RE: PHOTOCHAIN Challenge TESTNET - Edition number 156 [ENG | ITA]
Here's my entry for this week @davidesimoncini.
These are "red candle plants" most commonly referred to as Costus Woodsonii. According to Google this plant is widely known as Red Button Ginger or Panama Candle Plant. Its distinctive, bright red, cone-shaped bracts give the appearance of a lit wax candle. On the day I took this picture a Garden Sunbird happened to be feeding on the plant, apparently delighting in its succulent nectar. So engrossed with feeding, it did not notice how close I was. Lucky for me 😁
My Personal Keyword is Bird.
THREE / RED / BIRD
Good luck everyone. Do you have another great photo this time with Red and Three @quotes-haven? Looking forward to your entries @solperez @wakeupkitty.pal @suryati1 @dim753 @gertu and @blessedlife and @soulfuldreamer.
La foto es preciosa. La flor se parece a una que hay en Venezuela que la llaman "micrófono". Precisamente, porque se parece a este dispositivo. Veré si puedo tomarle una foto, pues siempre las venden en el mercado. El colibrí se ve precioso. No es fácil fotografiar a un pájaro.
Yo también la he visto. Donde vive mi mejor amiga las hay, de hecho creo que siempre tiene flores. No tenía idea de que la llamaran así.
It seems to be a common plant except probably in Europe and North America. @wakeupkitty.pal has never seen or heard of this plant. 🤔
Yes, I noticed she said that. It's understandable for me, it's a tropical plant. Probably its flowers are not comercialized in Europe.
Thank you @solperez. Now that you mentioned it, it does resemble a microphone as well. I would like to see your photo of it. That would be interesting.
I had to walk very slowly towards the sunbird, praying that it wouldn't fly away before I got a picture. Luckily, I already got a couple of shots before it realized I was so close to it. He flew away immediately but I got what I wanted. The three red candle plants just happened to be in the photo with the bird. Which is just perfect for this week 😁
Definitivamente, la suerte te acompaña, jajaja. Un abrazo para el nieto.
Yes, I will give him a big hug from you. He likes being a part of PhotoChain and often looks at the entries and evaluates them according to his tastes hehehe. 😁
Genial! Confío en su "criterio" para escoger las mejores fotografías.
Great photo! You've set a high standard for everyone participating in the contest.
I wish you luck, I really like your photo; it's very clever, by the way.
Thank you @dim753. Those are very inspiring words. BUT, I think I can say the same about you as well. Your ingenious ways of presenting the keywords do not fail to make me smile and shake my head with admiration. I always enjoy your entries 👍
Widely known is an overstatement I never heard of this plant. I must live in the wrong )Google) region.
Great you added some info to your photo. It makes a comment so much better.
Congrats you won last time and so did @quotes-haven. 👍
This booming vote is yours and well deserved.
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Now, where exactly is it that you come from? Maybe Google made an exception of your place 🤣
Oh I always make a point to add some info on my entries, except for that one time I forgot to do so in my excitement 😁. Anyway, I forgot to mention the plants were inconsequential as I was so intent on capturing the bird before it flew. It was only during this week with the word Three, (your keyword by the way) that I realized there were 3 red flowers on the photo as well. 😊 Now how lucky is that?
Actually it was @hafsasaadat90 who won honorable mention with @quotes-haven not me.
Thanks for this. A very unexpected surprise, but a really pleasant one 😁 Does this act same like the SC01 and True Colors nomination the last time? Just excited to see what the booming vote looks like 🤔
I already thought: who came up with 3, LOL, it was me.
Strange I didn't notice you didn't winm well you can this time.
Who more can we ask? Is @ibesso already back?
Perhaps @marblely likes photos too? If not she can chat with us.
@suryati1 how about you? Do you have a photo with three items (or the number 3 on it) and something red?
@surinadewi and @waihin how about you?
The booming voters do have an account they vote with, they only have more SP, so you receive more unless the booming curator is greedy.
I assume a booming vote is to stimulate and reward. Since True Colours is a theme (art and artists) curator team we mainly search and vote the creative ones, the comments included.
