Hello and welcome, fellow Photography Lovers! It has been an honor and privilege to manage and curate this amazing community. As many of you may have noticed, there hasn't been a HotShot curation report in quite a while.
Putting together these curation posts is quite a daunting task at times. I generally have the template set up to accommodate 70 photos including the user and the title link to take you all directly to the post where that featured photograph comes from. At times I cut it a bit shorter and at other times I add a few extra just to stay caught up to the flow of content we have posted into our community.
I am a one-man team and have been for quite some time now. Curating isn't just plugging in all the posts and the links and user names. Curating means getting rid of scammers and bot accounts trying to milk rewards. Curating includes manually reviewing each individual post and also checking for undisclosed AI and plagiarized content.
Clearly, this is not an easy chore and I am not even mentioning my other tasks on Hive I do from behind the scenes. The primary focus of these reports is to help everyone get more traffic to your blogs and content. It is also structured to make sure that posts are still open for voting so that we can all reward and support each other. This is only possible when I stay caught up though.
Lately, we have had family company for days multiple times in a row. My son is getting to the stage where he is becoming almost as wild as his father and needs constant supervision. Our not-so-new apartment is still in need of many actions to make it truly a home.
I have been on dad duty while my partner has been doing her schooling and internships. Needless to say, I haven't had much time to even open my computer, let alone do all the things necessary to manage and curate as well as the standard i hold myself to. I personally cannot do Hive oriented anything on a phone.
In general, i try to chronologically go through all the posts in the community to see which ones will be nominated for OCD votes and which ones will be featured in our HotShots reports. I have gotten so far behind i hit a wall and don't even know where to start to pick back up and was/am very close to burn-out. I have tried to at least take what little computer time i could manage to scrounge up and drop the nominations for the OCD votes as often as possible.
So, i have not been completely inactive but whenever i have had time to hop online there has been so much to remove and moderate it left me with even less time to do the more fun and social aspects of why i enjoy HIVE. I also do all of this for the Alien Art Hive community but i get some help there and i am very grateful to Julia for all that she has done.
This is not a 'poor pitiful me' post and i am not looking for sympathy or anything, i just wanted to give some context and let you all know what's up. I will be going back and selecting some posts that have already paid out and will be selecting in a more refined way features for this round of HotSHots. To be honest, these curation reports are the most difficult to make and pay the least amount of rewards. I may be doing HotShots in a more streamlined and shorter form moving forward. Everyone here is always supportive of me and understandably knows that family ALWAYS comes first. But, y'all are also my PhotoFamily!
I would love to hear any feedback, ideas, suggestions, or changes you all think i could apply to make our community more engaging and rewarding for us all down in the comments.
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 @carminasalazarte | Weekend Compilation: Yellow Flowers [ENG/ESP] |
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 @hadrianwild | A Rat's Eye View of Fallen Leaves |
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 @tattoodjay | Mono Monday here and there |
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 @plantfuljourney | Historic town of Arbon |
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 @victorbz | The portraits of survivors - series of photographs |
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 @tonyz | Pussy Bar |
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 @konquest | Chatterbox Falls / Princess Lousia Inlet |
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 @haastrecht | Mono Museum Monday |
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 @marijasworld | Oui, c´est moi! |
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 @alokeen | Light |
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 @rossfletcher | Some shots from the fires in California. I wasn't sure I would ever post these |
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 @iquique | Temporada de ballena en Iquique / ,Whale season in Iquique |
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 @scottshots | This Morning's Emerald Bay Sunrise |
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 @naitreart | Moments in baseball games [Eng/Esp] |
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 @androliuben | A Pregnant Woman with her Family |
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 @goga22 | The story of Maksmilijan, the beautiful Maks |
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 @papilloncharity | Some sunflower hippie doggies |
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 @x-rain | Two Weeks of Catspotting in Bangkok |
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 @themyscira | Set down in the middle of nowhere... spring is coming in full force/ Abgesetzt im Nirgendwo… der Frühling kommt in vollen Zügen |
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 @russia-btc | My wife's first photo shoot 🖤🤍 - Lala Lake |
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 @silviamaria | Looking back at a bucolic life |
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| @tattoodjay | reds |
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 @jlinaresp |
