Greetings ASEAN Hivers, this week's challenge is centered around photography, blue specifically, so get out cameras and phones and start snapping.

🐠 Photography: Into The Blue 👖

👨‍💻 Week #153 👩‍💻

^{April 7th ➡️ April 14th, 2025}

     Blue is a calming color, and perhaps an appropriate color this photography themed challenge. My family and I are approaching the date where we must leave to the USA before our visas expire, and the xenophobia and immigration situation is very concerning to me, so blue, blue, blue, bring on the blue. I want to see blue skies, eyes, and anything flies.

     Smartphones, cameras, makes no difference to me, get out there and find the color blue, start snapping, and don't forget a good story is always a compliment to a post, even one focused on photography. You don't need to paint yourself blue for this one, but I won't stop anyone that decides it's a good idea. The more important thing would be to document it for us all. Alright, enough rambling, I think this challenge is simple enough.

Week #152 ASEAN Hive Challenge Winners
🥾 Uncharted Backyard Destinations 🛥️

     This challenge was a lot of fun, and among the entries are some folks who managed to fulfill uncharted destinations for this occasion as well as someone who managed to virtually insert themselves into some hopeful future destinations. From the Philippines to Malaysia and beyond, there are a lot places here worth considering among our three winners. For me, I hope to one day visit East Timor, don't know why, just don't know anyone that has been there and that's a good enough reason to go for me.

1st Prize 🏆 10% Beneficiary & 150 Ecency Points

"Uncharted Backyard Destinations" Week#152 Challenge: "Visiting and Exploring Fort San Pedro in Cebu City The Oldest and Smallest Fort in The Philippines"
by: @ronimarie82

Hello! Hello!.. Hi my dearest Hiver’s! How is everybody? How was your weekend? Did you go out and have some fun with your loved ones? For today’s blog let me share with you all how we spend our weekend visiting and exploring a tourist spot here in Cebu Philippines. Actually I only heard and saw this place in the History book before in my high school days. This place catches my attention because this is renowned as the oldest and Smallest Fort in the Philippines.

2nd Prize 🥈 6% Beneficiary & 100 Ecency Points

My Uncharted Travel Plans Sooner or Later
by: @sarimanok

Hello there Hivers! Any plans for summer? Oh well, I have lots in my mind but they still remain uncharted! Anyways, I hope that it will materialized one of these days. I have been hoping to return to my native land in Mindanao but I still couldn't do it due to some priorities. But it's okay, these plans can wait. Recently, my bestie since our elementary grade went home from the US to spend her holiday in Iligan City. She's a retired PT in New Jersey and now enjoying the benefits of being a senior citizen.

3rd Prize 🥉 4% Beneficiary & 75 Ecency Points

Challenge "Uncharted Backyard Destinations" "Exploring Thean Hou Temple: My First Visit to a Majestic Chinese Temple and One of Famous Tourist Spots in Malaysia"
by: @anlizapasaje1234

Hello, all beautiful people here, last Sunday my sister-in-law she also a pinay her husband and my husband are cousins, then one more friend of mind we decided to go around just like a tourist, the first destination is the famous Hindu temple which I already posted share to world mappin community. We just wanted to visit different temples that are open to tourists’ people, and for my 15 years here I have never gone to a Chinese temple since my sister-in-law and her husband doing tourist guides she brought me a place that was open for tourists the temple of Chinese.

👨‍💻 Week #153 Challenge 👩‍💻

Sponsored by

@JustinParke

🏆 1st prize - 10% Post Beneficiary & 150 Ecency Points
🥈 2nd prize 6% Post Beneficiary & 100 Ecency Points
🥉 3rd prize - 4% Post Beneficiary & 75 Ecency Points

👨‍⚖️ Challenge Rules ⚖️

• post body must contain a minimum 250+ word count
• entry must be published in the ASEAN Hive Community
• first tag must be #aseanhive
• participants must share their post link in the comments section below
• mention the ASEAN Hive Challenge "Photography: Into The Blue" somewhere in your title or post body
• submit entries before this post countdown is finished

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