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WordPress weekly photo challenge: Curves of the chandelier at the Hotel Del Coronado

Travel theme: Light

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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “light”. Enjoy my photos and remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

When taking photos, light is your best friend. It can also be your best enemy. Capturing the light the right way can make for a good or a not so good picture. I love using sunlight as much as I can to compose my photos, for example with this lemon.

There’s the light of the morning sun.

And the light of the setting sun.

Of course, light isn’t always natural, and we’re surrounded by plenty of artificial light. Here’s plenty of light from this glass chandelier in the lobby of the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California.

And then, there’s the moon. Of course, the moon doesn’t produce light but only reflects it, and a full moon can reflect a lot of light!

Travel theme: Light - full moon — Travel theme: Light – full moon

And is there any happier light than the one created by Christmas lights?

When life gives you lemons

When life gives you lemons, you take plenty of pictures of them! I recently showed you some pictures I took of lemons and oranges in the summer light, but lemons can be just as beautiful on a rainy day.

I picked the photo of a lemon to represent November in my 2013 photo calendar and I wanted to share some other photos I took on the same day. Gray and rainy days are often a disappointment when you’d planned to take pictures on that day. Sometimes you just have to look past the wet grayness to see the beauty. Raindrops can make a great addition to your subject and a grey cloudy sky can be used as an nice, even background for contrast. And the filtered light can be your friend if you use it well.

Let’s start with the photo from my 2013 calendar:

Here’s another lemon, this time with the lemon tree leaves as the background:

Here’s a close-up of a wet lemon. I should have used the flash for this one…

And here are three wet lemons in a row. I love it! My only regret is, the lemon on the right is not completely in focus. Better luck next time!

October 15, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Fruit Photos, Tree PhotosTags: 2013 calendar, 2013 photo calendar, California pictures, fruit photos, lemon leaves, lemon on rainy day, lemon photo, lemon tree leaves, photo of lemon, photography, photos, photos of fruit, photos of trees, rainy lemon, wet lemon 15 Comments

My 2013 calendar pick for November: a lemon in the rain

View all of the pictures I selected for my 2013 photo calendar.

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Unless you’re from California or Florida, you may not know May and November are the prime harvest months for citrus. Since I wanted my 2013 photo calendar to have a definite local flavor, I chose a photo I actually took last November of a lemon tree.

It happened to be a rainy day and I wanted to capture the rain drops on the lemons. The gray sky allowed some sunlight to filter through, offering a great neutral background. The sky looks almost white and allows the lemon to stand out. You can click on the lemon photo for a larger view. What do you think of it?

My 2013 calendar pick for November: a lemon in the rain

October 9, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Fruit Photos, Tree PhotosTags: 2013 calendar, 2013 photo calendar, California pictures, lemon in rain, lemon photo, lemon tree, november lemon, photo of lemon, photography, photos 2 Comments

Lemons and oranges

I love photographing fruit, especially when it’s ripe on the tree. The more colorful, the better, especially with a nice background.

A few months ago, I spent a little time taking pictures of lemons and oranges. Here’s what a ripe lemon looks like in the California sun and a beautiful blue sky as the background.