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Stones covered with raindrops on spiderweb

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

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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

I need your input on my 2014 photo calendar

Hey, I need your input on my 2014 photo calendar. Sorry if you were expecting to choose from some photos today, I haven’t reached this point yet. I do have a lot of photos picked already, and that is I how reached this dilemma.

Now that I have my photos sorted, I clearly see that choosing 12 of them to make one calendar will be very difficult. But I do see a few themes popping out, so I’m entertaining the idea of not creating a single 2014 nature photo calendar, but actually several.

Here are the calendar themes I’m thinking about:

– One calendar with a water theme (oceans, rivers, dew drops, rain drops, and even frost)
– One calendar with animals, including insects (e.g. bees, butterflies, bugs), birds and mammals (probably no reptiles)
– One calendar with flowers (cultivated, wild, roses, water lilies)
– One calendar with water lilies only
– One calendar with trees (including tree blooms, berries and fruit) and plants
– One calendar with a broad nature theme, encompassing photos from the themes I mentioned above, as well as landscapes and skies. I might make two different calendars with this generic theme.

All these calendars will have one theme in common: all featured photos are taken in Southern California, as I want to show people the many wonderful displays of nature in this area.

So what do you think?
Too many calendars?
Too confusing?
A great way to target people’s individual tastes?
An opportunity to sell more calendars by offering more choices?
What would be your favorite?

I welcome your valuable input in helping me create beautiful calendars that people worldwide will be able to enjoy year round. Thank you for leaving your comments!

October 1, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Photography, Photos of San DiegoTags: 2014 12-month photo calendar, 2014 nature photography calendar, 2014 photo calendar 18 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.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV - Pacific ocean in the background at Coronado beach — WordPress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Pacific ocean in the background at Coronado beach

September 6, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photosTags: blue sky, california wildflowers, Coronado Beach, grass spider webs, grass spiderwebs, manzanita tree bark, orange rose, Pacific ocean, peeling manzanita, pine tree bark, raindrops in spider webs, spring wildflowers, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV 6 Comments

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea

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.

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.

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.

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 — 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.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea - sea jellies — WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – sea jellies

August 31, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Water photos 9 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: Pink water lilies

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.

Here are a few more photographs of the water lilies at the lily pond in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see my previous photos of purple water lilies here.