind me asking, did you use any sort of lens filter on your camera?

I don't actually remember if I used a filter. I may have used my polarizing filter to try to remove some of the glare from the window. I did have the lens pressed right up against the glass and even doing that I still had to remove some reflections in the sky.

Gotcha, makes sense. Thank you

Mirror Reflection

Cathedral Rock looks amazing, especially on a day like this when the quality of light is so perfect. Showing off a fine mirror reflection with a beautiful partly cloudy blue sky to compliment the scene. This is what Sedona Arizona USA visitors, come here to see.

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I just love your pics from Arizona, it just reminds me how beautiful it is!

Well Thanks I appreciate that!

Very striking stratigraphy that tells an epic story. That's awesome that you were able to find some water for a reflection picture. It's crazy to think that millions of years ago all of Arizona was underwater! Great job 👌

Yes there is a colorful geological history and some of the red rock dates back to 360 million years. Thanks for the comment.

This was taken after a long day exploring Soda Springs, one of man weird areas of Idaho! Tons of geothermal activity in the area so when we heard about this hot spring pool we had to go. And relaxing it was, we got a bunch of happy toes after a big day of walking :)

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Haha, classic and unique photo. Love the mood. ;)

That is a real relaxation!

I wish I could transfer us back whenever we need to. I could need an hour in that hot spring right now.

The University of Chicago... goes my many other names... some know it as "Where fun goes to die", others as "Where Hell freezes over". This picture sums up my experience getting my masters in statistics there. I call it.... "The gates of Hell"

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Haha, love the story... I assume the masters was ok, it is normally the first degree that mades you sweat? ;)

yes I made it through alright. Definitely sweat a lot more during my masters though

LOL, great entry... It does look really spooky!

If you have checked any of my recent posts you probably already know that I am off to Vegas next week. I am excited to go there again, so I am sharing my favorite photo from my first Vegas trip! It is night long exposure. I see this photo as stereotypical for American cityscape…

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Have fun and do not gamble too much! Take pictures instead:)...

Nice picture Andy, the neon orange and yellow colors really give it that vegas feel. As someone who is still learning long exposure techniques, I was wondering, did you use an ND filter at all when taking this picture?

Sunrise clouds over the Rocky Mountains. Waking up early for sunrise photography was a new experience for me during this trip, but one that left me with no doubt that I would do it all over again. The light is simply magic, turning the landscape into something like out of a fairytale.
Location: Rocky Mountains National Park.
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What a beautiful shot! Thank you so much for sharing. Tomas

Here is one of the most recognizable cityscapes in the world. Of course it is Manhattan! I took this picture from a famous view point of Empire State Building. It was a cloudy October day and I waited a bit for a sun to lit a part of the center Manhattan. That cloudy sky and uneven lightning added to the perception of depth and space.

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What a place, what a city! Thank you for your entry. Tomas