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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 photographing roses but they’re quite a challenge to capture in the right angle and the right light. I recently took a lot of photos of roses of many colors and most of them had water drops on them from the morning’s watering. Here is a mix of colors for your enjoyment!
Floral Friday Fotos: Water drops on a pink roseFloral Friday Fotos: Water drops on a white rose’s petalsFloral Friday Fotos: Water drops on a white roseFloral Friday Fotos: Water drops on a orange rose
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is the season of winter. Remember you can click on each photo 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.
Winter in San Diego is quite different from most places in the US. It’s definitely milder but by living inland a bit (about 15 miles from the shore, past the first set of big hills), I get to enjoy more drastic changes in temperature than if I lived right by the coast. So while I can enjoy warm temperatures of 70 to 80 degrees on any given winter day, the winter nights are chilly, usually in the low 30s to 40s, and frost pays us a surprise visit many nights a winter.
I could brag and show you pictures of the warm blue skies and bold flowers we enjoy in the winter, but instead I’ll give you a taste of the cold aspect of winter here. Enjoy!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – frost on ice plants in San Diego
You’ll notice the frost here is more delicate and looks like a thin layer of sugar coating.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – frost on leaves in San DiegoCee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – Frosty ice crystals on twigsCee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – texture of frost on grass
Winter in San Diego also means beautiful sunrises.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter sunrise in San Diego
And beautiful sunsets, like this Christmas 2012 sunset.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – San Diego sunset Christmas 2012
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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.
The manzanita tree is very common in Southern California. It’s one of those trees / shrubs that does well in a dry climate and can resist drought. Manzanita is Spanish for “little apple” and the tree grows large berries the size of, you guessed it, little apples. This is what the tree looks like as a whole. And yes, if you’re wondering, the sky really was that blue the day I took this photo in the mountains. I could just stare at this blue sky the whole day.
Manzanita tree in Southern California
What I find interesting in this manzanita tree is its bark. It tends to peel to reveal new bark underneath, and as it does, the old bark curls up, which makes for a peculiar look. This is what a branch with peeling bark looks like overall.
Manzanita red tree bark peeling off
Here’s a close-up of this manzanita tree bark. I love how the sunlight makes it look even more reddish orange than it really is.
Macro Monday: Close-up of the manzanita tree bark
And if the tree bark underneath is still very new, it looks quite green, a nice contrast with the red peeling bark. You can click on this image for a larger view.
Macro Monday: manzanita tree bark peeling off
I hope you enjoyed my selections for this Macro Monday.
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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “sculpture”. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.
For this theme, I decided to use wood sculptures that were all created by the same person, David Roy from Idyllwild, California. You can find his wood sculptures as you walk around town, in front of people’s homes and local shops, and of course, right in the center of Idyllwild, with this huge town monument.
Travel theme: Sculpture – town monument in Idyllwild, California
This is probably the biggest wood sculpture I saw while visiting his outside workshop. This Buddha statue below is unfinished at this point but it shows this artist doesn’t only carve animals. Not that I don’t like this animal sculptures. They all look great. My own Buddha wood sculpture at home would fit in the hand of this Buddha.
Travel theme: Sculpture – large wood sculpture of Buddha
Check out this lifesize wood sculpture of a bear – impressive!
Travel theme: Sculpture of a lifesize bear
Here’s another bear wood sculpture, this one a little similar to the town monument, but smaller.
Travel theme: Wood sculpture of a lifesize bear and eagle
I also love the various animals he has peeking out of tree trunks. Very cute!
Travel theme: Wood sculpture of lifesize bear cubs in tree trunksTravel theme: Wood sculpture of a lifesize owl in tree trunkTravel theme: Wood sculpture of lifesize raccoons in tree trunk
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Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.
I love pine trees. I love their many varieties, their fragrance, their height and the way their branches stretch out as far as they can. I got to enjoy a lot of pine trees last week and for the first time, I took a closer look at their trunks. As I tried to photograph the many patterns of their bark while at a park, I noticed many trees had sap dripping out of their bark. And that sap itself was worth taking pictures. Here are a few photos of pine tree sap I had time to sort out. I have way more photos to go through, so I hope to do more posts on this in the near future. I hope you enjoy these few photos to start with.
The first thing I noticed when photographing pine tree sap is, it often comes with bugs that are stuck in there. The second thing I noticed is, if you photograph it from the right angle, you’ll see plenty of reflections in it.
Macro Monday: Pine tree sap from up close
Tree sap comes in all shapes and sizes. Check out this long hanging sap, as well as the small hook that’s attached to the tree trunk. How cool is that?
Macro Monday: Pine tree sap hanging from tree
Tree sap can also comes in different colors, depending on the color of the bark on the trunk. Check out this mix of light yellow and red tree sap.
Macro Monday: Red pine tree sap
Of course, tree sap can just drop and harden in drop shapes, but even then, you can see some patterns inside each drop. Lovely.
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