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Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers

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I’m participating in the online adventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s Challenge is: Flowers.

Yeah! Flowers are one of my favorite subjects to photograph. I used quite a few photos of flowers in my 2013 12-month photo calendar, didn’t I?

Why do I love photographing flowers so much? First, they still mostly still, unlike my kids, so I can take my time and find the best angle to photograph them. Unless my kids are standing very impatiently by my side… Second, flowers come in tons of different colors. I love pink and purple (you’ll see one of my most favorite flowers below) but really, flowers look great in almost any color. Third, on top of their awesome colors, some flowers can even smell good. Ah, our world is such a wonderful place…

For this photo challenge on flowers, I’ll share a few photos I took during my most recent visit to the San Diego Botanic Garden. I have many more photos to share about this visit, including some of the most amazing topiary I’ve ever seen. So if you’d like to see them, make sure you subscribe to this blog (sign up in the left sidebar), or to my Facebook page.

It’s one thing to like flowers and take photos of them. It’s another to know the names of the flowers you photograph. Even when I visit the San Diego Botanic Garden, I manage to take photos of flowers that are not labeled, so several of the flowers below will remain nameless, unless you know their names and you’re kind enough to share in the Comments section.

Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

Here’s one of my most favorite flower in San Diego. It starts blooming in large patches in January, for about two months – a beautiful way to celebrate winter here. I believe this is called a Pink Aster. And it’s my favorite color too!

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers - Pink asters — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers – Pink asters

What goes well with flowers? Bees! Here’s a bee on cactus flowers. Very cute, small, yellow flowers as you can see, smaller than a bee. Unfortunately I don’t know what type of cactus this is.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers - Bee on cactus flowers — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers – Bee on cactus flowers

Many types of cactus are blooming at this time of year, and aloe is no exception. The one in the front is called Red Aloe, the one in the back Gold Aloe. Don’t they look great?

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers - Red Aloe and Gold Aloe — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers – Red Aloe and Gold Aloe

My last flower pick is some type of daisy. Unfortunately its petals are not in great shape but I really like the angle of this photo.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers - Yellow daisy — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Flowers – Yellow daisy

Stay tuned for a couple more posts on my visit to the San Diego Botanic Garden. I promise you won’t be disappointed, especially with the topiary I found throughout the garden.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: My 2012 in pictures

It’s been quite an eventful year for me but besides the bad and the ugly, lots of good things have happened, including the launch of this photography website, and the launch of my online Zazzle store to sell photo products.

I took a lot of great photos this year and I displayed some of them on this site. I still have quite a number of photos to go through on my various SD cards but are several of my favorite photos for 2012. You can click on each photo for a larger view and find each photo in individual posts on this site by using the search tool. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter – texture of frost on grass

Pink sky at sunset in San Diego

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Illumination

Christmas decorations: three penguins

Delicate dew drops on spider web

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red hibiscus flower

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Home – changing seasons in San Diego

A Word A Week Challenge – Orange leaves of a sumac tree in the fall

Travel theme: Stones with rain drops on spiderweb

2013 photo calendar

WordPress weekly photo challenge: the world reflecting inside a bubble

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: moon at the horizon

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One fat squirrel

Stellar Jay bird sitting on a branch

California wildflowers – poppies

Purple and white California lupine at San Diego Mission Trails Regional Park

Travel theme: Contrast – Sea jellies

Lilac blooms in Ramona, California

December 28, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Bird photos, Bloom Photos, California Photos, Christmas Photos, Flower Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Rock photos, Sky Photos, Sunset photos, Tree PhotosTags: 2012 in review, 2012 photos, California pictures, photography, photos, photos of flowers, San Diego, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, Wordpress weekly photo challenge: My 2012 in pictures 25 Comments

Photo of colorful California wildflowers

Bright and colorful wildflowers to warm you up on this cold December day

If you haven’t participated in my contest to win a free copy of my 2013 photo calendar yet, today is the last day, so hurry and let your friends know about it too!

