Milka Pejovic

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - green junebug beetle

Travel theme: Hidden

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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “hidden”. 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.

Sometimes when I photograph a specific subject in nature, I find something hidden inside or around it. For example, I found this lovely green junebug beetle when I was photographing rose blooms.

Travel theme: Hidden green junebug beetle

I also found this little ladybug crawling on the bottom part of a leaf when I was looking for monarch caterpillars in a large milkweed plant.

I did find the monarch caterpillars eventually, after looking at the milkweed tree for about 10 minutes. They blend in pretty well in the green and yellow leaves.

Travel theme: Hidden monarch caterpillar

I found this cute little crab hiding in the sand at low tide. I bet he couldn’t wait for the tide to come back up.

On my last picture for this theme, my subject is quite hidden. Do you see the leafy sea dragon made out of tree branches and leaves in the tree? It looked like it was trying very hard to take off in the sky.

Travel theme: Hidden leafy sea dragon in a tree

September 10, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Flower Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Plant Photos, Tree PhotosTags: crab in sand, crab on beach, green junebug beetle, large green beetle, leafy sea dragon, monarch caterpillar, nature photography, photography, photos, red ladybug, Travel theme: Hidden, where's my backpack photo challenge 2 Comments

Macro Monday: underneath a blue dragonfly

Macro Monday: under a blue dragonfly

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.

Sometimes you don’t have a lot of options when you photograph your subject. You can’t get to the right angle, the sun in on the wrong side, you can’t get close enough, etc. When I spotted the blue dragonfly below, it stayed put, high perched on a tree branch, and didn’t move anywhere else the whole thing I tried to photograph it. So I decided to photograph it from underneath and hoped something good would come out of it. I think my favorite part of this dragonfly on all photos I got is its intricate wings that seem to glitter in the sunlight. I was lucky to have a bright blue sky to use as a background that day.

Macro Monday: blue dragonfly on tree branch

September 8, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal PhotosTags: blue dragonfly, blue dragonfly wings, dragonfly close-up, glitter wings dragonfly, Macro Monday, nature photography, photography, photos, shiny wings dragonfly 15 Comments

WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “an unusual POV (point of view)”. 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 I tend to notice things around me that most people will walk by, and that’s what I like to photograph. Like this pine tree bark from up close, which looks a lot like a topographic map.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - Patterns and colors on pine tree bark — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Patterns and colors on pine tree bark

Or this manzanita tree bark peeling off.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - manzanita tree bark peeling off — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – manzanita tree bark peeling off

Have you ever seen the spider webs that grass spiders make? When they get wet with the morning dew, they look very cool from up close.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - grass spider webs — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – grass spider webs

I like using the sky as a background and this gray but very bright sky was perfect to make this orange rose stand out and glow.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego

Living in San Diego, I get to see a lot of wildflowers in the spring, especially poppies. For this shot, I used the wooden fence as my main object, with the wildflowers bordering it.

When you live in San Diego, you get to enjoy quite a few things, like a very blue sky on lucky days, and a very blue Pacific ocean. In this last shot below, I used the grasses growing on the sand dunes at Coronado Beach as a foreground, with the Pacific ocean in the background.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - Pacific ocean in the background at Coronado beach — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Pacific ocean in the background at Coronado beach

September 6, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photosTags: blue sky, california wildflowers, Coronado Beach, grass spider webs, grass spiderwebs, manzanita tree bark, orange rose, Pacific ocean, peeling manzanita, pine tree bark, raindrops in spider webs, spring wildflowers, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV 6 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: yellow water lilies

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 love taking pictures of water lilies and showcasing them on this website. Here are a few photos of light yellow waterlilies for this Floral Friday. They were in partial shade and I like the light effect on the lily pads and the water lilies.

Floral Friday Fotos: yellow water lilies

September 5, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, Floral Friday Fotos, lily pads, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, yellow water lilies, yellow water lily, yellow waterlilies, yellow waterlily 4 Comments

The colorful wood duck

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I went to feed the ducks with my kids the other day and since I had brought my camera, I thought I’d trying taking a few pictures. Since last time I photographed ducks, I mostly managed to snap mallard ducks, I thought I’d try to focus on wood ducks this time.

Well, it’s great to attract ducks with duck feed, but it doesn’t help if you want to photograph them. Besides getting suddenly surrounded by several dozens of birds, I quickly realized all they wanted was fight for their food, chasing one another back into the pond and landing on top of each other. All of that while moving a lot and letting me snap lots of blurry pictures. Here are the few decent photos I managed to capture of out 15 minutes of feeding frenzy.