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WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated

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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “from lines to patterns”. You can click on the photos below for a larger view.

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I love the saturated colors that nature displays all around. Close-up shots help focusing on that saturation. Enjoy the show!

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - Bottle brush tree flowers — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – Bottle brush tree flowers

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - Red hibiscus flower — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – Red hibiscus flower

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - pistils inside a yellow rose — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – pistils inside a yellow rose

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - iceplant blooms — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – iceplant blooms

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - Orange Picotee tuberous begonia - begonia tuberhybrida — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – Orange Picotee tuberous begonia – begonia tuberhybrida

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - green junebug beetle — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – green junebug beetle

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated - purple and white wildflowers with morning dew — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – purple and white wildflowers with morning dew

Cee’s fun foto challenge: the color brown and sepia tones

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.

These two brown bear brothers are just the right color for this theme.

Cee's Fun Foto challenge: brown bears — Cee’s Fun Foto challenge: brown bears

Even a bear sculpture, not a real bear, can be brown.

Cee's Fun Foto challenge: brown bear sculpture — Cee’s Fun Foto challenge: brown bear sculpture

I captured this little snail one morning with my phone camera.

Cee's fun foto challenge: brown snail — Cee’s fun foto challenge: brown snail

Pine tree sap can go from yellow to brown. It almost looks like caramel.

Cee's fun foto challenge: brown tree bark and tree sap — Cee’s fun foto challenge: brown tree bark and tree sap

This is a great gray owl, but if you look at it, it’s actually quite brown. And beautiful.

Talking about owls, this is the giant owl butterfly. Lots of brown there.

My last photo for this theme features a swallow’s nest, made out of mud. It’s a messy job but those swallows are relentless at building.

September 25, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Tree PhotosTags: brown bear, brown bear wood sculpture, Cee's fun foto challenge: brown and sepia, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, giant owl butterfly, great gray owl, pine tree sap, snail shell, swallow mud nest, swallows nest 5 Comments

Travel theme: Through

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

Let me take you on a tour through the forest, one of my favorite activities. Sometimes the trail going through is pretty narrow.

And sometimes it is quite wide.

Pine trees have so many thick branches that it can be hard to see the blue sky through them.

Travel theme: the blue sky through the branches

Pine tree sap is see through, although it tends to reflect a lot of its surroundings too.

Sometimes when you hike in a park, a river runs through it.

All the way through.

Forests are full of plants and animals, including insects. Insect wings are usually see through, including the wings of this blue dragonfly.

Travel theme: see through wings of a dragonfly

September 24, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Photography, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: blue dragonfly wings, blurry water photos, hiking trail, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of trees, pine tree branches, pine tree sap, river photos, Travel theme photo challenge, Travel theme: Through, where's my backpack travel theme 17 Comments

Macro Monday: green praying mantis

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. 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.

My kids and I were observing a large bumblebee collecting nectar in a pink flower yesterday when my oldest spotted this green praying mantis on the plant’s leaves right underneath. I first took this photo and unfortunately the praying mantis wasn’t sitting at the right angle and the bright sunlight reflected a lot from it.

After it got tired of me snapping pictures up close, the insect moved around a bit. Just enough for me to get a much better picture. Now, I’m usually not the self-bragging type but this praying mantis below looks darn good, especially for my first time capturing this insect!

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September 22, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal PhotosTags: green praying mantis, Macro Monday, nature photography, photography, photos, praying mantis 22 Comments

WordPress weekly photo challenge: from lines to patterns

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “from lines to patterns”. 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 love the color patterns created by the lines on this monarch caterpillar.