I don’t know how cold it is where you live, but here in inland San Diego County, it’s freezing! And no, I’m not exaggerating, it actually froze last night when the outside temperature got below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Let’s just hope the cold weather doesn’t stay for too long, since it can do a lot of damage to the local avocado and citrus crops.

If it’s cold where you are, I have a few photos that will hopefully warm you up bit. I took them last spring, when the warm sun laid its gentle rays on thousands of bright and colorful California wildflowers at a local park. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

I used the first photo of wildflowers in my 2013 photo calendar, as it represents Southern California in the early spring perfectly.

Here’s a similar style of photo, but showing a different type of flowers.

Here’s another photo of the light pink wildflowers. I believe they are called Hungarian breadseed poppies. They’re very pretty with their delicate shades of pink!

Hungarian breadseed poppies - light pink poppies — Hungarian breadseed poppies – light pink poppies

Finally, here’s an assortment of colors for you: light pink, purple, orange and red. Somebody had fun throwing these seeds all over.

I hope you feel warmer inside, if not on the outside!

Pink, purple and red California wildflowers

December 19, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower PhotosTags: 2013 calendar contest, 2013 photo calendar, California flowers, California pictures, California poppies, california wildflowers, Hungarian breadseed poppies, Hungarian breadseed poppy, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, San Diego 13 Comments

A Word A Week Challenge – Orange flower with fuzzy petals

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate

Remember you have only two days left to enter my contest to win a free copy of my 2013 photo calendar!

There’s nothing more delicate than life. Life of a person, life of an animal, life of a plant. Life comes and goes, sometimes unexpectedly. It’s been a tragic week for America, especially so close to Christmas. Children are the most delicate kind of human beings, and yet they can be so resilient.

I’ll stick to photos of nature today to illustrate the WordPress weekly photo challenge theme, delicate. Make sure you click on each image if you’d like to see a larger version of it.

I recently took photos of raindrops on spider webs on two separate occasions. One-finger touch and both the spider web and the raindrops can be gone. You can view more of these spider webs here.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate raindrops on spider webs

And you can view more of the spider webs below here and here.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate raindrops on spider webs over river rocks

And here are a few photos of flowers, which are a very delicate part of nature. I have no idea what this flower is called but I love the fuzziness all over its petals.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate, fuzzy petals of a tropical flower

The flower below might be a hibiscus but I’m not sure (I’m terrible at flower names). I just love the pollen on top of the stigma, and the delicate petals and their delicate color.

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate petals of a hibiscus

December 16, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Rock photosTags: California pictures, fuzzy petals, hibiscus photo, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, rain drops on spider webs, raindrops on spider webs, Wordpress weekly photo challenge, WordPress weekly photo challenge: Delicate 13 Comments

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture

I want to start this post by reminding you that you only have a day and a half left to use this great Zazzle coupon code 65CANVASCALS at checkout to get 65% off my 2013 photo calendar or any of my canvas prints. Hurry, it doesn’t get any better than this. Expires on December 5, 2012.

I’m participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s Challenge is: Texture in Nature! Remember to click on any image below to view it in a larger format.

I see texture in flowers and their interesting blooms, in this case a large California-native bush called Baccharis Sarothroides. No, I’m not a plant expert of any kind. A friend of mine helped me hunt the name down, I had no idea what it was when I took the pictures. I’ll do a future post with more photos of this Baccharis bush. I love the fluffy texture of the blooms. And it blooms in the late fall, who knew?

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture - Baccharis Sarothroides blooms — Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture – Baccharis Sarothroides blooms

I see texture in fruit, in this case a beautiful yellow lemon on the tree, ready to be picked.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture of a yellow lemon on the tree

I see texture in this funny looking moss on a pine tree branch. I love it!

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Texture of green moss on a pine tree branch

Finally I see texture creating an image on this tree trunk – a scarfed lady with a walking stick. Do you see her? Nature winks at you from the side every day. You just have to notice it.