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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

Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style.

Participation

Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply

1. Choose one or all of the current challenges
2. Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
3. Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons)
4. Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
5. Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry).

   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.

6. Do not sign your submission(s)
7. If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote

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.

To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list.

New themes can be proposed and discussed here.

Assessment

After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here.

Winning

The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.

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Challenges open for submission

2024 – June – Construction site

The new challenge features Construction sites.

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 June 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. June 2024 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.

There are 8 days 17 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Cava abbandonata di Roselle
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  Thirumalai Naicker Palace Madurai Renovation.
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  KohleWelt. (Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz) 2H1A8308WI
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  Road construction in Tondi, Tallinn. June 2024
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  Baustelle im Windpark Gersdorf-Bernsdorf, Sachsen 2H1A0184WI
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  Umbau der Paltrockwindmühle Kyhna 2H1A5531WI
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  Baustelle in Chemnitz, Sachsen 2H1A7936WI
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  Old heating pipes needing replacement
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  Construction of grade crossing in Tondi (Tallinn), april 2024
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  A red tower crane against a blue sky at a construction site in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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  King Rajaraja Chola's Mani-Mandapa (built in 1991) is being renovated.
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  Ristrutturazione a Caltanissetta; per la realizzazione della cucina prototipale della dieta mediterranea di Palazzo Tumminelli in Via M. Tumminelli.
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  Taken by night in 2009 in Milan, Corso Como, Garibaldi area.
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  Taken by night in 2009 in Milan, Garibaldi area.
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  Construction site parking garage P14 at Stuttgart Airport
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  Roadworks on the county road K 10
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  Demolition site of the so-called Kaufhof store "Tortenschachtel" (cake box) on Berliner Platz
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  Construction site at the building pit of the so-called former Kaufhof store "Tortenschachtel" (cake box) on Berliner Platz
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  Seetor City Campus
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  rail construction
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  Building materials at the ABS construction site in Unteroberndorf
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  Travaux Conctruction A75 - Tronçon Béziers-Pézenas
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  Travaux Conctruction A75 - Tronçon Béziers-Pézenas
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  Travaux Conctruction A75 - Tronçon Béziers-Pézenas
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  Travaux Conctruction A75 - Tronçon Béziers-Pézenas
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  Travessia pedonal ao longo da Avenida de Guimarães na Taipa, Macau
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  building remaining facade at Taipa, Macau
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  Buildings in Hengqin face to Macau
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  Workers at building under construction
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  Workers attaching a chain to the Main bridge in Ebing
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  Hilton and appartment building
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  Assembling of big satellite dish.
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  Assembling of big satellite dish on the roof of building.
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  Piling work for the foundation of a hospital building in Palembang, July 2016
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  Stone crushed into building material
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  Heating pipes prepared for replacement of worn-out; Lublin, Poland
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  Apartment building under construction in Lublin; Poland
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  The construction site of New Taipei Metro railway and bridge repair work program.
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  Construction workers walk on the roof of a light rail transit station project
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  Material and a dumpster at the Laim S Bahn stop during the construction of the new trunk line in Munich
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  S-Bahn stop in Laim during construction of the new trunk line in Munich
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  S-Bahn stop in Laim during construction of the new trunk line in Munich
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  Construction of the new trunk line in Munich
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  Labour Intensive Road Project
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  construction of tower
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  Abandoned building reconstructed
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  Housing unit construction
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  Stavoren. Shipyard shipyard crane.
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  Construction at rgipt
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  家门口的建筑工地
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  589 Fulton Street under construction
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  This bikeway section was closed for the reconstruction project of Zhongzheng Bridge
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  Polyethylene gas pipe installation
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  Tokyo Skytree under construction.
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  Worker with milling machine
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  Machine on site sky
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  Crane and concrete pipe on site
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  Crane on site sky
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  Construction site Container
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  Construction vehicle
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  Construction ongoing
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  Greenhouse building in progress
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  Arc construction in process
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  Construction and deconstruction - a process in single frame
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  Humber Bay Park, Toronto
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  Самое начало. Строительство подземной камеры.
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  Установка арматурной конструкции в подготовленную траншею
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  Groningen (city), construction cranes above the station area.
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  Pouring of Concrete Foundation
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  Construction site of Tokyo Gaikan Expressway in Misato, Saitama, Japan
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  Carpenter working on a concrete formwork
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Reconstruction site at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, May 2024
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  Ryukan-Sakura Bridge under construction in Tokyo, Japan
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  Installing roof structure, Indonesia, November 2019
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  Construction of Beiheng Passageway in Shanghai, China, in June 2023
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  Australian Sailor Monument under construction, Rockingham Naval Memorial Park, June 2024
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  A construction site as part of urban transformation in the Asian side of İstanbul
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  Railway construction in Khabarovsk, 2024
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  Workers installing roof on construction project of Light Rail Transit Station in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Picture taken at Friday, 16 March 2018
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  A construction of an addtional buildings at a mall
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  Demolition of the old Stade Municipal Emmanuel Thery (2019) Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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  Decathlon Aréna project - Stade Pierre Mauroy Construction (2012) Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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  Construction site for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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  270 Park Avenue in NYC under construction
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  Canadian Parliament Buildings renovations in 2021
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  Henan Nanyang pavement construction site
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  A seaside construction site in Busan
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  Just finished building the Buddha statue
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  Construction and flooring work at a railway station on Andhra Pradesh, India
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  FORMER EVERGRANDE GROUP REAL ESTATE IN GUIYUAN ROAD, SHENZHEN, Photo taken at Tuesday, 2 October 2022
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  To submit pictures please follow this link

