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Photo Challenge
The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user. |
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Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images.
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Challenges open for submission
2023 – November – Bicycle
The new challenge features bicycles and other cycles.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout November UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. November 2023 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
This challenge has already ended. (refresh)
Examples
Entries
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Signs of a car-centric city
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A bicycle ready for going home from the market
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Rental bicycles in Paris
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Rental bicycles in Paris
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Lego Bike
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Bicycle path No14
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Bicycle No13
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Secured bike
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Bicycle in the parking lot
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Bicycles stored on garage wall.
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Bicycles stored on garage wall.
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Bicycles stored on garage wall.
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Bicycles stored on garage wall.
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Брошенный велосипед
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Уличный держатель для велосипедов
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Bicycle in Clermont-Ferrand
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Shared bikes in Prague, Czech Republic
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Shared bikes in Prague, Czech Republic
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Break during a bike ride along the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City.
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Cyclists on the former Canadian National Railway line, called “Corridor des Cheminots”.
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A ticket for bicycles for the ferry boat across the St. Lawrence River in Canada
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Bicycle parking lot near the waterfalls "Les Chutes-Montmorency" in Canada.
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Shared bikes at the Prague Exhibition Center, Czech Republic
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Shared bikes at the Prague Exhibition Center, Czech Republic
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A youngster with a tricycle as a living on a street corner at Manila, Philippines.
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Reflections in a pond, Milan, Italy, 2023
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A tricycle that gets heavily overloaded, Palawan, Puerto Princesa City in the Philippines.
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Bicycle in the parking lot?
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A child on a bicycle walk
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Bicycle and pedestrian path
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Poland_Lublin bicycle
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2 bicycles on a Berlin Bridge with the city skyline in the background
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A tricycle that gets heavily overloaded, Palawan, Puerto Princesa City in the Philippines.
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An upward view of a bicycle, with the sun, sky, and telephone poles behind it. Henrico County, Virginia.
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Il Giro d'Italia a Verona
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Il gruppo affronta la salita
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Bicycle from upper angle
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Bicycle at dusk
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Bicycle and the stop sign
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2 men dragging their bikes at Viñales (Cuba)
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Bicyclette de 1915 avec roues à ressort (Bonneval, France)
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Bicyclette dans un mur (Montpellier, France)
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Bicycle spotted on the street of Vilnius old town (Lithuania).
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Bike café in Warsaw, Poland
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Toy cycle with shadow
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Bicycles decoration on the wall
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Bike Travel in Shirak region of Armenia.
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Fahrrad abgestellt - lost bycicle
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This girl works as a child labourer until late at night, Manila, Philippines
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Bicycle performance in Macau
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Bicycle rider waiting to cross the road in Japan
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Bicycle parking in front of a green gate
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Bicycles at their parking space
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Cabourg France)
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Sitting men and bicycles.
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7-person trike "Teambike"
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Sunset at Gouville-sur-mer Normandie France
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Velomobile
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Umhäkeltes Fahhrad
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Dat Rad is in Mors
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Bemoostes Fahrrad
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Mountain biker on the North side of the Mortice
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Mountain biker next to the Brec de Chambeyron
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Mountain biker under the cross of the grand Glaiza
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Mountain biker in front of the Meije at sunset
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Vamos hoje para a praia de bicicleta?
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Bike among towering trees in Stanley Park Vancouver, May 2018
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Indianapolis Pacers Bikeshare Program bikes at docking station, August 2018
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From sea ?
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Alone in Place de la Concorde (Paris)
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Four-person family bike in Amsterdam
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Bicycle with large carry capacity in Taiwan
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Bicycles parked outside the temple at Burning Man
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Funny stickers on a warning road sign in France
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Bicycle sign in Den Gamle By, Aarhus, Denmark
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Bicycle sculpture at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
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Rear wheel of a blue bike behind wall, Cremona, Italy
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Fake bike accident, Kasseedorf, Germany
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Bikes leaning on previous night's dwelling
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Bike and noctilucent clouds, in a dark forest
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Unzulässige Entsorgung.
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Marke Eigenbau.
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Bicycle Rack, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
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A farmer riding an old bicycle, Kebumen, Indonesia.
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Students in scouts uniform riding their bikes to school, Kebumen, Indonesia.
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Pilgrims Cycle at Tamil Nadu in India.
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buisness cycle at Tamilnadu,India.
