Bloom Photos – Page 12

Close-up of a hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Macro Monday: the hairpin banksia shrub and its blooms

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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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I ran across this shrub over the weekend and I had to take a few pictures of its very peculiar blooms. This is the hairpin banksia shrub, part of the protea family, originally from South Africa.

Take a closer look at the shrub’s blooms. I don’t even know if you could call them flowers. Aren’t they something?

Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Here’s an ever closer look at a hairpin banksia bloom. Nature sure had fun with this one!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you

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

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I love anything colorful and I enjoy most colors out there, but I know that pink, purple and blue tend to be my favorite. I love wearing these colors and I enjoy spotting them in nature as well. Here are a few of my favorite colors that make me happy every time Mother Nature uses them on her color palette.

This has to be my most favorite color to find in nature: magenta. It really says, I’m happy!

Magenta and purple together look very pretty too.

Who can argue that all shades of purple look beautiful?

The hue of you - purple wildflowers — The hue of you – purple wildflowers

The hue of you: purple flower looks like fireworks

And fuchsia is nature’s burst of laughter, as in this pink water lily.

October 18, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: lampranthus productus iceplant, magenta flowers, pink manuka flowers, pink water lilies, pink water lily, purple wildflower, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you 21 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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If you need a little splash of color today, I have just the thing for you – a bright yellow sunflower I photographed at a local pumpkin patch earlier this week.

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

I love how the center of the sunflower expands as the sunflower seeds grow inside of it.

It’s amazing how large the center grows as the seeds develop.

October 10, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, bright yellow sunflower, center of the sunflower, Floral Friday Fotos, heart of the sunflower, photography, photos, photos of blooms, sunflower close-up, sunflower macro, sunflower seeds, sunflower seeds growing 13 Comments

Help me pick photos for my 2014 water lily calendar

I want to thank everyone for all the feedback on my photo selections for my water theme 2014 photo calendar. Today, I’m asking your feedback on photos I’d like to include in my 2014 calendar on water lilies. Just tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep or get rid of. I appreciate your honest feedback.

Remember that everyone who comments on one of my 2014 photo calendar related posts will be entered in a drawing to win one of my calendars (you can pick your favorite theme). The only requirement I have for the winner is to be located within the U.S., mostly because the calendar will contain U.S. holidays and it will be more helpful to that person. For every calendar post that you comment on, you will earn one drawing entry (one entry per blog post, not per comment). I’m planning to give away one calendar to a lucky winner, and possibly another one to the person who comes in second, depending on the number of participants.

You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow and view everything in a larger format. Please include your comments into the post comment section directly, not on individual photos, to make it easier for everyone to see your feedback.

There are several photos in this gallery I’ve never featured on this website before, so I hope you notice them as nice additions. Finally, I know one of these photos is a lotus and not a water lily, so I’d like your opinion on including it in the calendar or not.

Pink water lily

Bright pink water lilies

Floral Friday Fotos: lotus flower and lotus seed head

Floral Friday Fotos: yellow water lilies

Close-up of a yellow water lily

Pink water lily and lily pads at the pond in Balboa Park, San Diego

Light pink water lilies

Floral Friday Fotos: pink water lilies

Three waterlilies

Light pink water lily

Floral Friday Fotos: pink water lily

Close-up of bright pink water lily

Macro Monday: pink water lily with bright yellow center

Close-up of a pink water lily

October 8, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Forest Photos, Water photosTags: 2014 calendar water lilies, 2014 calendar water lily, 2014 photo calendar, blooms, lotus flower, lotus seed head, lotus seed pod, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of water lilies, water lilies calendar, water lily calendar, water lily photos 12 Comments

“Capture The Colour 2013” photo contest

Fellow photography blogger Cee recommended me for the “Capture The Colour 2013” photo contest in her post yesterday. When I read the contest’s terms & conditions, I realized the contest was opened until October 9, 2013. That’s tomorrow, yikes! Since the contest holder is in the UK, I figured I had very little time to enter.

Here are my entries for each color theme: yellow, green, blue, red and white. I’m also supposed to recommend this contest to 5 fellow bloggers so here’s my pick. If I didn’t name you and still want to participate, you have a few more hours to do so.

Licht Years
Northwest Frame of Mind
The Beauty Along The Road
Travel and Trifles
Clicky Chick Creates (fellow San Diegan!)

Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

YELLOW – I took this photo of a beautiful sunflower just yesterday. This is my very first sunflower and I tried to fill my frame with it as much as I could, letting the great blue sky fill the rest.

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - yellow sunflower — Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – yellow sunflower

GREEN – this photo of a raindrop on a grass blade seems to be a favorite so it was an easy choice for the green theme. I love the grass blade reflections in the raindrop.