Travel theme: Multicolored

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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “multicolored”. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

Just in time for the fall season, here’s some colorful sumac tree foliage. With a beautiful bright blue sky as the complimentary background, this photo is very multicolored.

Travel theme: Multicolored sumac fall foliage
Travel theme: Multicolored sumac fall foliage

I love the bright red berries of the Cotoneaster Lacteus contrasting with the bush’s green and crimson leaves.

Travel theme: Multicolored Cotoneaster Lacteus
Travel theme: Multicolored Cotoneaster Lacteus

This bright orange protea pincushion flower enjoys the company of purple lavender, green leafed trees and a California blue sky in the background.

Travel theme: Multicolored - Orange protea pincushion flower and purple lavender
Travel theme: Multicolored – Orange protea pincushion flower and purple lavender

I’m not sure what these flowers are called (some type of iceplant blooms) but I love how the petals change colors from one end to the other.

Travel theme: Multicolored flowers
Travel theme: Multicolored flowers

If you’re ever wondered what a multicolored rose looks like, here it is.

Travel theme: Multicolored rose
Travel theme: Multicolored rose

I love this purple and yellow lily. Two beautiful colors right next to each other.

Travel theme: Multicolored lily
Travel theme: Multicolored lily

And now for the last photo, here are the coolest multicolored fireworks I saw this year for the 4th of July.

Travel theme: Multicolored fireworks
Travel theme: Multicolored fireworks

Macro Monday: pink water lily with bright yellow center

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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.

I hope you enjoy this beautiful pink water lily. I love the bright yellow center of water lilies, with their thick pistils sticking right up.

Macro Monday: pink water lily with bright yellow center
Macro Monday: pink water lily with bright yellow center
Close-up of a pink water lily
Close-up of a pink water lily

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Inside

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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “inside”. You can click on the photos below for a larger view. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

Check out these artificial grass blades inside this bubble. Some actually went through all the way to the other side and still that bubble didn’t pop.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: grass blades inside a bubble
WordPress weekly photo challenge: grass blades inside a bubble

Have you ever looked a the pistils inside a rose? They’re quite amazing.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: pistils inside a yellow rose
WordPress weekly photo challenge: pistils inside a yellow rose

Here’s a blue damselfly locked inside my house, longing to get out. It wasn’t very helpful in its release, but I still managed to get it back outside.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Inside - Blue damselfly
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Inside – Blue damselfly

Here’s a busy bee collecting nectar from these yellow flowers and putting it inside the bags on its legs. Nature is so well designed!

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Inside - bee collecting nectar inside bags
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Inside – bee collecting nectar inside bags

Finally here’s a visitor inside this yellow rose – a green Junebug beetle.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Junebug beetle inside rose
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Junebug beetle inside rose

Floral Friday Fotos: orange hibiscus flower

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Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photos below to see them in a larger format. If you enjoy my images, I encourage you to subscribe and receive updates when I post new photos, usually 3 to 5 times a week.

I find hibiscus flowers a challenge to photograph. I love their bright colors and signature shape but I never know which angle looks best to capture them. So here are a few angles I used to photograph orange hibiscus flowers. And I still don’t know which one I prefer in the end. Maybe you can help.  🙂

Floral Friday Fotos: orange hibiscus flower
Floral Friday Fotos: orange hibiscus flower
Floral Friday Fotos: close-up of an orange hibiscus flower
Floral Friday Fotos: close-up of an orange hibiscus flower
Macro of an orange hibiscus flower
Macro of an orange hibiscus flower

Cee’s fun foto challenge: white and purple

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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring the color white and purple. You can click on the photos below for a larger view. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Nature LOVES to put purple and white right next to each other, especially when it comes to flowers. These purple water lilies with white centers are just beautiful. You can view more photos of these purple waterlilies here.

Cee's fun foto challenge: white and purple water lilies
Cee’s fun foto challenge: white and purple water lilies

Here’s an amazing white and purple flower with long, thin petals that blooms on a shrub with almost white leaves. You can view more of these purple flowers here.

Cee's fun foto challenge: white and purple flower with skinny petals
Cee’s fun foto challenge: white and purple flower with skinny petals

Wisteria blooms are some of my favorite and their white and purple clusters dangling down the trellis are gorgeous.

Cee's fun foto challenge: white and purple White and purple wisteria flowers
Cee’s fun foto challenge: white and purple White and purple wisteria flowers

I love these tiny purple and white wildflowers I found on the side of a hiking trail this past spring.

Tiny purple and white wildflowers
Tiny purple and white wildflowers

Here is a different type of wildflowers, with some morning dew on them. They are still small, purple and white.

Tiny purple and white wildflowers with morning dew
Tiny purple and white wildflowers with morning dew

These flowers are purple and white too but they grow on a large shrub.

Purple and white flowers on a shrub
Purple and white flowers on a shrub

Sometimes you find purple flowers right next to white flowers, like this assortment of spring wildflowers.

Purple and white wildflowers
Purple and white wildflowers

California lupine is another type of wildflower, this one much larger than the ones I shared above.

Purple and white California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park
Purple and white California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park

Finally, milkweed flowers are blue but the pod leaves they come out of are purple and white.

Cee's fun foto challenge: white and purple milkweed flower
Cee’s fun foto challenge: white and purple milkweed flower