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Old abandoned bicycle foùnd at Tamilnadu, India.
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Bicycle on street
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A man riding an electric bicycle
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giro d'Italia foto scattata durante giro d'Italia localita Ponzate di Tavernerio (CO) Italia
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Photo taken during the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, Maryland, USA organized by the American Visionary Art Museum
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Photo taken during the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, Maryland, USA organized by the American Visionary Art Museum
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Photo taken during the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, Maryland, USA organized by the American Visionary Art Museum
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Photo taken during the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, Maryland, USA organized by the American Visionary Art Museum
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Bike fished out of the river, Munich, Germany
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Bike with flower pots, Arco, Italy
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BMX rider at a skatepark in New Zealand
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Bicycle flowerpot in Prvić Luka, Croatia
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Bicycle flowerpot in Prvić Luka, Croatia
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Bicycle Sink
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Directions Pole and Bike at Head of the Charles rowing race on the Charles River
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Biker on Fiedler Dock of Charles River Esplanade at sunset
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Yellow bicycle at the edge of one of Sylt's heathlands
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An exhausted kid with an oversized, old bicycle
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Tag der Sachsen 2023 in Aue 2H1A6288WI
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Front logo of an NSU-bike from the 1940th
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Decorated women's bike of a farm shop near Oevenum on Föhr
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Bicycle as a sign for a pancake restaurant in Santanyí
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Bicycle as waste within the meaning of the German Waste Management and Product Recycling Act
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Children's bicycles in a school playground
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domestic rabbit with bicycle wheel
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Discarded bicycle
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Lone bicycle wheel
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Bicicletta decorativa sotto a una finestra a Capoliveri (Isola d'Elba)
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Christmas decor in an Irish Pub in West Palm FL
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Bicycle protest
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Bicycle protest
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aspettando il tramonto tra fidanzati
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Sun bike
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Bicycle in a tree in Crete
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Cycle Track, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Snow-covered bicycle in Berlin
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Una bicicletta alla partita di cricket al Parco di Villa Doria Pamphilj a Roma
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Un vélo miniature qui semble rouler sur la mer.
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Un vélo sur un pont au dessus des bouchons
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Bicycle in Hannover: Consideration gives us space
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Checking Mellat park in Tehran,Iran
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Moustache electric bike with the kiosk of the emperor in bois de Boulogne, Paris
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German bicycle (VSF T-700) with the château of Sceaux in the background
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Two bicycles on a former train track in West of France
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Bicycle on the Debilly footbridge and the Eiffel Tower
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Memorial for a fallen cyclist
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Bicyclettes rangées le long d'un mur dans une cour d'école élémentaire
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Vélo sur chemin recouvert de feuilles d'automne
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Vélo devant un arbre tortueux dans la forêt
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Vélo dans les herbes hautes
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vélo devant des rochers sur lesquels une citrouille d'Halloween est posée
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A Bergamont Grandurance gravel bike at the top of the Puech des Mourgues, Southern France
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A touring bike standing on the fire road next to the city of Montaud (34), France
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An e-bike on a gravel track at the Les Saisies station, in the French Alps
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A purple gravel bile next to a tree with yellow, red and orange leaves
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two bicycles in foggy Berlin
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Bicycle parking strictly prohibited to save the planet
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Large-scale transportation by bicycle in Saigon, Vietnam
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Rental bikes in Paris
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Dabbawala bicycle in Mumbai, India
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Snow-covered bicycle on Schleusenbrücke at Alsterfleet, Hamburg
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Bicycle repair shop in Nizhny Novgorod
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Le Havre (France)
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Grand Départ in Bruxelles
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bicycle bells
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Defective cargo bike parked in a subway in Beijing
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Ausstellungsstück (Detail) im Verkehrsmuseum Dresden IMG 7445WI
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Ghost bike in memory a cyclist killed in Wimereux
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Cycle spare parts
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Fruit vendor at the street
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Tiny Bicycle
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Orange bicycle at lake side
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Hudson River Park. Morning bicycle walk along the Hudson River embankment
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New York Marathon
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Parking. Citibikes
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Музейный экспонат
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A picture of a Canal with a retro style bicycle in Amsterdam in the foreground, The Netherlands, 2012
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Cycling a little uphill in the city center of the irish capital towards Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, 2012
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Working bike at the Hydropower Museum in Sapporo
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Cycling in Italy clos to mountains in Marche region
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Fahrrad im Garten in Niederwürschnitz, Sachsen 2H1A8921WI
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Through the flooded street on a bicycle
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Countless bicycles parked outside of Kaneshie Market Complex in Accra, Ghana. Some of them are even hanging from a tall wall.
