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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is “the color of your choice – pick one color”. I thought of picking blue, then purple, then yellow, then red, but finally I settled on pink. Why? Because I’m a girl and I like pink. And living with two boys, I live life without pink, except for the clothes in my closet. Pink can be soft or bold, in your face or more subtle. Either way, you can’t go wrong with pink.
So here’s a splash of pink for you in slideshow format. You can click on any picture to view all of them in a larger format.
What’s your favorite color?
Macro Monday: Succulent with pink flower blooms
Travel theme: delicate rain drops on rose tree leaves
Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala
Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you – lampranthus productus iceplant
Pink sky at sunset in San Diego
challenges of photographing a great sunset
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red hibiscus flower
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bee on a wild rose in Idyllwild
Pink water lily and lily pads at the pond in Balboa Park, San Diego
Pink water lilies at San Diego’s Balboa Park
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Reflections – Water lilies at Balboa Park in San Diego
Cee’s fun foto challenge: all one color – bright pink flowers
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Water – raindrops on a bougainvillea flower
Bee on a wild rose
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Focus – Sweet pea flower in Idyllwild, California
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Well, this is quite a challenge for me because I like to keep my photos as simple as possible, with the least distraction. Most often, a large amount of colors can make a photo look busy. I think I managed to find a few photos that fit this theme well. Let me know what you think.
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Here’s a colorful tiger swallowtail butterfly on bougainvillea: yellow, black, red, green and blue.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors – tiger swallowtail butterfly
I love California wildflowers and I can’t wait to see them pop up everywhere in the spring. Here’s yellow, red, purple, pink and green.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors – California wildflowers
The sumac tree can display very colorful foliage in the fall. Here’s some yellow, orange, red, green and blue.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors – sumac foliage
The next photo is a lemon blossom. It’s featured in my 2013 photo calendar for the month of February. Here’s white, pink, green and blue.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors – lemon blossoms
Finally, what’s more colorful than Christmas lights? Oh, so many colors… Ho, ho, ho!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors – Colorful Christmas lights
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love taking photos of flowers and plants, but I’m terrible at identifying what they are. I recently featured some beautiful pink and fuzzy flowers but I had no idea what they were at first. When I posted the photo on my Facebook page, someone kindly told me the flowers belonged to the New Zealand Christmas Tree. After googling that tree, I was pretty convinced and so I wrote my post around this specific tree.
Now, here’s the catch. I visited the San Diego Botanic Garden this weekend and I saw fuzzy flowers that looked just like the pink ones but they were white. So I looked at the tree label and it said… White powder puff – Calliandra Haematocephala. Ha!
Powder puff tree – calliandra haematocephala
The powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala – can feature fuzzy flowers that are either pink or white depending on its variety. The powder puff shaped flowers are beautiful in either color, so for this Macro Monday post, I’m featuring both colors for your enjoyment.
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Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala
The berries you see on the photo are not edible. They actually are the flower buds before they bloom. Aren’t these blooms pretty?
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. This is my first time and I hope to participate every week if I have the photos to contribute.
For this macro theme, I’m featuring a couple of photos I took this weekend at the San Diego Zoo. The weather was mostly cloudy but it still made for some decent lighting to capture these close-up shots.
As always, you can click on each image to view it in a larger format. Enjoy!
Macro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra HaematocephalaMacro Monday: pink fuzzy flowers and dark red berries of the Calliandra Haematocephala
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It took me a little time to figure out what type of photos I could take to best represent this theme. At first, I thought photographing a sunrise or a sunset in progression would be perfect. Unfortunately we haven’t had the best weather recently, so this opportunity has not presented itself in time.
So I’m offering you my second pick for this ongoing theme: bees, hard at work on a variety of flowers. What I find most amazing about bees is how relentless they are at doing their job, even when you stand right next to them for a photo opportunity. Their work is ongoing and uninterrupted and I love watching them and capturing them on camera.
Remember you can click on each photo so you can see it in a larger size.
I took this photo at Balboa Park in San Diego earlier this week. These are pear blossoms from ornamental pear trees. The bees were super busy collecting nectar from the thousands of flowers available to them.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on the pear blossoms at San Diego Balboa Park
This next photo is also from Balboa Park. Apparently the bees weren’t just busy with the pear blossoms. They were also hard at work on these beautiful aloe flowers. You could see the ongoing flow of bees all over these flowers.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on aloe flowers at Balboa Park in San Diego
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bees on cactus flowers at the San Diego Botanic Garden
This next photo is from Idyllwild, California. This bee’s ongoing nectar collection on this wild rose made for a great photo opportunity.
Sunday Post: Ongoing – bee on a wild rose in Idyllwild
My last photo is not of a bee but a tiger swallowtail butterfly. Just like bees, butterflies go from one flower to the next to collect nectar. This is an ongoing job and gives me an opportunity to chase them around to try to get a good shot. This one ended up on my 2013 photo calendar.
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