Chromium's Butterfly/Insect Day Steem Giveaway - 200 STEEM up for grabs !!!!

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Hello everyone and welcome to Butterfly/ Insect Day

This week old Chromium is celebrating. My Reputation hit 60 and I'm going to be a Dolphin in the next couple of hours.... O.o

So in celebration and since @whatisnew is on vacation this week I've decided to give away some STEEM

200 STEEM is up for grabs this week so grab your best Butterfly/Insect Photos and Artwork and enter for a chance to win

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Just drop your best Butterfly/Insect, Photo/Art into the comment section and your entered.
Easy.
No Follow,Upvote or ReSteems required but appreciated =)

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Photos and Artwork judged and awarded separately. =p
1st Place - 50 STEEM
2nd Place - 25 STEEM
3rd Place - 10 STEEM
Mentions(3 or more) - 5 STEEM

Please Note : All photos/ artwork must be original by you, plagiarized work will be disqualified and reported.

Winners published and paid out on Thursday, December 5th
Good Luck Everyone !!!!

Would also like to thank everyone for your support and encouragement over the last couple months it was very much appreciated !!!!

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Flower for the Ladies ;)

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Congratulations @chromiumone!
You raised your level and are now a Dolphin!

Thanks for visiting my post. If you enjoyed it please consider upvoting and following

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This is definitely one of my best and favorite insect macro photos I have ever taken.
It is of a Flower Fly gathering nectar from a Prairie Fleabane flower. I took this in late June of this year.

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Nice shot ! We have a strong first entry.
Good luck !!
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Happy to participate and thank you very much! :) I will try to promote and get the word out about your very generous contest. Also congrats on becoming a dolphin!

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Congratulations @chromiumone!
You raised your level and are now a Dolphin!

You can upvote this notification to help all Steem users. Learn how here!

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My congratulations @chromiumone ! I did not see any restrictions; the collage consists of photographs that I took at different times of the year and in different countries.

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Hello @barski your are correct no restrictions other than no plagiarism and one entry per person.
Nice shot BTW =)
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Congratulations on hitting the big 60!! It takes forever to get there and then it slows down from there!

What a lovely way to celebrate! Thank you for the flower! They are gorgeous! Happy December!

I am excited about your contest! Here is my entry! It is a Hummingbird Moth. When I first saw it, I thought it was a hummingbird, until I looked closer!

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Congratulations on reaching rep 60 and becoming a dolphin! Well done! @chromiumone👏
It was very kind of you to host a giveaway while @whatisnew is is on vacation. Good luck, everyone!
This is a favorite photo of mine -- a carpenter bee busily collecting pollen from a cluster of Rose of Sharon flowers in my backyard. Hope you enjoy it too! #savethebees

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Very nice shot @ninahaskin thanks for the entry.
Noticed #savethebees thanks ! Bees are in trouble world wide(honey bees in particular) and getting worse. Thanks for caring.
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Appreciate the compliment and thank you for the DERANGED! @chromiumone

I don't think many people realize the significant contributions bees play as pollinators in the ecosystem. They are the stitching that holds everything together. I heard on a nature show that if bees entirely disappeared from earth, mankind would only have four years left to live. We need to proactively save the bees before it's too late! 🐝

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Congratulations @chromiumone on becoming a Dolphin!! I hope you are feeling better?! I just love that photo of the Skipper and that is one gorgeous flower you posted for me! 😉
This is my photo of another Red-Spotted Purple. Taken at a different locale than the last one I posted about. 😊

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Nice shot @deerjay
I wish I was better..... getting worse and trying to go to pneumonia =/
Good to see your entry.
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Thank you @chromiumone! I'm sorry to hear that and I hope it doesn't go that far. Don't let it get too far without seeing a doctor, if you haven't seen one already. Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery! 🙏

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Hi,
I've been following this contest every week and love @whatisnew, but I'm not a photographer, nor am I an artist. I've never had the courage to actually enter. However, I have been tempted. Today I found a picture at this Harvard.edu site. The butterfly,
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looked like something I could try to approximate. So I began drawing, chalking and digitalizing.

First I sketched a butterfly, then tried to fill in color with chalk.
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I scanned that image into my computer.

After that, I spent a lot of time (I'm retired he he) blending, coloring, comparing, resizing. Finally I came up with something I liked, although it only vaguely resembled Heliconius xanthocles.

This picture represents my entry into your contest:

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I wasn't going to post this in a blog, because I was a little embarrassed by the poor skill level. However, when I saw that you invited us to drop our entry as a comment, I figured, why not?

Thanks so much for running this contest. My alternate blog was about a rather unpleasant disease (which I will return to). This was a lovely break.

Congratulations on your '60' and your 'dolphin' status!

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You are so creative! You should name this beautiful, one-of-a kind butterfly "The Agmoore." : ) I love it and love you too! : )

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Hello, dear friend @whatisnew,
Thank you. This butterfly is one of a kind :)) You can see I had great fun playing with chalk and the computer. All to get my imprecise, but rather attractive (I think😁) creature.

I love your bee in flight. How do you capture these images? And I love that you can identify everything you photograph!
Have a most wonderful, richly creative day.

Your not-very-talented, but enthusiastic friend,
AG

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What? You ooze with talent AG!

Capturing anything in flight takes many, many photos to hopefully just get one that is not a total blur.

Keep the enthusiasm going, my friend. : )

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Wow! You sure do know how to celebrate! Congratulations on all 3 of your big milestones @chromiumone. Of course I must enter this one but it sure feels weird entering an insect in another persons drawing. LOL!
Here is a carpenter bee in flight.

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Hello @whatisnew you made it !!
Glad to see an entry from you. Thanks for helping me celebrate.
Although getting the flu the next day kinda dampened my enthusiasm a bit lol
Now comes the hard part.... choosing from all the great photos here.....
That's a nice in flight capture you got there, I never get one that clear.

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Thanks Bud! I hope you are feeling much better now.
You did get some amazing entries. Picking the winners would be so hard for me and that is why I choose at random. No pressure. : )
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Hello.. I just found this post today.. hope be on time...

I want post this See true wings Butterfly Hope you like it!! It is from my back yard and use my phone to take a photo...
Thank you and Congratulations

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