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A bicycle on a Swiss apple farm. The back of the bicycle has a metal container for milk which will be filled at a nearby dairy farm. Cats wait for the bicycle to return with fresh milk.
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A man in Mumbai is sitting on the cargo mount of his parked bicycle while eating lunch and looking at the Oval Maidan cricket field.
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Am Rande eines Mohnfeldes 2H1A0271WI
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Perfekte Täuschung
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In riposo alla fontana della piazzetta di Casale Celsano a Santa Maria di Galeria
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Bicycle on a grid in Beijing
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Una bicicletta Bianchi alla 'Biblioteca della bicicletta Lucos Cozza' a Trevignano Romano
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Tourenrad auf dem Inntal-Radweg im Val Mela
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Bird dealer on bicycle, New Delhi, 1989
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Tour de France 2020, 2020
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Cars in Tour de France 2020
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Cars in Tour de France 2020
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Bicycle helihoisting
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Bicycles in the Center of Copenhagen
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A sumo wrestler on a bicycle in Japan
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Bicycle parking, Japan
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touch down
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Breakway in Spandelles during La Vuelta 2023
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Passo Pordoi, Italy
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Silvia Persico and Esmée Peperkamp in Tourmalet during TDFF 2023
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Cat sitting beneath a bicycle, beside an anchor
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Parked bicycle covered in snow
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Ariana Gilabert, pro cyclist, TCFIA 2023.
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Épave de vélo dans la forêt de Séglien - Morbihan - France
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A man in London cycles on a Barclay-sponsored "Boris Bike" across Waterloo Bridge with the London Eye, Big Ben, and sunset in the background.
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Hällisch-Fränkisches-Meseum, 74523 Schwäbisch Hall, Germny
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Bicleta com flores na Floricultura Florarte, Barão Geraldo, Campinas, SP, Brasil, 2011
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Homem trabalhando com amolador de facas adaptado para bicicleta em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 2023
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Bicicletário em Skyglass, Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 2022
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Bicicleta na mata em Vila Flores, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 2022
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On the road
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Bicycle near the wall
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Старий кінь, борозни не спортить.
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Mont Ventoux dénivelé challenge cycling race 2019
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Bike stand (Stojan na bicykle)
2023 – November – Too many to count
The new challenge features too many to count.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout November UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. November 2023 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
This challenge has already ended. (refresh)
Examples
Entries
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A pile of mussels on the beach
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Resistors and capacitors on a stack of circuit boards, spare parts for a relay interlocking system
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Countless number of mussels on the beach, Baltic Sea, Rerik
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Endless rows of power poles on the electrified humpyrd
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Cracked dry soil in submerged village of Aceredo
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Wheat field, Czech Republic
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Sempervivum tectorum on a grave, Prague, Czech Republic
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White birch grove, Czech Republic
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Taxodium distichum in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris.
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Rental bicycles in Paris
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Dense forest near Lagoa do Canário
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Tourist visiting the submerged village Aceredo during early 2022's drought in northern Portugal and Spain
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Autumn leaves in Lyon
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Fallen leaves in Lyon
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Raindrops no13
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Raindrops on the glass
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Walnut tree - branches
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"Cat's Heads"
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Скошенное поле 5
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Скошенное поле 6
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Выпас стада овец на скошенном поле
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Участок для гребного слалома
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Countless Salicornia Salicornia plants between ever-changing cracks in a changing salt marsh area.
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Nature in the foreground as a refugee looking back to its former home
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Countless Plastic balls on double miror image
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One of the largest Northern Gannet colonies on Bonaventure Island National Park, Canada
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Countless stings of cactus "Trichocereus rubinghiana" on Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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Countless villages on Gran Canaria island, seen from an airplane
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Countless torn hills in a daily changing salt marsh area
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Housing in 6th district of Marseille city, looking north-east direction
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Windows in a skyscraper
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Trees in the snow
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Red leaves
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Dandelion No. 15
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Countless footprints of water birds in a unique salt marsh area that changes constantly due to the ebb and flow of the tide
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Get lost among the spring flowers in the Hortus in Haren
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A squirrel is eating countless Areca nuts, Tamilnadu, India
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Asphalt road grainy and many chironomids with a little ruderal species
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Chinese garden The Hidden Kingdom of Ming in Hortus Haren. Mosaic decoration.
