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Remember you can click on each image below for a larger view. Here’s a beautiful red hibiscus flower to start with.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red hibiscus flower
A white hibiscus flower is just as pretty, believe it or not. It even has a little pinkish red on it.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: white hibiscus flower
There’s also the beautiful ornamental pear blossoms of San Diego’s Balboa Park. They don’t smell good but they sure are pretty!
Pear blossoms at San Diego’s Balboa Park
Now, if you’re looking for red and white on a single picture, take a peek at my budding strawberries. Amid the green and red leaves, you can find a few white strawberry blossoms.
Red strawberry leaves and white strawberry blossoms
Spring is almost here but Christmas wasn’t that long ago and ’tis the ultimate season for red and white!
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Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love taking photos of flowers and plants, but I’m terrible at identifying what they are. I recently featured some beautiful pink and fuzzy flowers but I had no idea what they were at first. When I posted the photo on my Facebook page, someone kindly told me the flowers belonged to the New Zealand Christmas Tree. After googling that tree, I was pretty convinced and so I wrote my post around this specific tree.
Now, here’s the catch. I visited the San Diego Botanic Garden this weekend and I saw fuzzy flowers that looked just like the pink ones but they were white. So I looked at the tree label and it said… White powder puff – Calliandra Haematocephala. Ha!
Powder puff tree – calliandra haematocephala
The powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala – can feature fuzzy flowers that are either pink or white depending on its variety. The powder puff shaped flowers are beautiful in either color, so for this Macro Monday post, I’m featuring both colors for your enjoyment.
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Macro Monday: pink powder puff tree – Calliandra Haematocephala
The berries you see on the photo are not edible. They actually are the flower buds before they bloom. Aren’t these blooms pretty?
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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is black and white or sepia tones. Now that’s quite a challenge for me because I shoot all my photos in color and I pick my subjects because of their specific colors and tones. I’m not an Ansel Adams fan either. I think Mother Nature spent a lot of time assigning colors to each of her small parts, so I often feel the lack of colors on some photos doesn’t give nature enough credit for the great job she did.
I had to dig through all of my photos and find a few that I thought would look good in black and white. I have no idea if I pulled it off, so you’ll have to let me know what you think.
Remember you can click on each photo below to see a larger version of it.
This is a small stream in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California. I still have to do a post on the several photos I captured that day. I think water may be something that looks OK in black and white, especially when it flows fast.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white water stream
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white creeping, crawling rain clouds
This next photo is a sunrise where the sun tried very hard to pierce through the clouds. It created an orange yellow glow mixing with the gray clouds that was just gorgeous. I’m not too crazy about the lack of color of this photo, knowing how beautiful the colors of the original sunrise were.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white cloudy sunrise
I found the tree below at Balboa Park. I love all the giant thorns poking out of its trunk and I think the black and white format doesn’t take anything away from the original.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white, very pointy tree trunk
This is my former neighbors’ cat. She’s dark gray with bright green eyes. I think most animals and people can look beautiful on black and white photos. Isn’t she a cutie? I want to caption this photo “the great horned owl cat”.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white, beautiful cat
I took this last photo at the San Diego Zoo. These are two brother bears – grizzly bears – enjoying some cuddling and hugging time. I used the color photo to participate in the Project 365 -2013 on Facebook and I hope to feature it in an upcoming post. The white at the bottom is actually snow the zoo keepers made for the bears that day.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and white grizzly bears at the San Diego Zoo
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I just used the photo below on my other blog to illustrate this week’s WordPress photo challenge theme, Kiss. Since I share photos of nature and animals on this site, I thought I’d share this photo here too.
If you’ve never seen killer whales kissing, this is what it looks like. Yes, these orcas are French kissing! And they did this for about 10 minutes the day I took this photo. Thank you, SeaWorld San Diego, for showing me that tongue kissing is so popular among marine mammals. I had no idea.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Kiss – killer whales French kissing
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Green isn’t something you see a lot of in San Diego. The outdoor scenery is gray, brown and yellow most of the year. Still, you can be lucky and capture some green on camera, like that spring day when I stumbled upon this patch of surreal green at Dos Picos County Park. You can view more photos of Dos Picos County Park here, and here.
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