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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “beaches”. Living in San Diego, it’s easy for me to get to the beach, yet I don’t do it very often. I love the fresh air and the wind, the smell of the ocean. I can’t stand the sand in my shoes and driving around for a parking spot. You can’t have it all!
I featured most of the photos below on my site before but I thought it’d be nice to put them together in a single post on beaches, in this case Coronado Beach. I’m using the gallery format for this today. Click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach
Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach
Travel theme – beaches
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves
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I’m going to use this photo challenge as an opportunity to feature a few more of the rose photos I took this past weekend at the rose garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see the other rose photos here and here.
Here’s another multicolored rose that featured a pleasant rose fragrance. It helps that it’s also very pretty to look at.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a multicolored rose
I loved the fragrance of the next rose. It had a very delicate and pure scent. Mmmmmm…
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a fragrant rose
Other flowers can smell very look, including lavender, which comes in many varieties and sizes.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of lavender
One scent I really enjoy is the one of wet dirt and grass after the rain. This after the rain scent is not too common in San Diego so I love it when it happens.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain
My favorite flower fragrance is lilac blossoms. Unfortunately common lilacs don’t like the San Diego hot and dry weather too much, so we find a different type here in nature called the Ramona lilac. Its scent is very, very light but it still looks pretty.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms
For my last photo, I’ll share one of my favorite scents: the smell of the ocean, here at Coronado Beach. I love the mix of iodine, salt and seaweed. Can you smell it?
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I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is change. I could pick from so many different types of photos to illustrate this theme. The first thing that actually came to mind was the change of spring and the rebirth of nature around me. But then I remembered this past weekend and my visit to Coronado Beach to see the Pacific Ocean.
I love watching the ocean waves as they come and go. I could sit on the sand and watch them for hours. If you don’t pay close attention, you’ll think the waves all look the same, but they really change a lot from one to the next. They start and break in different places. Each is of a different height. The rolls never seem to appear in the same spot. Though the ocean seems constant, it’s constantly changing. Just like me!
I used my Canon Powershot G1 X for these shots with a polarizer filter and I love how the photos came out. Remember you can click on each photo to see a larger view. Enjoy!
I love watching the waves slowly form…
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean
Until they reach their highest point…
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the constant waves of the ocean
And they finally break to form a nice roll.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves
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I’m participating in the online adventure travel and outdoor photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s Challenge is: Overlooked. This theme is perfect for me because this is the type of photos I take most often. Photos of things that are right in front of your nose but that nobody notices even when they walk right by it. Here are a few photos of beautiful things that can be overlooked, some of them brand new, and others I’ve used in previous posts on this site.
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I took this first photo last week and as I was pressing the shutter, I could see there was something peculiar about that bee. When I opened the photo file on my computer, I was in awe. Did you know that bees have bags, or pollen baskets, on their legs to carry the nectar they collect? This worker bee had obviously been very busy at collecting nectar from the fullness of its bags. How cool is that? None of the people walking by while I was taking pictures noticed this bee or all the others next to it.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked bee carries bags of nectar on legs
I took the next photo just this past weekend at the beach in Coronado, California. This little crab was half buried in the wet sand at low tide. Dozens of people walked right by it without ever noticing it. What a pity.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked crab in the sand
Did you know that grass is fuzzy? Even when you take a close-up photo of a grass blade, you may not see it, unless the grass is covered with morning dew. Then the fuzz of the grass really stands out.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked fuzzy grass covered with dew
This last photo features a red-tailed hawk sitting on the highest branch of a very tall Sycamore tree. Unless you looked up, you wouldn’t know it was there.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked red-tailed hawk in a tree
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Water is a great medium for reflections so it will be featured in every photo below, but maybe not always in the way you expect it to be. Remember you can click on each photo to see it in a larger format.
My favorite photo when it comes to reflection is the first one below. I took it at the San Diego Botanic garden and it features a green heron standing above some very still water, so the reflection is almost identical to the original subject.
Let’s be wild photo challenge – reflections of a green heron
The next photo shows the reflection of the sun rays on the wet sand at Coronado Beach, in San Diego. Can you guess it’s my favorite beach here?
Let’s be wild photo challenge – reflections at Coronado Beach, San Diego, California
I displayed the next photo in yesterday’s post but I want to share it here too, as I love the reflection of the blades of grass in the large water drop. I can’t help admiring the beautiful little treasures that nature leaves everywhere for us to discover.
Let’s be wild photo challenge – reflections in a water drop
As for the last photo I’ll display for this theme, I took it last weekend at Dos Picos County Park, in Ramona, California. I love the peace and quiet effect of this pond. As you can see, it was a beautiful day.
Let’s be wild photo challenge – reflections at the pond
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