Milka Pejovic

Travel theme: Stones with rain drops on spiderweb

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water

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I’m participating in the LetsBeWild.com Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: Water.

Water can be photographed in so many ways. It can be spread out over an ocean’s length or be contained in a single drop. It can look blue, green, gray, transparent, or reflect what’s around.

My favorite form of water to photograph is water drops, so all the photos below feature water drops for this week’s photo challenge. You may have seen a few of them or none of them on this website already. There are a couple of new ones too.

Remember you can click on each photo to see a larger view.

I shared these raindrops on a spider web over river rocks last week, and I think they fit this theme perfectly.

Close-up of rain drops on a spider web with river rocks underneath

Let's be wild weekly photo challenge - water - wet branch after the rain — Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – water – wet branch after the rain

I took these last two pictures after the rain we had last week in San Diego. I love how tiny droplets outline the leaves and the bougainvillea flower. It almost looks like tiny, shiny diamonds.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water - raindrops on a leaf — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water – raindrops on a leaf

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water - raindrops on a bougainvillea flower — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water – raindrops on a bougainvillea flower

November 2, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Flower Photos, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Rock photosTags: California pictures, let's be wild weekly photo challenge, Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water, photography, photos, rain drops on spider web, rain drops on tree, rain drops photos, raindrop photos, raindrops on spider web 9 Comments

Travel theme: Multicolored sumac fall foliage

Enjoy these fall colors for Halloween

I don’t have any scary monsters to show you for Halloween. Or carved pumpkins. Or skeletons half buried in the backyard. Halloween happens to be my least favorite “holiday”. Sure, you get tons of candy and kids have a lot of fun trick or treating, but the decorations are just creepy, and I speak from personal experience. I set up a giant spiderweb at my front door, along with a very large plastic black widow tangled in it, and I can’t stand spiders. I really love my kids but first thing November 1 morning, that thing is coming down.

I still have it on my list to visit a large pumpkin patch and manage to snap a few good, colorful pictures. In the meantime, I’ll show you more of the beautiful foliage the sumac tree has to offer in San Diego in the fall. I need to go back to this location very soon and take some new pictures. I love the colors on the photos below but I need to work on the framing and the angles. With a little effort, I hope I’ll end up with something really good to show you.

In the meantime, these photos will have to do! Remember you can click on each sumac tree photo below for a larger view.

Fall foliage - sumac tree — Fall foliage – sumac tree

Fall foliage - colorful sumac — Fall foliage – colorful sumac

Fall foliage in San Diego - yellow and orange leaves, red seeds of the sumac tree — Fall foliage in San Diego – yellow and orange leaves, red seeds of the sumac tree

October 31, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photos of San Diego, Tree PhotosTags: California pictures, fall foliage, foliage in San Diego, orange sumac leaves, photography, photos, photos of trees, San Diego, San Diego fall trees, San Diego foliage, sumac berries, sumac foliage, sumac leaves, sumac seeds, sumac tree, trees, yellow sumac leaves 9 Comments

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape

Warning: one of the photos below is not for the faint of heart. Look at your own risk!

I’m participating in the LetsBeWild.com Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: Escape and I decided to have a little fun with this theme.

As usual, you can click on any of the photos below for a larger view.

Successful escape

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape. A fallen tree

Look at this fallen pine tree. It doesn’t look like much, right? Pretty dead, huh? Now look again at its roots, to the left of the trunk, and you’ll notice a brand new tree growing out of it! It’s standing way above the ground, as if floating in the air, with one big root under its trunk linking back to the dead trunk. Now, if that’s not a successful escape from death, I don’t know what to call it.

Unsuccessful escape

I took this photo with my cell phone camera so the quality is not great, but I think the subjects are fascinating. This happened in a rattlesnake exhibit at the San Diego Zoo. I understand they gas the mice they feed the snakes, so they’re still alive (snakes don’t eat dead animals). The feeding takes place once a week so I guess this was my lucky day. No chance of escape there!

Happy Monday!

October 29, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, California Photos, Forest Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Tree PhotosTags: California pictures, dead tree, fallen tree, let's be wild weekly photo challenge, Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape, photography, photos, photos of trees, pine tree, rattlesnake, San Diego Zoo, snake eating mice, snake eating mouse 12 Comments

Rain drops sitting on spider web with river rocks as background

Not your typical rain drops on spider web – Part 2

If you missed my previous post, you should read the story about these not so typical rain drops on spider webs.

Here are a few more close-up photos of these rain drops sitting on a spider web, with the river rocks as the background. Remember you can click on the photos below for a larger view of the rain drops.

I hope you like these photos. Personally, the last one is my very favorite and I may consider including it in my 2014 photo calendar when it’s time to pick.

October 26, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Photography, Rock photosTags: photography, photos, photos of rain drops, photos of rain drops on spider web, photos of raindrops, photos of river rocks, rain drop photos on spider web, rain drops, raindrop photos, river rock photos 10 Comments

Rain drops on a spider web over river rocks

Not your typical rain drops on spider web – Part 1

We don’t get a lot of rain in San Diego. In fact, it didn’t rain for about six months until this past week, when first we had a few showers for a day, then slow but steady rain the next day. I love to see nature awaken with the welcome moisture, after looking stagnant for so long. And rain drops can be a great opportunity to snap some interesting pictures.

I first tried photos of rain drops on leaves and a few flowers. The results were OK but not too impressive. But then, I spotted something unusual in my backyard among the rocks and it got my attention right away. I knew I had to run inside and grab my camera.

Now, you need to know I hate spiders. I didn’t say dislike, I said hate. I can’t stand those things crawling around my house, my sanctuary. If they enter, they must die. I have no Buddhist thoughts whatsoever when it comes to spiders in my home. I’ll tolerate them outside (as long as they don’t look like they’re trying to get inside my house) and their spider webs can be interesting to look at. Well, except for the black widow spider webs, which are a complete mess.

Rain drops can make a spider web look quite pretty. I’m sure you’ve seen hundred of photos of wet spider webs, covered with fresh rain drops. But I’ve got something different for you. This is what caught my attention: rain drops on a spider web over river rocks. Remember you can click on any of the photos below for a larger view.

Here’s another photo of these rain drops on the spider web with the river rocks as the background, a little closer this time.

What do you think? Do you like it?

I have a couple more photos of these rain drops and you’ll be able to see them later this week. Make sure you subscribe to this blog in the left sidebar to receive regular updates.