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Lápidas en el Cementerio Municipal de Los Teques (Venezuela)
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Ranchos en Petare (Caracas, Venezuela)
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Distese di fiori di Romulea bulbocodium ai Giardini di Villa Borghese, Roma
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Vierhouterbos. We can no longer see the forest for the trees.
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Window frost
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romanesco-Röschen - brocoflower
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unzählige Distelsamen - countless seed of thistel
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Too many bright sources of dazzles to count
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Santons de Provence à Marseille
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A coin collection, featuring coins loose and in various storage mediums.
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Oasis at Cooktown, Mulligan Hwy - State Route 40, Queensland, AU.
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Row of motorcycles in the dusky time. Lombok, Indonesia
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The parrots flock in May around the abundantly flowering Eucalyptus trees. Darwin, Northern Territory, AU.
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Oasis in the semidesert at Cooktown, Mulligan Hwy - State Route 40, Queensland, AU
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Hands and camera at Macau Grand Prix
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Laying red bricks
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Wall full of books
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A blooming lotus in a park
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Fugler og hus i Osterfjorden
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A utility pole crowded with wires
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Armoire à pharmacie.jpg
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How many birds? (Brittany)
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Fragaria vesca L. (fraisier) au jardin des Plantes, à Paris.
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Over 31,000 skulls (assumed) in the Ossuary in Naters, Switzerland
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Fallen beech leaves on a forest track in Reinhardwald in Hesse in Germany near Weißehütte
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Blick von oben auf Weinberge und Obstbaumalleen
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die Holzscheite sind aufgeschichtet im Backhaus im Wartberg, Stuttgart
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Im Dachswald in Stuttgart Heslach eine Ansammlung von Hutpilzen
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Weg zur Insel Reichenau ist gesäumt von der Pyramiden -Pappelallee
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Firbent forsamling i Hosanger på Osterøy
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Displacement reaction of lead nitrate
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Scots pine in the Lutzelbourg forest Alsace France
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Smoked "Wattwürmer" at "Bierbörse Cologne"
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Find the four-leaf clover
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Many chironomids has cluster flutter dancing at roadside in Yilan
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Wild clover in late autumn
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Arte de Cildo Meireles
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Flor de salsa
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Uma concha e seus grãos de areia
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Movimento #EleNão
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Seafood buffet with shrimps in Vrångö, Sweden
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Maneki-neko (Japanese Lucky Cat) Statues at Gotokuji Temple, Tokyo
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Many beach crows on the beach near Wyk auf Föhr
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Many daisies (Bellis perennis)
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Harvested Riesling grapes
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Red deer herd in the Südliche Weinstraße Wildlife Park
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Lot to learn
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Lot of Little Labourers
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Gravestones of world war I cemetery, Sarrebourg, France
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Hatched cross spiders, North Germany
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Starry sky at Kanaan Camp, Namibia
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Pigeon fighting on wall of Piazza Grande in Gubbio, Italy
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Sea of flowers in the citadel of Roses, Spain
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French military cemetery with basilisk and lantern tower. Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France)
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Decorative pavement in Albaicín, Granada
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Monk and Nun tile roofs of Lesser Town palaces, viewed from the Ledebour Garden, Prague
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Railing in Small Pálffy Garden, Prague
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Dormer windows of the Wallenstein palace, viewed from Small Fürstenberg Garden, Prague
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Plovers, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
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Red wood ants in early spring
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Poppy field
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Larch trees in autumn
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Maoricolpus - the New Zealand screw shell, at Aramoana Beach, Dunedin
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Colony of king penguins in South Georgia
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Hier ist Zählen zwecklos
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Dome tiles of the Mouassine mosque in Marrakech
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Meeting of pigeons in Kolkata
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Perline di vetro per ricami
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Frammenti di murrine Millefiori per mosaici in vetro
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Eriophorum_scheuchzeri in Vanoise National Park
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Mohnfeld in Sachsen 2H1A0931WI
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School strike for climate
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Mosaic on the columns
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Lotus Pond in the exotic gardens in Bouqnadel-Morocco
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Ceiba speciosa in Secret Garden in Marrakech-Morocco
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Spinnen-Mutti
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The sparks are too many to count when this cracker blown
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2023 olives harvest in Basilicata
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Albero di mimosa in fiore
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Beethoven in Bonn
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Frühlingsfeld in Sachsen IMG 5281WI
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Ostereierbaum mit 10.000 Eiern geschmückt IMG 0013WI
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Too many bricks to count
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Models of the Eiffel tower, Paris
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Too many candles to count
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Blue Church, Bratislava
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Dead lotus flowers
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Foliage in the forest
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Fishing boats in the fishing harbour of Malpe, Karnataka, India
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Sorting fish in the fishing port of Malpe, Karnataka
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Crows gathering in an old oak tree before flying to their roosting trees
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Wine bottle tops at a market in the Camargue
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Too many stars — the Triangulum constellation
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Traditional pottery utensils from Safi-Morocco
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Beer cans are stored in the Backpocket Brewing Company production facility in Coralville.
