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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “sea”. 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 refreshing effect of the sea and its powerful waves full of ions.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
The sea is a large feeding ground for humans, as well as animals, including this seagull looking for a small fish or a tasty clam.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – seagull looking for food
Sea stars are quite interesting sea creatures. They hang on to a rock for the majority of their lives and seem perfectly content just doing that.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – colorful sea star
The sea has a lot to offer from above, but there’s so much to see underneath, like these cute seahorses.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – seahorses hiding in seaweed
Sea jellies are quite amazing too. No brain, no heart, and yet they float around the sea as they find food to eat. I just don’t like them to be in the water when I’m swimming.
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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Which Way Challenge to show actual roads, bridges, walkways, tracks, etc, rather than the people on them. For this challenge, I decided to share two photos of trails I walked on recently. You can click on the images for a larger view.
Which way to go? Well, the way the sign says, of course!
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: follow the trail sign
I love walking through a forest of pine trees. The shade is welcome in the summer and the smell of pine tree sap and needles is invigorating.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: hiking trail among pine trees
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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “simplicity”. 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.
I try to keep my photos as simple as possible and that’s why I like doing macros a lot, focusing on one subject and keeping the background a blur. But I also like the simplicity of some landscapes, especially when they involve water. For this theme, I decided to feature the beautiful Lake Hemet in Southern California. Considering the small lakes and ponds we have in the San Diego area, Lake Hemet is a lot larger. There’s something very peaceful about standing in front of a large body of water. Here’s just one little part of it.
Travel theme: Simplicity of Lake Hemet, Southern California
I like the simple landscape around the lake: the shore, some grass and then trees and a mix of shrubs and brush.
Travel theme: Simplicity of Lake Hemet
Even in hot weather, you can enjoy a little breeze right by the lake, which causes a few simple ripples by the shore.
Travel theme: Simplicity of lake water ripples
The trees around the lake provide a welcome amount of shade. In the morning, before the sun rays heat up the atmosphere, you can witness a beautiful blue sky – a sign of the purity of the air at 4000 feet away from most civilization. Simple and beautiful.
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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “the golden hour”, that first or last hour of the day that gives such a special light to everything around. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.
I love the glowing effect the rising sun rays give to these puffy clouds.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – clouds at sunrise
On a winter morning, I love how the sun rays do their best to shine through the fog and make the fall foliage turn gold.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – fall foliage glows through the fog
The morning sunlight right after a night of rain has an interesting effect too. I love to capture that special light on raindrops.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – morning sunlight lights up raindrops on leaves
We don’t get a lot of frost in San Diego and when we do, it starts to disappear as soon as the sun comes out and exposes its warm rays. So it’s a race against time to capture the frost in the sunlight before it melts.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – morning sunlight lights up raindrops on leaves – frost on the edge of a leaf
The late afternoon sun in the winter can give a nice golden look to yellow leaves, and the scene looks even nicer if you can capture the moon in the background.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – the sun lights up fall leaves with the moon in the background
Finally I like how bright the sky can still be while everything on the ground is getting darker as the sun sets.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – bright skies as the sun sets
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Nature is full of fleeting moments and that’s what makes it challenging to photograph. Of course, animals are the hardest to photograph as they may be right in front of you one moment, and gone by the time you pull your camera out. Bees collecting nectar are a good example of a fleeting moment. I got lucky with this shot, where I managed to photograph a bee collecting nectar in the bags on its legs.
Dragonflies are notorious for flying around for hours without taking a break. I got lucky with this orange dragonfly who decided to take a very short rest on a tree branch not far from me.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – orange dragonfly resting on a tree branch
This baby koala was a nice capture of the fleeting moment a couple of weeks ago, as he turned his head towards me for a few minutes so I could capture this photo.
Butterflies are the perfect expression of a fleeting moment, as they’re often difficult to capture since they don’t stand still for too long. I was lucky to get a photo of this giant owl butterfly.
Not just animals are fleeting in nature. The morning dew is another example of something that doesn’t last a long time and is gone by the time the sun is out and shining.
Our San Diego winters don’t get very cold but we manage to get frost several days a year. The frost melts as soon as the winter sun rays warm it up, but it’s very pretty while it lasts.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – frost on ice plants in San DiegoWordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – frost on leaves in San Diego
I think the most fleeting moments in nature are sunrise and sunset. They last only a few minutes but set the tone for the day and for the night.
A beautiful sunrise can inspire you for a whole day.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – winter sunrise in San Diego
A gorgeous sunset can give you hope for the next day.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – San Diego sunset Christmas 2012
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