Coronado Beach

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – The beach

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I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: The Beach!

Well, how often does it happen that I participate in two photo challenges about the same theme? And how often does it happen that these challenges show up in the same week? So I want to apologize for those of you who already saw the photo below in my post about beaches a few days ago. I promise you I have some really nice photos to make up for it in tomorrow’s Macro Monday post.

These are photos from Coronado Beach in a gallery format. You can click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Travel theme – beaches

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape

Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “escape”. You can click on any photo below to see it in a larger format.

There are many ways to escape but I think my favorite is through books. Nowhere else can you visit faraway lands and people, real or imaginary, at any moment in time. My latest escape? The Guardians of Childhood book series by William Joyce. Wonderful adventures!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape with the Guardians of Childhood

Living in San Diego, there are many places I can escape to. The first one I think of is the beach.

I can also escape to the mountains.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to the mountains of Idyllwild

I can escape to a magical fairyland by going up these stone steps.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to a magical fairyland

Or escape deep into the beautiful details of nature.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape in the details of an orange dragonfly

Oh, and now that I got myself some new Pirelli tires, I can escape really fast. Zoom zoom!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape with Pirelli tires

May 17, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, California Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Tree Photos, Water photosTags: Coronado Beach, Guardians of Childhood william joyce, mountain landscape, orange dragonfly, Pirelli tires, stone steps, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape 14 Comments

Travel theme: Beaches

Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “beaches”. Living in San Diego, it’s easy for me to get to the beach, yet I don’t do it very often. I love the fresh air and the wind, the smell of the ocean. I can’t stand the sand in my shoes and driving around for a parking spot. You can’t have it all!

I featured most of the photos below on my site before but I thought it’d be nice to put them together in a single post on beaches, in this case Coronado Beach. I’m using the gallery format for this today. Click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Sea – the waves at Coronado Beach

Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Travel theme – beaches

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves

May 14, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, California Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Water photosTags: California pictures, Coronado Beach, crab on sand, nature photography, ocean photos, ocean waves, photography, photos, photos of waves, San Diego, San Diego beach, Travel theme: Beaches 11 Comments

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent

I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: Scent! Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

I’m going to use this photo challenge as an opportunity to feature a few more of the rose photos I took this past weekend at the rose garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see the other rose photos here and here.

Here’s another multicolored rose that featured a pleasant rose fragrance. It helps that it’s also very pretty to look at.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a multicolored rose

I loved the fragrance of the next rose. It had a very delicate and pure scent. Mmmmmm…

Other flowers can smell very look, including lavender, which comes in many varieties and sizes.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of lavender

One scent I really enjoy is the one of wet dirt and grass after the rain. This after the rain scent is not too common in San Diego so I love it when it happens.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain

My favorite flower fragrance is lilac blossoms. Unfortunately common lilacs don’t like the San Diego hot and dry weather too much, so we find a different type here in nature called the Ramona lilac. Its scent is very, very light but it still looks pretty.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms

For my last photo, I’ll share one of my favorite scents: the smell of the ocean, here at Coronado Beach. I love the mix of iodine, salt and seaweed. Can you smell it?

Update: I won an honorable mention for this photo in the weekly contest.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent - ocean smell — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent – ocean smell

May 9, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Water photosTags: after the rain, Balboa Park, blooms, Coronado Beach, lavender, let's be wild weekly photo challenge, Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent, light rose, lilac blossoms, multicolored rose, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, raindrops on leaves, ramona lilac, rose garden, San Diego, smell of the ocean 7 Comments

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change

I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is change. I could pick from so many different types of photos to illustrate this theme. The first thing that actually came to mind was the change of spring and the rebirth of nature around me. But then I remembered this past weekend and my visit to Coronado Beach to see the Pacific Ocean.

I love watching the ocean waves as they come and go. I could sit on the sand and watch them for hours. If you don’t pay close attention, you’ll think the waves all look the same, but they really change a lot from one to the next. They start and break in different places. Each is of a different height. The rolls never seem to appear in the same spot. Though the ocean seems constant, it’s constantly changing. Just like me!

I used my Canon Powershot G1 X for these shots with a polarizer filter and I love how the photos came out. Remember you can click on each photo to see a larger view. Enjoy!

I love watching the waves slowly form…