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Daikon (Japanese white radish)
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Все ключи выброшены в реку
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Новая партия авто от производителя
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Березовые дрова
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Иллюминация
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Crowded car carrier
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Rags to riches - the onion trader
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Various equipment
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Clay seats made for Lakshmi pujan on Diwali period mainly used by Sindhi community of Gujarat
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Beer cans are stored in the Backpocket Brewing Company production facility in Coralville.
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Wall of many bricks
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Closeup of the many golden mosaic pieces that make up the large outer discs of Matrimandir in Auroville, India.
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Sorting freshly picked cherry tomatoes at Solitude Farm in Auroville, India.
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The roads of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with scooter traffic. One scooterist has a unique yellow helmet with a winky smile on the back of it, making him/her standout from others.
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A street vendor in Vasco da Gama Square in Fort Kochi, India, demonstrates the spirographs he is trying to sell.
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Ostereierbaum mit 10.000 Eiern geschmückt IMG 9243WI
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Vögel
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Uncountable spring flowers in Mainz
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Collection of conifer cones in the Botanical Garden of Hokkaido University in Sapporo
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Pacific Sardines - Monterey Bay Aquarium (California)
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The Iola People's Fair, Wisconsin, June 1970
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Love padlocks at the bridge 'Eiserner Steg', Frankfurt am Main
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Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial
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Arranged rhinestones, Swarowski shop in Lugano
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Flock of sheep in Vanoise National Park
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Flock of sheep in Vanoise National Park
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Ruthenian carpet
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A 50 mm shot of Jaipur from a nearby fort.
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>100.000 breeding King Penguins
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Uspenski cathedral chandelier
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Plates in the Gurum Das Langar in Amritsar, probably the largest community kitchen in the world
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Plates in the Gurum Das Langar in Amritsar, probably the largest community kitchen in the world
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Plates in the Gurum Das Langar in Amritsar, probably the largest community kitchen in the world
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Volcanic rock pebbles on a seashore
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Triangles in the roof of Heuston Station, Dublin, Ireland
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A shoe shop in Japan
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Flores de trevo na grama
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Laranjas, limões e bergamotas
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Torcedores do Sport Club Internacional no estádio Beira Rio, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
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Flores de Salvia splendens em Gramado, RS, Brasil
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Parc à huitres à Gouville sur mer - Cotentin - France
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Giovani ragni di Araneus diadematus
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Trade fair "Interboot" in Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Coprinellus disseminatus in the forest.
