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I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is up. You can notice quite a lot when you look up, and here are just a few things I captured on camera. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
A dog in the sky
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Clouds in the shape of a dog
A red-tailed hawk in a sycamore tree
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Red-tailed hawk in a tree
The moon rising in the broad daylight of the afternoon
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Moon rising during the day
The highest mountain peak around
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – the mountains of Idyllwild, California
The many branches of a tall pine tree
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Looking up a pine tree
Or the sun shining through the poplar leaves in the fall
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Yellow poplar leaves in the fall
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Today I’m participating in the A Word A Week Challenge. This week’s theme is “dawn”. With young kids, I never get to sleep in, so I often have an opportunity to see the dawn, especially in the winter months. I love listening to the sounds of nature at dawn, where the animals start waking up and the birds start chirping.
Here are a few of my favorite photos of dawn. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
A Word A Week Challenge – Dawn in the winter
I’m lucky to see the sun rise behind trees and hills every morning. I love the soft glow of this winter sunrise. Such lovely dawn!
A Word A Week Challenge – Dawn in the winter
Of course, sometimes dawn wants to show up in all bright colors. What a cheerful entrance!
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I’m one of those weird people who LOVE clouds. OK, not so much the boring gray layer of stratus clouds, especially when it doesn’t produce rain. I love staring at the high layers of cirrus clouds that stretch across the skies like cotton candy. A mackerel sky always looks like it’s covered with a huge herd of sleeping sheep. And of course, my favorite clouds are the cumulus type, since they’re the best opportunity for spotting shapes.
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I took this first photo with my cell phone because that’s all I had with me that day and I didn’t want to miss capturing this great opportunity. Here’s my first dog-shaped cloud! Isn’t he a cute little doggie?
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Clouds in the shape of a dog
Another reason I love clouds is because they can make a great sunset look absolutely amazing. I took this photo on December 25, 2012 in San Diego. One of the best sunsets I’ve seen in years for sure.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Clouds at sunset
Now, here’s another photo taken from the same spot during a summer sunset with really nice soft pink and gray clouds.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Clouds of a pink and gray sunset
Of course, clouds can create some beautiful sunrise scenes, especially when the sun tries so hard to pierce through them early in the morning.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Clouds at sunrise
Finally clouds can look very creepy, especially when they crawl over the hills during a rainstorm. We get this type of crawling clouds once in a while in the winter here, and I love the look of them!
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Clouds crawling over the hills
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is circles and curves. Nature is full of circles and curves so here are a few of my selections for this theme. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
Is there anything more round than a full moon?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles and Curves – full moon
OK, oranges are pretty round too.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: round orange
Lemons aren’t round but they show plenty of curves.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: the curves of a lemon
This protea pin cushion flower has beautifully curved petals.
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I’ve always found the moon an interesting subject to photograph. It can show up any time of the day or night, low on the horizon or high up in the sky. It’s a challenge to photograph with my point-and-shoot camera. I like its 12xoptical zoom but it can have a hard time focusing on the subject. And if I want to capture something else in front of it, I rarely get both subjects, near and far, with the right lighting or focus. So I use Photoshop to create the photo I really want by combining the two photos together: the one with the moon lighted and focused on just right, and the other with the foreground under the right light and sharp content.
Here are a few photos that were created this way. Remember you can click on each photo to see it in a larger format.
Unfortunately my camera is a little grainy in very low light but I still like how these two photos came out.
Full moon rising above the horizonFull moon rising beyond the trees
Somewhere the moon can be quite visible in the middle of the day if the light is just right. Here are a few photos capturing this phenomenon.
Moon rising during the dayMoon rising behind tree branchesMoon rising in the afternoon
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