2024 – June – Fungus

The new challenge features Mushrooms and Fungi.

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 June 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. June 2024 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.

There are 8 days 17 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)

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  Unidentified fungi at Federation Forest State Park.
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  Unidentified fungi at Federation Forest State Park.
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  Unidentified fungi at Federation Forest State Park.
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  Il fungo raro Rhodotus palmatus a rischio di estinzione in Europa, indicato come 'quasi minacciato' a livello Globale (IUCN Red List). Nel parco urbano di Villa Ada a Roma.
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  Flechten sind omnipräsent im Winter am Killesberg
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  Auf den Mauern bilden sich Flechten, die in der Sonne glänzen
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  Im jüdischen Friedhof in Worms stehen unzählige Grabsteine mit der Natur vereint
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  Coprinus comatus (Schopftintling) in different stages of decay
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  Young Coprinus comatus (Schopftintling)
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  Poisonous mushrooms against a forest in autumn, Wrzosów, Poland
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  A colony of small inedible mushrooms, Wrzosów forest, Poland
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  Milky brown Amanita pantherina in undergrowth, Mińsk County, Poland
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  The porous underside of Fomes fomentarius on a birch in winter
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  Stereum lobatum near Norris Dam in Norris, Tennessee
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  Mycena galericulata
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  Yellow fungus (Tremela mesenterica) on dead branch.
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  Bushy Beard Lichen (Usnea strigosa)
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  Mashroom 8
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  Mashroom 6
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  Un esemplare del fungo Amanita vittadinii in un prato
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  Esemplari di Coprinellus crescendo cespitosi ai piedi di un albero
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  Famiglia di funghi di Oudemansiella mucida sul tronco di un albero
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  Cuticula di un esemplare di Volvariella bombycina
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  Plicaturopsis crispa on dead branch.
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  Una famiglia di funghi tra il muschio
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  Mushrooms and Fungi. Nigeria
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  Mushrooms and Fungi. Nigeria
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  Mushrooms and Fungi. Nigeria
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  Mushrooms and Fungi. Nigeria
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  Fly agaric hats (Amanita muscaria) eaten by snails
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  Tree stump with the bracket fungi Trametes versicolor
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  Tree stump with the bracket fungi Ganoderma adspersum
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  Edible king trumpet mushroom (Pleurotus eryngii)
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  Wood decay mushrooms
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  Die Pilze sehen aus wie eine Halskette
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  Fungo Leccinellum pseudoscabrum (Kallenb.) Mikšík. Bosco misto di castagni, Monte Rocca Romana, Lazio
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  Junger Knollenblätterpilz (Amanita phalloides), Heidelberg
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  Nördlicher Zinnoberschwamm (Pycnoporus cinnebarinus)
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  Gemeiner Steinpilz, Hiiumaa, Estland
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  Buchen-Schleimrübling, Mittl. Guckkastenweg, Heidelberg
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  Amanita muscaria · Fausse oronge
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  Fistulina hepatica · Langue de bœuf
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  Lycoperdaceae - Vesse de loup
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  Fungi on a tree trunk in LSG Emmeringer Leite, Eichenauer Wald
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  Fungi on a tree trunk in LSG Emmeringer Leite, Eichenauer Wald
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  Fungi on a tree trunk in LSG Emmeringer Leite, Eichenauer Wald
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  Fungi on a tree trunk in LSG Emmeringer Leite, Eichenauer Wald
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  Morchella preparing for cooking
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  mushrooms preparing for cooking
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  mushrooms in different shape on the same wood
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  mushrooms in white colour on grass
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  Rotten mushrooms
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  Two type fungus sprouted from ropes at tree triple support points
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  Fly agaric in the forest near Seigelstein
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  Leccinum versipelle
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  Polypore on a dead branch.
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  Agaricus
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  Amanita muscaria Mushroom
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  Mushroom colony on a rotten tree
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  A specimen of a brown bolete found in the forest
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  :A pair of mushrooms in the grass
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  Dried cap of the brown bolete
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  Drenched Amanita muscaria in decline.
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  Hygrocybe miniata. Location, Hortus (Haren, Groningen) Netherlands.
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  2 young amanita muscaria
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  Schildborstlinge (Scutellinia)
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  fly amanita in October
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  Mushrooms at Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas
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  Crimini mushroms, pearl onions, and fresh herbs in pot roast
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  Mushroom Lovers
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  Deformed clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis), a mushroom that grows on another mushroom.
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  Schwefelporlinge an einem abgestorbenen Baum
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  Schmetterlingstrameten an einem toten Baum im Wald
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  Pickled mushrooms in Saint Petersburg shop
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  All Green gathered at the corner
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  Playing Hide and seek at the edge
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  Белый
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  Опята
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  Amanita caesareoides
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  Xerocomus subtomentosus in Vanoise National Park
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  Russula ochroleuca in Vanoise National Park
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  Calvatia booniana in Vanoise National Park
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  Hortus Haren. ( Laetiporus sulphureus ) on ( Ginkgo biloba ).
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  Amanita muscaria Location De Famberhorst.
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  Oyster Mushrooms in the Mille Lacs lake area in Minnesota June 2nd 2024
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  Calocera viscosa in Burgundy
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  A young fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) in the center of small fairy ring
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  Macrolepiota procera.
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  Armillaria on a fagus sylvatica
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  Pleurotus on liriodendron root
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  Reddish mutinus caninus
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  Pleurocybella porrigens
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  Cerrena zonata
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  Phallus impudicus
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  Amanita muscaria
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  Amanita phalloides
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  Hand holding a portobello mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
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  Leccinum scabrum
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  After the rain
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  Yellow-patches Ontario Canada
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  Some porcini mushrooms
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  Shelf mushroom Ontario Canada
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  Oyster mushroom Ottawa Ontario
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  Mushroom with mushroom
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  Amanita family
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  Small mushrooms
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  Mushrooms are growing
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Challenges open for voting

Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month. The votes not complying with those requirements will be removed or converted to praises. In some cases users might be asked to correct their votes after voting ends.

May 2024

• Waves
• Pets

Previous challenges

April 2024

Vertical lines: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Колонны здания администрации и думы Новгородской области 2H1A4397WI	Columns on the façade of the Philharmonie in Luxembourg	Fassade Mark- Twain- Grundschule 02
Author	Kora27	Ermell	ThoBel-0043
Score	25	14	11

Flames: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Visitors at the 2024 Easter fire in Rottorf	Campfire at lake Yngen, Filipstad Municipality, Värmland, Sweden	Osterfeuer im oberen Murtal
Author	F. Riedelio	Mozzihh	Bitisajn
Score	21	14	10

March 2024

Grays: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Sieben graue Köpfe	Reflections - Shyok River	Nina-Replica
Author	Mensch01	Prof Ranga Sai	Wingerham52
Score	20	18	11

Courthouses: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Palazzo di Guistizia with Courte di Cassazione at river Tiber, Rome, Italy	North facade of Palais de justice de Paris.	Supreme Court of Finland at night
Author	Mozzihh	FreCha	GPSLeo
Score	19	15	12

February 2024

Lunar New Year: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Dragon Dance, Oklahoma City, OK, Lunar New Year, 2024 (Year of the Dragon)	Sec. 1, Wuchang St., Taipei City, with LED lights decorations above on 2024 Chinese New Year	Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown, Singapore, with CNY decorations above
Author	OKJaguar	Junyu-K	S5A-0043
Score	11	9	9

Knots: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Boat knot	Figure-eight loop in mountaineering	Root knot of a beech tree
Author	Teseo	Wagner Cxxx	Foeniz
Score	11	9	8

January 2024

Silos: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Garfield Grain Elevator and Silos Garfield Washington USA	Feed silos in Hirschbrunn near Burgebrach	Silos of the Hannoversche Portland -Cementfabrik (abandoned in 1986)
Author	DaveGinOly	Ermell	Hgrobe
Score	19	13	8

Masks: Entries • Votes • Scores

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Title	Narrentag 2024 - Elzacher Schuttig	Kirchseoner Perchtenlauf - old winter parade tradition in Bavaria. Mask of type "Klaubauf"	Taken in Dublin, march 2014
Author	Rainer Halama	Würmchen-vom-Mölchlein	Oncewerecolours
Score	13	13	10

Previous years

• Photo challenge in 2023
• Photo challenge in 2022
• Photo challenge in 2021
• Photo challenge in 2020
• Photo challenge in 2019
• Photo challenge in 2018
• Photo challenge in 2017
• Photo challenge in 2016
• Photo challenge in 2015
• Photo challenge in 2014
• Photo challenge in 2013