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More rain in San Diego means more raindrop photo opportunities

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We seem to be enjoying a pretty rainy winter in San Diego. Besides the seven days of almost continuous rain we had before the holidays, we also had some rain just before and after Christmas, and again this past weekend and a couple of nights ago. The good thing is, most of this rain is steady but not overabundant, so the ground is soaking it up nicely and floods are few around the county. Another good thing is, we’re starting to see new green growth on our hilly landscape. Of course, it will all turn brown by May but we’ll probably have a green spring before then. I can’t wait!

I like taking photos of raindrops after the rain. I’ve found them on spider webs, and again on more spider webs. After the latest rain, I noticed a large amount of raindrops on the netting I put around my garden. This netting is there to protect my produce from the darn squirrels that try to eat it. So far, the squirrels have won every time.

Here’s what I saw when I stepped out in the garden. You can click on an image for a larger view. I like the wavy patterns the raindrops make because of the loose netting.

And yes, it’s my bougainvillea in the background, not faring well with all the frost we’ve had. I guess it will need a good trimming when spring comes. Talking about frost, I took a few more photos of frosty leaves last weekend, so I’ll be working on a post with lots of frosty photos. Brrrrrr….

Raindrops on garden netting

Close-up of raindrops on netting

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Enjoying the Pacific Ocean at Coronado Beach

I apologize if you’ve seen some of these photos in a previous post, but I want to add one to the lot and keep them all together in one post about our San Diego beaches. My next post will probably feature more frost photos so I need images of the beach to keep my bones warm a little longer.

Last weekend, I did something I haven’t done in a very long time: go to the beach with my kids. I live less than 30 minutes away from it and I don’t go very often. Why? Mostly because of the sand. It gets everywhere, especially with kids! Between your toes, in your clothes, your hair, your mouth, argh… But we’ve been talking of going to look at tide pools for months, and the winter’s low tides occur more often at times when we’re awake. Coronado Beach, just across from downtown San Diego is my favorite beach in town and it deserves its “best beach in the USA” status.

Unfortunately, we didn’t see many tide pools there but I’m planning to go to another beach soon for that. Instead, we spent the morning enjoying the ocean breeze (I love that iodine smell!), looking for shells and writing in the sand. The weather was beautiful and Coronado beach looked like this (remember to click on each image for a larger view):

The waves were a decent size and quite noisy. The boys loved to look at them and I enjoyed taking pictures of the big rolls coming in. Look how pretty!

Beautiful waves at Coronado Beach, San Diego, California

The day was perfect to take the sailboats out and they were lined up coming out of the San Diego Bay by Point Loma.

After our walk on the beach, we went back to the sidewalk to walk to the Hotel Del Coronado (I love that place!). On our way, I snapped this picture showing the mild weather you can find by the beach in San Diego. A perfect January day!

Pacific ocean in the background, Coronado, California

January 9, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Water photosTags: California pictures, Coronado Beach photos, Coronado California, Pacific ocean photos, photography, photos, photos of Coronado beach, rolling waves photos, San Diego, San Diego Bay, San Diego beach photos, San Diego photos, San Diego sailboats 5 Comments

I signed up for Project 365 – 2013

A few days ago, I decided to participate in the Project 365 – 2013 challenge. This is an interactive one-photo-a-day challenge that provides you with daily inspiration / themes. The project is flexible enough that you don’t have to participate every day if you think taking one photo a day is too much, and you don’t have to stick to the daily themes if you are already inspired by something else.

My biggest personal challenge was to figure out how to take part in Project 365 exactly. Should I create a post for this every day on my website, or dedicate an individual page, or something else? So I opted for the something else by doing this:

Post my daily photo on my Facebook page, in the Project 365 – 2013 photo album
Post my daily photo on the Project 365 – 2013 Facebook page
Not feel obligated to post a photo every day just for the sake of posting
Integrate my Project 365 – 2013 in the posts I create for this website. I usually take more than one photo during a shoot and it would be a pity not to share the other good shots

This will be a fun way to share my photos with others, besides on this blog, and see what photos other people are taking as part of this project. Later today, I’ll share a few photos of my weekend morning at Coronado Beach, in San Diego, California, where the weather was beautiful and the waves were impressive.

If you’re not part of the Project 365 – 2013, it’s never too late to join. Here’s their quick start guide on how to getting going.

January 9, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: PhotographyTags: photo challenge, photography, photos, Project 365 - 2013, Project 365 - 2013 challenge, Project 365 - 2013 photos 6 Comments

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest - blue dragonfly

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Your 2012 Outdoors and Nature

One of my goals for 2013 when it comes to my photography activities is to participate in more photo challenges. I hope to mingle with other photographers of all levels, get more people to see my photos and gather feedback.

This past week, I joined the Project 365 – 2013, where I will attempt to post a photo almost every day, both on my Facebook page, as well as the Project 365 2013 Facebook page. I love to see the other photos people submit on a daily basis!

I’ve also decided to join Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, which takes place weekly. This week’s theme is “Your 2012 Outdoors and Nature”, with a focus on people and animals. If you visit my site regularly, you’ve probably seen all of the photos below already, and I apologize. If you’re new here, I hope you enjoy my photos of outdoors and nature animals. You can click on each image to see a larger view in a slideshow format. You can also access much larger photos directly from each post, available from my Animals page, which needs some serious updating. Another of my 2013 goals!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines on a tiger swallowtail butterfly

Mourning dove sitting on its nest and eggs

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – blue dragonfly

Bee on a wild rose

Stellar jay bird

Travel theme: Contrast – Sea jellies

Stellar Jay bird sitting on a branch

squirrel relaxing in the sun

Delicate dew drops on spider web

January 7, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bird photos, California Photos, Photography, Photos of San DiegoTags: California pictures, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, jelly fish photos, mourning dove photo, photo challenges, photography, photos, Project 365 - 2013, sea jellies photos, sea jelly photo, squirrel photo, stellar jay bird photo, tiger swallowtail butterfly photo 6 Comments

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

Sunday Post: Goals

Today I’m participating in Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post photo challenge. This week’s theme is Goals. I’m purposely not having new year’s resolutions for 2013, but rather “intentions” and a to-do list to make these intentions happen.

Earlier today, I hosted a “vision board” party for about 20 friends at my house. We all got together and organized our thoughts, intentions and goals for 2013 to create our individual vision boards. I have to say it was a very cleansing process and I’m very glad to have completed my 2013 board, which will now be a daily reminder of what is important for me to accomplish this year.

One of the sections I included on my board is titled “Be more creative and artistic”. I have been putting this goal on the back burner for way too long, only for it to itch constantly. I addressed part of it last year by creating this new photography website, but there’s still a lot more to do, like the items on this list:

Sunday post: Goals - 2013 vision board - be more creative — Sunday post: Goals – 2013 vision board – be more creative

Besides taking pictures on a regular basis, I want to spend more time drawing. I got a Bamboo Create graphics tablet for Christmas and I want to make sure to dedicate time every day to draw with it, or even just on paper.

Of course, when it comes to photos, I want to capture new sights several times a week but also update my Facebook page and my Pinterest page, which is pretty much blank right now, and add new photo products to my Zazzle store.

My goal is to take more beautiful photos like the ones I took this first weekend of January at Coronado Beach, in San Diego, California, for everyone to enjoy. I find the Pacific ocean very inspiring new it comes to making new goals for the year.

Here are a few photos of Coronado Beach, named the #1 beach in the USA for a lot of very good reasons. You can click on each photo to see a larger view.