This Made Me Smile! Challenge #81 in the Life in the Natural World series. Hosted by RuthC. Challenge has finished In this challenge, show us a photo of something in the natural world which brought a smile to your face. Perhaps it was an insect, spider or other small creature, a flower or plant, or maybe rocks. Macro and close-ups welcome. Size 1,600px MAXIMUM. Show full rules Announced: Saturday, 4th January, 2014 (GMT) Submissions: Saturday, 11th January, 2014 – Friday, 17th January, 2014 (GMT) Voting: Saturday, 18th January, 2014 – Friday, 24th January, 2014 (GMT) Processing rules: SIZE: Longer side of entry, MAXIMUM 1600px. Full colour only. No glaringly obvious HDR. If it hurts my eyes, it's out! Don't remove the background. TITLE: Give your entry a title, not just a photo number. NO watermarks or forms of identification, or personal website reference Capture date rules: No restrictions. Additional rules: YES, Photos from previous DPR challenges can be entered in this challenge, but no photos which have won previous DPR challenges, please. Two (2) entries per person allowed, but each entry should be of a different subject. PLEASE vote on other entries, to counteract the sandbaggers. ENTRANTS WHO HAVE ENTERED MANY CHALLENGES, AND HAVE NEVER VOTED, OR HAVE A VERY LOW VOTING SCORE RELATIVE TO THEIR ENTRIES MAY BE DQ'D. Entrants who cheat by sandbagging, vote manipulation, or with multiple DPR accounts will be DQ'd from my challenges. Maximum number of entries per user: 2 Maximum number of entries in challenge: 100

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