The Steemit Team says they want a change, better posts, more variety and more comments.
If and how that works out I cannot tell, but today it felt that test already failed.
There are also teams who should stimulate commenting and improvers (ignoring community rules) preaching the old rules how to make the post better killing creativity.
On the other hand the value of Steem is nearly zero and most likely the creative ones will stay and go for the fun.
Yes Kitty, @ibesso is back! 😄 And since you called me out… I guess I can’t escape the 3 this time. Let me think… 🔴 🔴 🔴
Where's the picture? You took long!
😂 Hey, finding the right three takes time!
Ooo thanks for ‘calling’ me hehe. I saw this post and was interested to join but wasn’t sure how because I couldn’t really grasp the contest rules clearly. But now seeing the participation photos here, I get it now.
I’ve seen this flower around @gem.and.cookies. And they are called candle flower? Wow never knew. Thanks for letting me know! Nice shot with the birdy. They fly away too fast sometimes and you caught it in that moment. Good luckk! I’ll try to find something to capture, though can’t think of any right now.
Hi @marblely. Let me welcome you to PhotoChain Challenge. It is such a joy for me to see people like you showing interest in joining. It really can get confusing at first, I mean the rules and regulations, but once you get it, it really gets to be super fun and challenging. And you did the very thing that I did when I started out with PhotoChain years ago. I looked at the participation photos and there I understood what it is all about. I do hope you get to find sonething and join us this week. I look forward to it. ☺️
This flower is common here in our place. And they are quite sturdy. They are perennial plants so they're quite difficult to get rid off just like Birds of Paradise plants. So there's a whole bunch of these candle plants in front of our house and who would have thought this particular bird is very partial to its nectar. So everyday they are always there feeding. And everytime I see them I try to picture them. Would you believe there are more failed photos that I had to delete precisely because they fly away too fast 😮💨
Finally, to inspire you perhaps the photo below can help?
The moment is ripe.
Oh wow photo chain has been around for quite a long while. Nice that you have the bird visiting everyday. Does the bird sing? I had a bird visiting my chili plants once at the 17th floor and it was singing so sweetly. Missed that fella.
Hehe I have joined. Yesterday was a hunt day and yes I found one below similar category to yours hehe. In this case, can the personal keyword be juicy?
There you go ..3 (my personal prompt of last week) and red the other winner's personal prompt.
So now I ask you: What is your personal prompt?
It must be something we can see on your photo like for example
Seeds
Green
Fruits
Shadow
White
10%
Wood
Dark
Or whatever youake up.
You should add it to your photo.
Good luck!
By the way, this is a good place to have fun and chat.
I give up. 10%. Is this really in the photo? I can't find it. Dark is original and I wouldn't have thought about it. But it's there. But 10%? Where oh where? You got me 🤔🤔🤔
Hope you're having fun @marblely. ☺️
Aaa means anything we can see in the photo. Hmm maybe should have put grass or something else, other than the obvious bricks in my actual entry. Hehe. So, that is how it works.. so creative you all! No wonder it is called photochain.
Watermelon is one of all fruits that full of water is benefit uncountable we love to eat in hot days it is very refreshing and good for health I like your post
I love juicy sweet watermelon. So refreshing to eat. Thank you @hafsasaadat90 🫶🏻
Yes, PhotoChain is already an old-timer here. We are actually in Edition 156 which makes it almost 3 years. I never missed a single Edition. That's how I am with this Challenge. Like a barnacle, so to speak 😂
Anyway, the Sunbird does not sing. But it does make a distinctive sound like an inverted whistle where you suck the air in while whistling instead of blowing the air out. That's how I know they're around and I start to sneak up on them lol.
Your bird visitor could have been a hummingbird. They actually sing and make sweet sounds. Too bad it went away.