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Railing on the bridge (Zábradlie na moste)
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Ducks at Kadambrayar River, Kerala
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October 2023
Previous challenges
September 2023
- Beach ->
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Title | Cabourg beach, France | Cabourg beach, France | Taken in Hovs Hallar which is a nature reserve on the Bjäre Peninsula in the county of Skåne, Sweden |
Author | Ibex73 | Ibex73 | Pasi Mammela |
Score | 13 | 12 | 10 |
- Compost ->
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Title | Close up view of compost | Компост та кури | Biogas tank, in the foreground green cuttings |
Author | Niwrat | Любмир | Foeniz |
Score | 30 | 24 | 12 |
August 2023
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Title | Proso millet in Zurich | Drying millet on the Bolaven Plateau (Laos) | Eat it up |
Author | Ephramac | Pierre André Leclercq | Sneha G Gupta |
Score | 22 | 15 | 10 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | 3(+3) dancers performing on stage | Nenda & Gilewicz live in Vienna |
Dancer on stage |
Author | Virtual-Pano | Tsui | Virtual-Pano |
Score | 15 | 9 | 8 |
July 2023
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Title | Storm Mathis - Lake Zug | oceans are rising | Contaminación atmosférica en la ciudad de Madrid |
Author | Roy Egloff | Spielvogel | Saldeplata |
Score | 13 | 9 | 9 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | Farm track near Micheldever, Hampshire |
My birthday cake! Oops there's only half left! |
Ein in der Längsachse vertikal zerstückeltes Automobil. |
Author | Simon Burchell | Anna.Massini | Levin Holtkamp |
Score | 15 | 15 | 11 |
June 2023
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Title | Tunnel at London King's Cross illuminated in rainbow colours |
Rainbow yarn for knitting, display in front of a needlework shop in Graz, Austria |
This shows the view directly above the basket of a hot air balloon. |
Author | The wub | Lusi Lindwurm | Hu Nhu |
Score | 19 | 11 | 8 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | Kasachische Jurten in der Kyzylkum/ Usbekistan |
Chegem-001 | Chegem-002 |
Author | Carsten Siegel | Саня Новиков | Саня Новиков |
Score | 17 | 17 | 13 |
May 2023
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Title | Close up photograph of wing of Papilio demoleus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lime Swallowtail |
weibliche Schwarze Habichtsfliege (Dioctria atricapilla) mit Morgentau |
Caterpillar of the small frost moth on a rose leaf |
Author | ManaskaMukhopadhyay | Carsten Siegel | Ermell |
Score | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | Victoria crowned pigeon | Western Crowned Pigeon in Geneva, Switzerland. |
Peacock feather close-up |
Author | Roy Egloff | RomanDeckert | Mister rf |
Score | 10 | 9 | 7 |
April 2023
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Title | Pylon of high-voltage line crossing Elbe River at Hetlinger Schanze near Hamburg, Germany |
Street corner in Nice's old town | Ballonwettbewerb |
Author | Mozzihh | Virtual-Pano | Mensch01 |
Score | 13 | 12 | 12 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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Title | Sheep with lamb, lying on a dyke, which they graze as dyke sheep for erosion control, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
Poitou donkey foal (Equus asinus) in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park |
Baby alpacas of a Quechua Family (Huaman Quispe farm) - Alpacas bebes - Paqucha uña Nuñoa llaqtamanta |
Author | Lusi Lindwurm | F. Riedelio | Elwinlhq |
Score | 16 | 13 | 13 |
March 2023
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Title | Facade of a house at 277, Fondamenta Cavanella in Burano (Italy) |
Washing clothes in a open area | Laundry lines in a residential neighbourhood in Venice, Italy |
Author | Ermell | Pauloleong2002 | Marc-Lautenbacher |
Score | 15 | 12 | 11 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | Ice-Hotel in Quebec Canada, the only one in North America |
Spa at Tschuggen Grand Hotel | The Dolder Grand, Zurich, Switzerland |
Author | Marc-Lautenbacher | Roy Egloff | Roy Egloff |
Score | 15 | 14 | 12 |
February 2023
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Title | Handle of leather trunk from the early 1900s |
Handle Of A Pots Lid | Glättkelle mit rotem Holzgriff |
Author | Mariojan photo | OJjnr | VSchagow |
Score | 14 | 8 | 8 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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Title | Royal Clipper sailing the Med |
cruise vessel 'Expedition' in Antarctica |
Cruise ships in Geiranger Fjord, Norway |
Author | Cbuske46 | Virtual-Pano | Hgrobe |
Score | 26 | 10 | 10 |
January 2023
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Title | A growler became a sculpture | wind-blown rime ice found on a summit cross |
jogger crossing the icy right barrier gate of the Jahnwehr weir in Bamberg, Germany |
Author | Virtual-Pano | Roy Egloff | Ermell |
Score | 19 | 18 | 15 |
Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Title | Hospital corridor in the “Marienhaus Klinikum Hetzelstift“ |
Hospital corridor covered with Namib sand in ghost town Kolmanskop, Namibia |
Ny del av Haukeland Universitetssykehus fra Møllendal gravplass i Bergen |
Author | F. Riedelio | Mozzihh | Odd Roar Aalborg |
Score | 16 | 14 | 11 |