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 @greddyforce | Some Winter Scenes From Last Yearhttps://images.hive.blog/0x0/ |
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 @harveyword | The Pyramid of the 38th Parallel - Sicily Italy |
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 @sniki003 | The best museum you will ever see is in the Vatican |
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 @anitahorvatirl | Collapse in the town |
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| @alokeen | A little more |
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 @dayanart | Iron dog |
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 @wilfredocav | A view of the sunset and the horizon |
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 @gatubela | Belleza detrás de las rejas. Las aves del zoológico de Las Delicias (Aragua, Venezuela) / Beauty behind bars. The birds of Las Delicias Zoo (Aragua, Venezuela) |
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 @honeydue | Frightful |
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| @goga22 | Heavenly show |
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| @russia-btc | Photoshoot at the Sanctuary of Truth: the magic of light and shadow 🏯🌴 |
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 @annativa | A Cycling Adventure Through the Vineyards of Franciacorta |
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 @littlebee4 | ☀️ “Walk around the Iznájar Reservoir towards the Dam with me” ~ IZNÁJAR, Cordoba province in Spain 🇪🇸 |
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 @joyyyy | THE EDO BEAUTY |
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 @mynewlife | Quad in the wild. Mobile photography |
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 @fatemehsohrabiii | The beauty of nature with the faces of sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻and bees |
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 @rafasanz93 | Mary and Manuel, a nice photo session/ Mary y Manuel, una bonita sesión de fotos (ENG/ESP) |
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| @victorbz | And then i found these festive bubbles. (series of images) |
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 @azamsohrabi | Registering beauty and feeling in single bride photography |
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 @cc0pics | Oh My Goodness |
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 @miljo76 | European Carnival 2025 |
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 @steven-patrick | Food as art |
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| @alokeen | Change life |
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 @chanych85 | Cold morning |
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 @hiddenblade | Yapping using my camera |
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| @goga22 | My city - Part One |
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 @macchiata | When Credit Doesn’t Click |
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| @fatemehsohrabiii | My little sister Saba, happy birthday.🎂🎂🎂🎂 |
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 @silviabeneforti | The redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) |
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| @papilloncharity | Some beautiful little birdies |
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| @tattoodjay | Greens |
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 @darrenflinders | I'm not sure what this is.... |
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| @russia-btc | 🌍 The world through the eyes of a photographer |
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 @rg2-foto | The Magic of Connecting with Animals [ENG/ESP] |
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 @rocio.isab | Mixing birds with water [Eng / Esp] |
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 @naveen.jogta | Whispers of Snow After the Firestorm |
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| @plantfuljourney | Arbon castle |
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 @plantasticka | Artists’ Picnic in Kaunas: A Day of Creativity |
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 @buquiq | "The Gentleman of Havana: The Enduring Legend of the Knight of Paris" [ ENG ] |
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| @scottshots | Lake Tahoe Surface Reflection Abstracts |
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 @ellenripley | Nature Reclaimed: Walking through the Old Coking Plant |
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 @marc-allaria | UNDERWATER MACROPHOTOGRAPHY |
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| @azamsohrabi | Birthday photography; Register of endless joys 🎂🎈🎁 |
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 @sreten | Symbols of faith and pride: The light of the Temple and the shadow of Prince Lazar |
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| @plantasticka | Kaunas Culture Fair in Photos: A Day of Art, Dance, and Connection |
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| @rg2-foto | Defying the Giant of Foam |
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 @captainbob | From Engagement to Newborn |
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and honor the selections today. Keep up the great work creating your content and thanks for sharing it here with us in the Photography Lovers Community!
We will not be curating single-image posts, especially with little to no description. This community is focused on high-quality content which includes what surrounds the images you share here.
We do not curate cross-posts
Don't forget to go by and support your fellow photographers by checking out their posts and leaving some meaningful and engaging comments. Engaging in the community is what helps build and grow it. We are all here to support each other!
