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A word a week challenge: atmospheric - moon behind the clouds

WordPress weekly photo challenge: Eerie

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Today I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is “eerie”. You can click on the photos below for a larger view.

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These rain clouds creeping and crawling over the hills of San Diego during a winter storm always look eerie.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie crawling clouds during a San Diego rainstorm — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie crawling clouds during a San Diego rainstorm

The landscape in front of those hills was just as eerie looking as the clouds on that day – out of this world.

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California

There’s something quite eerie about fog, don’t you think?

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie foggy morning in San Diego — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie foggy morning in San Diego

Especially when the fog is very thick and you can barely see a few feet away.

I love the eerie effect of a full moon creeping out from between the clouds. Can you hear the coyotes howl?

Wordpress weekly photo challenge - Eerie full moon coming out from behind the clouds — WordPress weekly photo challenge – Eerie full moon coming out from behind the clouds

Festival of leaves - week 4 - maple tree fall foliage

Festival of leaves – week 4 – rare maple tree sighting in San Diego

Today I’m taking part in the photo challenge called Festival of Leaves (this is week 4). You can view my contribution to week 1 and week 2. You can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe so you can enjoy the new photos I post a few times a week.

Unlike the East Coast, it’s a challenge to see some colorful fall foliage in the San Diego area. After all, most of our landscape is covered with chaparral, California sage brush, a variety of grasses and tons of cacti. So you can imagine my pleasant surprise when I happened to drive right by this beautiful maple tree during a recent day trip to the mountain town of Julian, California, about an hour away from San Diego.

It was standing tall and proud in someone’s large front yard. I can’t imagine how ecstatic those people must be every fall when the leaves of their tree start turning. Here’s a closer look at these beautiful leaves. By the way, it was an absolutely beautiful day after the very windy Santa Ana winds died down.

Here are a few more maple leaves with the sunlight shining the other way. They almost look golden there.

October 23, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Tree PhotosTags: Festival of leaves - week 4, Julian California, maple tree fall foliage, maple tree golden leaves, maple tree red leaves, maple trees San Diego, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of trees 15 Comments

Help me pick photos for my 2014 calendar on bees and bugs

Today, I’m asking your feedback on photos I’d like to include in my 2014 calendar on bees and bugs. Just tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep or get rid of. I appreciate your honest feedback.

Remember that everyone who comments on one of my 2014 photo calendar related posts will be entered in a drawing to win one of my calendars (you can pick your favorite theme). The only requirement I have for the winner is to be located within the U.S., mostly because the calendar will contain U.S. holidays and it will be more helpful to that person. For every calendar post that you comment on, you will earn one drawing entry (one entry per blog post, not per comment). I’m planning to give away one calendar to a lucky winner, and possibly another one to the person who comes in second, depending on the number of participants.

You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow and view everything in a larger format. Please include your comments into the post comment section directly, not on individual photos, to make it easier for everyone to see your feedback. Thank you!

Capture The Colour 2013 photo contest – red bottle brush flower with bee

Macro Monday: bee on pink flower

Travel theme: see through wings of a dragonfly

Travel theme: Wild – orange dragonfly

Fuzzy caterpillar

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Saturated – green junebug beetle

Macro Monday: orange dragonfly taking off

Wordpress weekly photo challenge: Inside – bee collecting nectar inside bags

Giant owl butterfly

Lines and patterns of the paper kite butterfly (Idea Leuconoe)

Bee on the pear blossoms at San Diego Balboa Park

Travel theme: see through wings of a bee

Bee on yellow cactus blooms

Bee on a wild rose

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

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October 16, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal PhotosTags: 2014 calendar, 2014 nature photography calendar, 2014 photo calendar, bee on flower, bee photos, butterflies, butterfly, fuzzy caterpillar, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of bees, red ladybug 19 Comments

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

Today I’m participating in Floral Friday Fotos. Remember you can click on the photo below to see them in a larger format.

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If you need a little splash of color today, I have just the thing for you – a bright yellow sunflower I photographed at a local pumpkin patch earlier this week.

Floral Friday Fotos: bright yellow sunflower

I love how the center of the sunflower expands as the sunflower seeds grow inside of it.

It’s amazing how large the center grows as the seeds develop.

October 10, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Bloom Photos, Flower PhotosTags: blooms, bright yellow sunflower, center of the sunflower, Floral Friday Fotos, heart of the sunflower, photography, photos, photos of blooms, sunflower close-up, sunflower macro, sunflower seeds, sunflower seeds growing 13 Comments

Help me pick photos for my 2014 water lily calendar

I want to thank everyone for all the feedback on my photo selections for my water theme 2014 photo calendar. Today, I’m asking your feedback on photos I’d like to include in my 2014 calendar on water lilies. Just tell me which ones you’d really want to see, and which ones I should definitely keep or get rid of. I appreciate your honest feedback.

You can click on any photo below to open the slideshow and view everything in a larger format. Please include your comments into the post comment section directly, not on individual photos, to make it easier for everyone to see your feedback.

There are several photos in this gallery I’ve never featured on this website before, so I hope you notice them as nice additions. Finally, I know one of these photos is a lotus and not a water lily, so I’d like your opinion on including it in the calendar or not.