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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring featuring one item or the number one. You can click on the photos below for a larger view.
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I thought I’d stick to animals for this photo challenge. Here are a few examples of animals standing on their own among nature. Enjoy!
One proud white great egret.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One white great egret
One red-tailed hawk thinking about his next meal.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One red-tailed hawk
One fat squirrel, who could be the red-tailed hawk’s next meal…
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One fat squirrel
One stunning blue Stellar jay bird.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One Stellar jay bird
One monarch caterpillar munching on milkweed.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One monarch caterpillar
One little crab camouflaged in the sand on the beach.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand
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I’m participating in the WordPress weekly photo challenge and this week’s theme is up. You can notice quite a lot when you look up, and here are just a few things I captured on camera. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
A dog in the sky
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Clouds in the shape of a dog
A red-tailed hawk in a sycamore tree
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Red-tailed hawk in a tree
The moon rising in the broad daylight of the afternoon
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Moon rising during the day
The highest mountain peak around
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – the mountains of Idyllwild, California
The many branches of a tall pine tree
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Looking up a pine tree
Or the sun shining through the poplar leaves in the fall
WordPress weekly photo challenge: Up – Yellow poplar leaves in the fall
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I’m participating in the online adventure travel and outdoor photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers. This week’s Challenge is: Overlooked. This theme is perfect for me because this is the type of photos I take most often. Photos of things that are right in front of your nose but that nobody notices even when they walk right by it. Here are a few photos of beautiful things that can be overlooked, some of them brand new, and others I’ve used in previous posts on this site.
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I took this first photo last week and as I was pressing the shutter, I could see there was something peculiar about that bee. When I opened the photo file on my computer, I was in awe. Did you know that bees have bags, or pollen baskets, on their legs to carry the nectar they collect? This worker bee had obviously been very busy at collecting nectar from the fullness of its bags. How cool is that? None of the people walking by while I was taking pictures noticed this bee or all the others next to it.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked bee carries bags of nectar on legs
I took the next photo just this past weekend at the beach in Coronado, California. This little crab was half buried in the wet sand at low tide. Dozens of people walked right by it without ever noticing it. What a pity.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked crab in the sand
Did you know that grass is fuzzy? Even when you take a close-up photo of a grass blade, you may not see it, unless the grass is covered with morning dew. Then the fuzz of the grass really stands out.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked fuzzy grass covered with dew
This last photo features a red-tailed hawk sitting on the highest branch of a very tall Sycamore tree. Unless you looked up, you wouldn’t know it was there.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Overlooked red-tailed hawk in a tree
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I have a 12x optical zoom on the camera I take with me most often. It doesn’t allow me to zoom very far but it’s usually good enough to capture what I can see with the naked eye. For this “distant” theme, I decided to focus on animals that fly (but are sitting still at the time), since they are the ones I mostly have to zoom on to capture on camera. Here are a few recent shots, and a couple of older ones. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.
I took the first photo this past weekend at Dos Picos County Park, not far from San Diego, California. This red-tailed hawk was sitting at the top of a tall sycamore tree and being very noisy, so I thought he deserved to have his picture taken. We have a lot of red-tailed hawks around and it’s always a treat to watch the male and female hunt for food for their young together.
Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – distant red tailed hawk
I took the next photo last week at the San Diego Zoo. I believe this blue heron is a local freeloader since they water basin was mostly occupied by reptiles – turtles and crocodiles. This big guy was eyeing the little fish swimming in the water and slowly walking towards them for a taste.
Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – distant blue heron
This little guy below is a Stellar jay bird. Isn’t he beautiful? I took his photo in Idyllwild, California, where there are a lot of these birds. What’s interesting is, we only live two hours away from Idyllwild and we have regular blue jays here, but no Stellar jay birds.
Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – distant Stellar jay bird
I love this last photo of a blue dragonfly. We have a lot of orange/red dragonflies here and I still have to take a few photos of them, but this is the only blue dragonfly I’ve seen. I feel lucky to have been able to capture it with my camera, since dragonflies can fly for hours without taking a break.
Let’s be wild weekly photo challenge – distant blue dragonfly
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