where’s my backpack travel theme

Travel theme: Stone

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Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “brown”. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

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Sometimes I use stones as a background for my photos, for example to feature raindrops on a spider web.

Travel theme: Stones covered with raindrops on spiderweb

In San Diego, water is a precious resource and stones and rocks are often used as a ground cover among succulents.

I love this stairway on the trail made out of stepping stones.

Sometimes nature leaves you a hidden message as you walk by, like this face in the stone.

Humans have a less subtle way to get the message across on stones.

October 29, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Rock photosTags: hidden face in rock, nature photography, painted stones, photos of stones, raindrops on spider web, raindrops on spider webs, stones as ground cover, Travel theme: Stone, where's my backpack photo challenge, where's my backpack travel theme, words on stones 12 Comments

Travel theme: Brown

Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “brown”. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view.

If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

I wrote a post with a brown theme just a few weeks ago so I thought I’d use some new photos for this post today. Here are some photos I took today and last weekend to illustrate this theme. Trees are mainly what came to mind, like these many brown leaves that fell off a Ginkgo tree.

I’m not sure what type of tree this is but I was fascinated by its reddish brown bark, as well as the many twists displayed on the tree trunk.

Travel theme: Brown and twisted tree trunk

Talking about interesting tree bark, this are the branches of a cork oak tree. This is what we use to make wine bottle corks, cork flooring, cork wall boards, etc. Pretty cool looking, huh?

I snapped a photo of this cute brown mallard female duck today, as she was snacking on some underwater plants. Nature sure knows how to add interesting patterns to brown to make it beautiful.

Travel theme: Brown mallard female duck swimming in a pond

October 19, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Tree PhotosTags: brown ginkgo leaves, cork bark, cork oak tree bark, cork oak tree branches, female mallard duck, ginkgo tree, nature photography, photos of trees, Travel theme: Brown, twisted bark, twisted tree trunk, where's my backpack photo challenge, where's my backpack travel theme 14 Comments

Travel theme: Through

Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “through”. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

Let me take you on a tour through the forest, one of my favorite activities. Sometimes the trail going through is pretty narrow.

And sometimes it is quite wide.

Pine trees have so many thick branches that it can be hard to see the blue sky through them.

Travel theme: the blue sky through the branches

Pine tree sap is see through, although it tends to reflect a lot of its surroundings too.

Sometimes when you hike in a park, a river runs through it.

All the way through.

Forests are full of plants and animals, including insects. Insect wings are usually see through, including the wings of this blue dragonfly.

Travel theme: see through wings of a dragonfly

September 24, 2013February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: Animal Photos, Forest Photos, Landscape Photos, Photography, Plant Photos, Tree Photos, Water photos, Woods PhotosTags: blue dragonfly wings, blurry water photos, hiking trail, nature photography, photography, photos, photos of trees, pine tree branches, pine tree sap, river photos, Travel theme photo challenge, Travel theme: Through, where's my backpack travel theme 17 Comments

Cee’s fun foto challenge: One monarch caterpillar

Travel theme: Tilted

Today I’m participating in Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Theme photo challenge. This week’s theme is “tilted”. Remember you can click on each photo for a larger view. If you like what you see, feel free to subscribe and receive nature photography updates a few times a week.

I took this photo of a monarch caterpillar last week in San Diego’s Balboa Park. I wish I could walk tilted up a tree like that.

Travel theme: Tilted monarch caterpillar

How about this baby panda at the San Diego Zoo, who manages to hang on and take a nap on a tilted branch?

This orange dragonfly can stand still and a bit tilted while barely hanging on to a stick.

Finally, look at these two pine trees. One of them is slightly tilting and to touch the other, then tilting back the other way, as if the trees were kissing.