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A word a week challenge: atmospheric - moon behind the clouds

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Eerie

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

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These rain clouds creeping and crawling over the hills of San Diego during a winter storm always look eerie.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie crawling clouds during a San Diego rainstorm — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie crawling clouds during a San Diego rainstorm

The landscape in front of those hills was just as eerie looking as the clouds on that day – out of this world.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California

There’s something quite eerie about fog, don’t you think?

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie foggy morning in San Diego — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie foggy morning in San Diego

Especially when the fog is very thick and you can barely see a few feet away.

I love the eerie effect of a full moon creeping out from between the clouds. Can you hear the coyotes howl?

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie full moon coming out from behind the clouds — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie full moon coming out from behind the clouds

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: moon at the horizon

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Horizon

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

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Here’s the horizon at Coronado Beach, hidden between the dune grasses.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach — WordPress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

I enjoyed taking this photo of pink grasses as they shoot across the horizon in the foreground.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon with pink grasses in the foreground — WordPress weekly photo challenge: horizon with pink grasses in the foreground

Here’s the horizon on top of the mountains in Idyllwild, California. On that clear day, you could see up to 100 miles away.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Idyllwild Park, California — WordPress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Idyllwild Park, California

How about this moon going up the horizon in the daylight?

I love the beauty of the horizon at sunrise.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at sunrise — WordPress weekly photo challenge: horizon at sunrise

And at sunset.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at sunset — WordPress weekly photo challenge: horizon at sunset

October 25, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Sky Photos, Sunrise Photos, Sunset photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: California pictures, Coronado Beach, horizon photos, horizon pictures, idyllwild california, moon over the horizon, nature photography, pink grasses, San Diego, sunrise in San Diego, sunrise photos, sunset in San Diego, sunset photos, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Horizon 15 Comments

Stones covered with raindrops on spiderweb

Help me pick photos for my 2014 water theme calendar… and maybe win a calendar?

I want to thank everyone who gave me such positive feedback on my post earlier this week regarding themes for my 2014 photo calendars. Today, I’d like to showcase a selection of water theme photos and ask you to choose which ones should make it into the calendar. It might be easier to tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep. Just give me your honest feedback and help me make great choices.

Now, here’s the catch. 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.

Sell me which photos I should include, or not, in this water theme 2014 photo calendar. 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. I know some of the photos are in portrait instead of landscape format, but I’d go back to the original and crop it the right way if it’s a favorite.

Are you ready? Go!

Pink waterlily reflecting in the water

Floral Friday Fotos: Pink water lilies and lily pads

Three waterlilies

Travel theme: Light pink rose petals

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – seagull looking for food

Female mallard duck

Macro Monday: close-up of raindrops on yellow rose

WordPress weekly photo challenge: From above – Raindrops on a spider web

Travel theme: delicate rain drop on grass

A word a week – violet wildflowers with dew drops

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – yellow lemon against blue sky

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach

Cee's fun foto challenge: raindrops on green branches

Three raindrops

Travel theme: a river runs through it

Raindrops hanging from a thuja tree branch

Frost on ice plants in San Diego

Frosty ice crystals on a leaf

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – Frosty ice crystals on twigs

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

Travel theme: a river runs through it

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – texture of frost on grass

Delicate dew drops on spider web

Sunday Post: Concept – close-up of raindrops on spider webs on green grass

Stones covered with raindrops on spiderweb

Travel theme: Stones with rain drops on spiderweb

Rain drops on a spider web over river rocks

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

Three wet lemons on the tree

Macro Monday: Ice plant flower

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – colorful sea star

Travel theme: delicate frost on leaves

October 3, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Fruit Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photosTags: 2014 12-month photo calendar, 2014 nature photography calendar, 2014 photo calendar, 2014 water theme calendar, nature photography, rain drops, raindrops, water drops 19 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

WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “an unusual POV (point of view)”. 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 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 — 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 — 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.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - grass spider webs — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – grass spider webs

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 — 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.

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.