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Featured Author: @arosebunch The Regal Horned Lizard

https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmV227ELkFrbQvRWVKv75E8AZV1WHGEWM37t2fxtfUrmeM/IMG_8721.jpg Images property of @arosebunch Magical creatures are out there, you just got to go outside and look for them @arosebunch has proof of this, she stumbled upon a ***Regal Horned Lizard*** while she was in one strolling through the desert, she didn't skip a beat and began a photography season with her new and badass model! A Tiny Dragon!!!

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> Growing up in Mexico I had the liberty to experience the outdoors and developed a love of animals and nature. Although I have always loved photography, it wasn’t until recently that I was able to pursue my passion. I consider myself lucky to be able to experience and capture nature with my photographs. I say I found this little guy by sheer luck and nothing else. I was so excited to see him (assuming it’s a he but I truly have no idea), it made enduring the intense heat well worth it. I love horned lizards, and for that reason I made sure to disturb it as little as possible (I was afraid to cause it to stress or cause it to run and spend precious energy doing so). I am so thankful that I got lucky and he stays put as long as he did. I can’t wait to go back and see what else I can find to share with you all. - @arosebunch Ana is a desert dweller and amateur photographer that has being posting posting in Steemit since april of 2018, capturing her life and the most beautiful part of the desert for all of us to enjoy, if you want to see the most amazing part of the Sonoran desert then this is a blog you will love for sure! https://s20.postimg.cc/9x6smjpfx/Curie_Divider_upvote_BIG.png

Featured Author: @wandering-veggie Interviewing Nomadic Matt - the world's #1 budget travel writer!

https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://thewanderingvegetable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/matt_europe.jpg Images property of @wandering-veggie Few times we get to know or talk with the person that inspired us to take our path in our lives but @wandering-veggie got the opportunity to interview his idol and inspiration ***[The Nomadic Matt](https://www.nomadicmatt.com/)*** The number one budget travel blog writer! A really down to earth conversation about how it is to be a travel blog writer the challenges and joys of that lifestyle!

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> I remember the day when I decided to start my travel blog - The Wandering Vegetable. I was nervous, excited and clueless, not knowing how to go about it. But then I came across this travel blogger who, according to Google, was (and still is!) the biggest travel-blogger in the business - Matthew Kepnes. I took a leap of faith and joined his Superstar Blogging Course which guided me through the business of blogging and here I am today - interviewing "Nomadic Matt" himself! - @wandering-veggie A wandering blogger in our platform since august 2018 with his own personal blog called [The Wandering Vegetable](https://thewanderingvegetable.com/) where he shares his experiences traveling at the same time that he does it in our platform, with a light style but always focused on balancing the good with the bad the quality of this writer is really exceptional! https://s20.postimg.cc/9x6smjpfx/Curie_Divider_upvote_BIG.png

Featured Author: @tygertyger La Chasse-Galerie

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> La Chasse-Galerie was originally an instrumental piece by @vachemorte it is also a legend amongst Native and French Canadians in many ways resembling the Norse and Celtic Wild Hunt; but here a cursed canoe with ghostly figures and wolves are the main drivers of the hunt. The Grim Bovine once again let me play with his toys, here is the result - Enjoy ! please excuse my horrible French I just could not resist … - @tygertyger A committed steemian engaged with communities and with the making of quality content, she drops in her blog tons of posts from contests to songs and personal thoughts and reflexions of her life, her blog is the perfect mix of casual and professional and is like that since january of 2018, when she joined our blockchain community! https://s20.postimg.cc/9x6smjpfx/Curie_Divider_upvote_BIG.png

Featured Author: @adncabrera First Expedition The fires of Alpha. Where monsters live. NextColony SCI-FI "RPG Story Contest" #3 - THE ARRIVAL ON ALPHA

https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://i.postimg.cc/FzSb865F/nc-logo-klein.png Images property of @adncabrera In the Steemit ecosystem we are really diverse, this is one of the few places where you can enjoy the work of a writer inspired by the gameplay of a game based on the blockchain, @adncabrera is one of the best examples of that case, she entered a contest inspired by the game NextColony and she unfolds before us a wonderful sci-fi story tha will certainly make all of you travel to unexplored worlds! > One of the things that makes me feel complete is the possibility of unleashing imaginary worlds. I am a writer, and I use writing (and reading, always the wonderful reading) to explore worlds in which I can live the adventures that fiction can offer me. I love genres that contravene reality, question it and widen it; from folkloric tales, fantasy, Science Fiction... Steemit has offered me an exceptional opportunity to explore these genres not only in my ordinary publications, but through many contests that are very stimulating and challenging, as well as meeting extraordinary writers with whom I can interact. The story that the incredible @curie team has decided to include in this Showcase (arising from the call made by @art-universe / @nextcolony) is part of a Science Fiction novel, in process, of which I have already published three previews on the platform: - [Armenta](https://steemit.com/nextcolony-contest/@adncabrera/armentasci-firpg-writingcontest1-3qcly06567) - [Captain Quirón](https://steemit.com/nextcolony-contest/@adncabrera/captainquirn12symbolicentrysci-firpg-writingcontest1-kbxp07caur#@gysmo/gysmo-re-adncabrera-captainquirn12symbolicentrysci-firpg-writingcontest1-kbxp07caur-20190407t135245540z) - [The music of Zyklop](https://steemit.com/nextcolony-contest/@adncabrera/armentasecondpartthemusicofzyklopnextcolonysci-firpgstorycontest2-wsyl3kmooq). - @adncabrera She is a classical writer that took our blockchain platform as her home and archive, she writes about almost everything when she gets herself inspired, her blog is a collection of children tales, ghost stories, sci-fi adventures, epic tales and even romantic stories, if you scroll through her blog you'll find something that you''l love since she've been posting since December of 2017, and experimented steemian! https://s20.postimg.cc/9x6smjpfx/Curie_Divider_upvote_BIG.png

Featured Author: @sawyn Trip ad2

https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/sawyn/647z7re3-IMG_7627.jpg Images property of @sawyn When you travel one of the best ways to document it is through a camera and a good photographer can capture the best of the journey now when you go out with @sawyn and @photovisions you know you're in for a treat of photography, these two went to the ***Dovrefjell Mountains*** in ***Norway*** and got the most breathtaking shots with woderful landscapes and an unexpected furry model!

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> We're going back to next shots from May 1 !!! It was a great trip with my photographic friend @photovisions, everything has become a spontaneous trip to the surroundings of -Dovrefjell mountains. - @sawyn As one of the most talented photographers in the blockchain he transformed his blog to a gallery where he exposes his best shots and shares them with us as well as his experiences surrounding those pictures, it's being more than a year since he started his journey in Steemit but his quality just keeps immproving! https://s20.postimg.cc/9x6smjpfx/Curie_Divider_upvote_BIG.png This Curie Author Showcase was written by Curie Curator @elfranz (Franz) at times with input from other Curie curators and reviewers. All images and quoted texts are the copyright of their respective authors.