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Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – The beach

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I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: The Beach!

Well, how often does it happen that I participate in two photo challenges about the same theme? And how often does it happen that these challenges show up in the same week? So I want to apologize for those of you who already saw the photo below in my post about beaches a few days ago. I promise you I have some really nice photos to make up for it in tomorrow’s Macro Monday post.

These are photos from Coronado Beach in a gallery format. You can click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!

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

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach

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

Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Travel theme – beaches

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves

Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Spring

This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is the season of spring. Spring is my favorite season, especially in San Diego. I love witnessing the rebirth of nature and noticing all the beautiful colors popping up around town.

I’m using the gallery format to feature my photos of spring. You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!

Yellow rose about to open

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV – Orange rose at Balboa Park in San Diego

Purple and whote Ramona lilac in bloom

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walking down the trail

Trail bordered by Ramona lilacs

Macro Monday: Small purple wildflowers

Travel theme: delicate rain drop on grass

Close-up of pink manuka flowers

A word a week – violet wildflowers with dew drops

Close-up of the pear blossoms in Balboa Park

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: the hue of you – lampranthus productus iceplant

Raindrops hanging from a thuja tree branch

California wildflowers – poppies

Photo of colorful California wildflowers

May 17, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, California Photos, Flower Photos, Landscape Photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Woods PhotosTags: blooms, California pictures, california wildflowers, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Spring, dew drops, nature photography, pear blossoms, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, photos of rain drops, photos of raindrops, ramona lilac, spring flowers 9 Comments

Travel theme: Beaches

Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “beaches”. Living in San Diego, it’s easy for me to get to the beach, yet I don’t do it very often. I love the fresh air and the wind, the smell of the ocean. I can’t stand the sand in my shoes and driving around for a parking spot. You can’t have it all!

I featured most of the photos below on my site before but I thought it’d be nice to put them together in a single post on beaches, in this case Coronado Beach. I’m using the gallery format for this today. Click on any photo to open the slideshow. To view any photo in a larger format, just scroll down while in slideshow mode and click on “view full size” on the bottom right on the page. Enjoy!

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

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: horizon at Coronado Beach

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth – San Diego sandy beach

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

Sailboats out of the San Diego Bay

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the waves of the Pacific Ocean

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Escape to Coronado Beach

Travel theme – beaches

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Change – the ocean waves

May 14, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, California Photos, Landscape Photos, Ocean photos, Photography, Photos of San Diego, Water photosTags: California pictures, Coronado Beach, crab on sand, nature photography, ocean photos, ocean waves, photography, photos, photos of waves, San Diego, San Diego beach, Travel theme: Beaches 11 Comments

Macro Monday: close-up of raindrops on yellow rose

Macro Monday: Raindrops on yellow roses

Today I’m taking part in Macro Monday at Lisa’s Chaos. Remember you can click on each image to see it in a larger format.

Last week, it rained. For two days. On and off, but mostly on. You may think rain isn’t a big deal, but when you live in San Diego, rain in May is a rare occurrence. It will probably be the last rain we get until next November so I tried to enjoy every raindrop, even though I hate walking or driving in the rain.

After the rain stopped, I took a few photos of the leftover raindrops on yellow roses. It’s amazing how such big raindrops can remain attached to the rose petals, defying gravity.

I love the patterns these raindrops form on each rose petal.

Macro Monday: raindrops on yellow rose petals

This is the same yellow rose as above, but photographed from a different angle. It’s interesting to see how the raindrops reflect the light and surroundings differently.

May 12, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower Photos, Photography, Plant PhotosTags: close-up of raindrops, Macro Monday, Macro Monday: Raindrops on yellow roses, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of blooms, photos of flowers, raindrops on rose petals, raindrops on yellow roses 9 Comments

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent

I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: Scent! Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

I’m going to use this photo challenge as an opportunity to feature a few more of the rose photos I took this past weekend at the rose garden in San Diego’s Balboa Park. You can see the other rose photos here and here.

Here’s another multicolored rose that featured a pleasant rose fragrance. It helps that it’s also very pretty to look at.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of a multicolored rose

I loved the fragrance of the next rose. It had a very delicate and pure scent. Mmmmmm…

Other flowers can smell very look, including lavender, which comes in many varieties and sizes.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of lavender

One scent I really enjoy is the one of wet dirt and grass after the rain. This after the rain scent is not too common in San Diego so I love it when it happens.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of wet dirt after the rain

My favorite flower fragrance is lilac blossoms. Unfortunately common lilacs don’t like the San Diego hot and dry weather too much, so we find a different type here in nature called the Ramona lilac. Its scent is very, very light but it still looks pretty.

Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Scent of Ramona lilac blossoms

For my last photo, I’ll share one of my favorite scents: the smell of the ocean, here at Coronado Beach. I love the mix of iodine, salt and seaweed. Can you smell it?

Update: I won an honorable mention for this photo in the weekly contest.