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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring all one color. 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.
Here’s a splash of green and some raindrops for the first photo of this theme.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: raindrops on green branches
This iceplant is called lampranthus productus and I love its bright purple blooms in the winter. Yes, there’s a little yellow in the middle of each flower but I couldn’t resist featuring my favorite color for this theme.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: lampranthus productus iceplant
Frost of dead leaves makes for an interesting color.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: Frost on leaves
The same goes for frost on ice plants.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: frost on ice plants in San Diego
I don’t know what these pink flowers are but I sure love the color.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: all one color – bright pink flowers
All for my last photo, I’ll share a splash of yellow, yellow lily that is.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: all one color – yellow lily
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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “the golden hour”, that first or last hour of the day that gives such a special light to everything around. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.
I love the glowing effect the rising sun rays give to these puffy clouds.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – clouds at sunrise
On a winter morning, I love how the sun rays do their best to shine through the fog and make the fall foliage turn gold.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – fall foliage glows through the fog
The morning sunlight right after a night of rain has an interesting effect too. I love to capture that special light on raindrops.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – morning sunlight lights up raindrops on leaves
We don’t get a lot of frost in San Diego and when we do, it starts to disappear as soon as the sun comes out and exposes its warm rays. So it’s a race against time to capture the frost in the sunlight before it melts.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – morning sunlight lights up raindrops on leaves – frost on the edge of a leaf
The late afternoon sun in the winter can give a nice golden look to yellow leaves, and the scene looks even nicer if you can capture the moon in the background.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – the sun lights up fall leaves with the moon in the background
Finally I like how bright the sky can still be while everything on the ground is getting darker as the sun sets.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: the golden hour – bright skies as the sun sets
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Nature is full of fleeting moments and that’s what makes it challenging to photograph. Of course, animals are the hardest to photograph as they may be right in front of you one moment, and gone by the time you pull your camera out. Bees collecting nectar are a good example of a fleeting moment. I got lucky with this shot, where I managed to photograph a bee collecting nectar in the bags on its legs.
Dragonflies are notorious for flying around for hours without taking a break. I got lucky with this orange dragonfly who decided to take a very short rest on a tree branch not far from me.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – orange dragonfly resting on a tree branch
This baby koala was a nice capture of the fleeting moment a couple of weeks ago, as he turned his head towards me for a few minutes so I could capture this photo.
Butterflies are the perfect expression of a fleeting moment, as they’re often difficult to capture since they don’t stand still for too long. I was lucky to get a photo of this giant owl butterfly.
Not just animals are fleeting in nature. The morning dew is another example of something that doesn’t last a long time and is gone by the time the sun is out and shining.
Our San Diego winters don’t get very cold but we manage to get frost several days a year. The frost melts as soon as the winter sun rays warm it up, but it’s very pretty while it lasts.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – frost on ice plants in San DiegoWordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – frost on leaves in San Diego
I think the most fleeting moments in nature are sunrise and sunset. They last only a few minutes but set the tone for the day and for the night.
A beautiful sunrise can inspire you for a whole day.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – winter sunrise in San Diego
A gorgeous sunset can give you hope for the next day.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Fleeting – San Diego sunset Christmas 2012
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is lines. Nature is full of lines, but they’re not always straight, vertical or horizontal so it can take a little time to spot them in the scene.
Here is a selection of a few photos that display all sorts of lines. Remember you can click on each image for a larger view.
I took this first photo at SeaWorld San Diego. I love the lines formed by the legs of the various flamingos in the shot. By the way, check out the duck that’s walking in front of the flamingo in the water. He thinks he’s one of them but his legs are about two feet too short!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines – flamingo legs
I love the lines on this tiger swallowtail butterfly’s wings.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines on a tiger swallowtail butterfly
I love the numerous thin lines the petals form on this bottle brush tree flower. Also take a closer look at the leaves on the left and how they’re outlined with a lighter shade of green.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines on a bottle brush tree flower
The pistils of this yellow lilium start in a straight line but take a vertical turn halfway.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines of pistils on a yellow lilium
My last photo for this theme is an ice plant lined up with frost, leaf by leaf. The brown blade of grass in the background also displays lines of frost. This is one of my favorite photos of frost I’ve taken so far. You can see more photos of frost here and here.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines of frost on ice plant
These are just a few photos that highlight lines in nature. I hope you enjoyed them!
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This is the rest of the photos of frost I took these past few weeks in San Diego, California. You can find my other photos of frost here and here. I think this may have been my last opportunity to photograph frost this winter, since we’ve been experiencing a warming trend. And what a warming it has been! While the rest of the USA is suffering from subzero temperatures, we’re enjoying afternoons in the low 80s. How crazy is that? Of course, there’s a chance the warmth won’t last and we’ll have a few more frosty mornings before the end of winter. We’ll see, but in the meantime, I’m pretty happy with the large set of photos I got.
Remember you can click on any photo below for a larger view.
I think this may be my favorite frost photo of all. What do you think?
Frosty plants in San Diego
Here’s some frost on a spider web. And what a messy spider web it is!
Frost on spider web
I like the look of the frost on these dried flowers, covering every petal. And I really like the bluish gray tint from the winter morning’s light.
Delicate frost on plants and flowers
Here’s a dusting of frost on dried leaves. Did somebody sprinkled powdered sugar?
Frost on dried leaves
Here’s the last photo, showing not only frost but also small ice crystals on this leaf. It almost looks like a hairy leaf!
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