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Floral Friday Fotos: light and dark purple asters

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Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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I love asters because they seem so easy to grow and maintain, they just pop up in every public place. And what’s not to like about them? They’re not too big, not to small, and very colorful. To me, a bed of asters is always shouting, we’re happy today and you should be too!

Asters come in a variety of colors but my favorite is purple. Here’s a dark purple aster flower, followed by a light purple aster. Both flowers show leftover raindrops on their petals from the morning’s watering, a lovely touch left for me to capture on camera.

Floral Friday Fotos: dark purple aster flower with raindrops

Floral Friday Fotos: light purple aster flower with raindrops

Help me pick photos for my main 2014 nature photography calendar

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.

I assigned a month to each photo. Some months only have one picture assigned to them, others have several. Give me your honest opinion of which photo would be best for each month. If you don’t like the single photo for a month and would rather see another one on this list, please let me know too. For example, if you’d like to see raindrops in February but prefer the ones I chose for March instead of that month, tell me so.

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!

January – sunrise

Rain drops on a spider web over river rocks

February – raindrops over rocks 1

March – raindrop on grass

March – raindrops on rose tree leaves

March – pear blossoms

April – white powder puff

May – yellow rose

May – purple wildflowers

June – butterfly

June – dragonfly

July – plumeria

July – orange protea pin cushion group

July – orange protea pin cushion close-up

August – grass with ocean background

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One lonely seagull

August – ocean waves

September – purple water lilies

September – pink water lily 1

September – pink water lily 2

October – full moon

October – almost full moon

November – sumac

November – Sycamore

November – poplars

November – sweetgum

December – frost 1

December – frost 2

December – frost 3

November 5, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bloom Photos, Cloud photos, Flower Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Rock photos, Sky Photos, Sunrise Photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: 2014 calendar, 2014 flower calendar, 2014 nature calendar, 2014 nature photography calendar, 2014 photo calendar, blooms, California pictures, flower blooms, nature photography, orange dragonfly, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, raindrops, San Diego, tree blooms, water drops 11 Comments

Macro Monday: pink and purple hibiscus flowers

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 took these photos of hibiscus flowers a few months ago at the end of spring. Now that I’m slowly going through the hundreds of pictures on my camera’s SD cards, I get to dig up a few older photos. I love photographing hibiscus blooms because they are so colorful but it can be a challenge to get them in the right angle and light. Most of the time, the photos I take of them are worthless, and sometimes I’m lucky.

Here’s a selection of pink hibiscus, pink and white hibiscus, and purple and light yellow hibiscus flowers. The first shot is the whole flower and the second shot is a close-up. I hope you enjoy these!

Macro Monday: close-up of a pink and white hibiscus bloom

Purple and yellow hibiscus flowerPurple and yellow hibiscus flower — Purple and yellow hibiscus flower

Close-up of a purple and yellow hibiscus bloom

November 3, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, close-up of hibiscus, hibiscus macro, Macro Monday, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, pink and white hibiscus flower, pink hibiscus bloom, pink hibiscus flower, purple and yellow hibiscus, purple hibiscus 4 Comments

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

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.

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

November 1, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Plant PhotosTags: 2014 12-month photo calendar, 2014 flower calendar, 2014 nature photography calendar, 2014 photo calendar on flowers and blooms, blooms, nature photography, photos of blooms, photos of flowers 10 Comments

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.