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Help me pick photos for my 2014 calendar on flowers and blooms

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Today, I’m asking your feedback on photos I’d like to include in my 2014 calendar on flowers and blooms. Just tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep or get rid of. I appreciate your honest feedback.

Here are a few questions I have for you regarding photo choices:

– I’d like to pick one lily photo but I have three to choose from. Tell me which one you prefer: the yellow, the orange or the purple/yellow one.

– Help me choose which pear blossom photo I should include: the one with many branches viewed from underneath, or one of the close-ups.

– I have 5 orange roses to choose from. Can you tell me which one you like best?

– I’d like to pick one photo of a bee on a flower but I have three to choose from, so tell me which one you prefer: the yellow, pink or red flower.

– Which powder puff flower do you like best? The white one or the pink one?

– Quick note: I will add a water lily photo to this calendar. Tell me which photo you like the most from the 2014 water lily calendar choices.

Remember that 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.

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. Thank you!

Pink and yellow rose from the side

Pink and yellow rose

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: One shot, two ways – orange rose from the side

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego

A Word A Week Challenge – Orange rose at Balboa Park

Yellow rose about to open

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – red bottle brush flower with bee

Macro Monday: bee on pink flower

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Inside – bee collecting nectar inside bags

Ornamental pear blossoms

Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park

Beautiful pear blossoms of San Diego’s Balboa Park

Macro Monday: orange lily pistils

Macro Monday: yellow lily pistils

Travel theme: Multicolored lily

A word a week: yellow plumeria flowers

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Lost in the details of the white powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala

Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala

Close-up of pink manuka flowers

Macro Monday: Small pink flowers

Morning dew on purple flowers

Macro Monday: purple flowers with thin, long petals

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Focus – Orange protea pincushion flower

Photo of colorful California wildflowers

Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers

Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections in raindrops

Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections and shadows

Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring reflections and shadows. You can click on the photos below for a larger view.

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I thought I’d use this challenge as an opportunity to share a few photos I took earlier this week after we welcomed some rain in San Diego. I wanted to photograph the raindrops and although there isn’t much colorful to reflect in the garden at this time of year, I had fun finding reflections of the other plants, as well as the iron fence behind the flower wall. These pink flowers are actually snapdragons I planted a few weeks ago.

Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections and shadows

Raindrops have such an amazing way of capturing the light and reflecting it.

This next image makes me think of a frog staring at me with big eyes on the top of its head!

Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections - raindrops look like frog eyes — Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections – raindrops look like frog eyes

I love how the straight iron fence becomes so curvy when it is reflected in the raindrops.

October 30, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Plant Photos, Water photosTags: blooms, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee’s fun foto challenge: Reflections and shadows, nature photography, pink snapdragons, rain in San Diego, raindrop close-up, raindrop macro, raindrop reflecting, reflections in rain drops, reflections in raindrops, reflections in water drops 12 Comments

Close-up of a hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Macro Monday: the hairpin banksia shrub and its blooms

Today I’m taking part in the Macro Monday photo challenge. You can click on each photo for a larger view.

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I ran across this shrub over the weekend and I had to take a few pictures of its very peculiar blooms. This is the hairpin banksia shrub, part of the protea family, originally from South Africa.

Take a closer look at the shrub’s blooms. I don’t even know if you could call them flowers. Aren’t they something?

Macro Monday: hairpin banksia shrub bloom

Here’s an ever closer look at a hairpin banksia bloom. Nature sure had fun with this one!

October 20, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Plant Photos, Tree PhotosTags: blooms, hairpin banksia blooms, hairpin banksia flowers, hairpin banksia shrub, Macro Monday, nature photography, photos of blooms, protea family, trees 18 Comments

“Capture The Colour 2013” photo contest

Fellow photography blogger Cee recommended me for the “Capture The Colour 2013” photo contest in her post yesterday. When I read the contest’s terms & conditions, I realized the contest was opened until October 9, 2013. That’s tomorrow, yikes! Since the contest holder is in the UK, I figured I had very little time to enter.

Here are my entries for each color theme: yellow, green, blue, red and white. I’m also supposed to recommend this contest to 5 fellow bloggers so here’s my pick. If I didn’t name you and still want to participate, you have a few more hours to do so.

Licht Years
Northwest Frame of Mind
The Beauty Along The Road
Travel and Trifles
Clicky Chick Creates (fellow San Diegan!)

Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

YELLOW – I took this photo of a beautiful sunflower just yesterday. This is my very first sunflower and I tried to fill my frame with it as much as I could, letting the great blue sky fill the rest.

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - yellow sunflower — Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – yellow sunflower

GREEN – this photo of a raindrop on a grass blade seems to be a favorite so it was an easy choice for the green theme. I love the grass blade reflections in the raindrop.

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - green grass with raindrop — Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – green grass with raindrop

BLUE – this was my very first dragonfly and it happened to be blue. Since then, I’ve photographed more dragonflies, all orange.

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - blue dragonfly — Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – blue dragonfly

RED – I love bees and I love bottle brush tree flowers. This photo is the best of both worlds for me, and a brand new photo on this site.

WHITE – I photographed this beautiful great egret this past weekend. Such a proud bird owning the water’s edge.

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - white great egret — Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – white great egret

October 8, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bird photos, Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Photography, Plant Photos, Water photosTags: "Capture The Colour 2013" blue, "Capture The Colour 2013" green, "Capture The Colour 2013" photo contest, "Capture The Colour 2013" red, "Capture The Colour 2013" white, "Capture The Colour 2013" yellow, bee on bottle brush flower, blue dragonfly, great egret, nature photography, raindrop on grass blade, red bottle brush flower, white great egret, yellow sunflower 23 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: cactus with red flowers (Chamaecereus sylvestris)

Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo 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.

Do you need a little color on this Friday? I have the perfect photo for you. This is a Chamaecereus sylvestris cactus, which produces fire red flowers when it blooms. Enjoy!