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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 flowerFloral Friday Fotos: close-up of an orange hibiscus flowerMacro of an orange hibiscus flower
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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
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
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
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
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
These flowers are purple and white too but they grow on a large 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
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
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
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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.
Travel theme: Hidden red ladybug
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.
Travel theme: Hidden crab in the sand
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.
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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
Or this 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.
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
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.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Spring wildflowers in San Diego
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
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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 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 liliesClose-up of a yellow water lily
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