The photo, if this is your entry, is just exactly what the Challenge is requiring this week. Looking at this, I am super curious how you manage this shot, in the supermarket at that! 3 red ripe watermelons definitely beat my 3 red apples. And yes, Juicy is acceptable as your personal keyword! That would be fun to see how people are going to show Juicy with the other keyword. Let's see. My personal keyword is Bird. If we both win it's going to be Bird and Juicy. Showing both will be really challenging, don't you think so? @wakeupkitty's personal keyword is Academy. If you both win, Juicy and Academy will even be harder to show. This gets exciting everyday. Are you up to it? 😁
But I just checked and saw you entered a much more intriguing and fantastic photo. Definitely more awesome than these watermelons and, to my relief, a much easier personal keyword Bricks. I think that's a masterclass photo. You're a PhotoChain natural, if you ask me. Thank you for taking the time to join and hopefully you become a mainstay here as well. Your photos are quite good 👏👏👏
Oooo is that how it works? The next round will take the winners' keywords. Oh gosh.. better not be bird and juicy or juicy and academy, that will be hard!
Ah the bird, I actually took a video of it. Need to find it. Not sure if it looked like a hummingbird though. Thank you for sharing :)
The three watermelons were just sitting there on top of the ice rack, as though waiting for me to take a shot because after I was done at the grocer, on my way out, it became two!
Aww thank you for your kind words. It was a real coincidence to find those 3 structures. Didn't realise they were there before. But this was really fun. Hahah. Thank you @gems.and.cookies hehe.
Pity...a juicy rice field could have been fun...
I could hunt for juicy guy or... A steak
This BOOMING vote is yours and well deserved!
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This never fails to make me feel so good 🤗 Thanks for the support and the encouragement. Very very much appreciated ♥️
I am happy to hear that. Enjoy your day/evening and the commenting.
Your flowers and the birdy are more special. By the way you forgot to mention she should add her personal prompt!
Great phrase underneath this photo 😁
Thanks for the nice words. That photo, if it were like a movie scene, needed at least 25 takes. I don't have a super camera with all those gizmos and whatnots. I only use my cell phone's camera. 🥵
Juicy and appetizing fruit we love to eat apples because these are healthy and full of iron it is very beneficial for us it's peels are very important for our hairs health
Aku sudah hadir dan menunjukkan foto ku, aku juga tidak yakin akan menang kali ini, sebab teman-teman kita memiliki foto-foto yang sangat luar biasa, namun aku juga tidak mau kalah dan menunjukkan foto terbaikku, soal kalah menang itu biasa yang penting kita bisa bersenang-senang,
Jika menang berarti itu suatu keberuntungan,
That's why we wish each other good luck everytime. Every picture has its own beauty and appeal and it will be different every week. For me, the more others win, the better the Challenge becomes ☺️
Not only that, the comments and replies here are super!
Thanks to you the engagement in this Challenge has become what it is now. It was kind of slow and quiet before you suddenly appeared and invited your friends. Although some have long been gone like @xiao-aine and @henryclive and @olivia08, some have stayed on and have invited their friends as well. Good job 👍
Tentu saja sangat seru karena selalu ada tantangannya di setiap minggunya
Aku juga berpikir begitu, dan sebenarnya seru juga kan mencari sesuatu yang cocok dengan kedua kata itu? Menurutku, ini kompetisi yang sangat seru
Benar temanku aku juga sangat suka dengan kontes ini karena tantangannya yang membuat semua jadi seru
Foto yang sangat bagus sekali, saya suka dengan burungnya yang sedang menikmati nektar
Thank you. That makes the two of us. I always am on the lookout for Sunbirds visiting these candle plants because I noticed they have a preference for these plants. I have some other photos of them feeding which I enjoy looking at. I hope I can share them one of these days in another post ☺️
Itu sangat bagus sekali temanku, dan aku akan menunggu postingan selanjutnya tentang burung yang suka dengan tanaman lilin
I do hope I find the time. I will definitely tag you once it is out ☺️
Oke, aku akan menunggunya dan terimakasih selalu mengingat ku 🙏
What a lucky shot, I love when a bird is photographed and doesn't fly away.
I have seen that flower here in Venezuela, beautiful.
Yes, that was a lucky shot. You can say that again. There actually so many more photos I took but had to delete because the bird flew much quickly before I can take a shot. 😥
Happy to discover a new specimen. Thank you for joining and welcome to the edition. A big good luck, as usual :)
This BOOMING vote is yours and well deserved!
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