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Monsoon season is such an amazing time of the year in the southwest. When I saw the sky morphing into a rainbow of colors, I dashed out into our yard to grab a shot of my favorite saguaro cactus against the vibrant background. So blessed by the dramatic skies and amazing nature here in the Sonoran Desert. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2024, Happy New Year! If you enjoy saguaros, here's one of his neighbors: flic.kr/p/2rp7cTF .
This rose is growing in a neighbor's yard in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Taken with my iPhone 14 Pro Max set to raw and macro.
Hibiscus I don't remember where I saw this, but I think it was on a neighborhood street in someone's front garden in NYC.
Another photo from a walk at lunch. It seems that taking pictures of food or flowers has become my go to subjects when I'm running low on motivation or ideas for my Project 365.
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Week 26 Celebrate
Happy 10 Year Anniversary to this awesome group
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and a BIG THANKS to the people creating, maintaining it and all the participants for making it such a unique, friendly and fun place! It's highly appreciated.
Shot with Carl Zeiss "Graphikon" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
The Bullock's oriole would have a hard time to conceal itself from anyone entering its space, the beautiful yellow/orange feathers unfold its beauty from a distance
The plant is called Speedwell, which is a hardy, upright perennial known for its long slender flower spikes. They are popular in floral arrangements and gardens for adding vertical contrast.
On a morning walk / hike through one of the Eastern Sierras numerous aspen groves, I came across a group of young aspen trees taking root just beyond a much larger group of mature trees. In kind of a gesture by these mature trees, they seemed to say... "Look over here... these are our youngsters." And they seemed to say it in that "proud-parent-kind-of-way" ;)
A 200 foot tall tree stands out on the side of a volcano in Costa Rica...
The tree is nearly a mile from the camera, the background ends around 2 miles distant. This is what lots of humid air looks like...
Dahlia against monochrome background.
Thank you so much for your views, comments and faves! They are encouraging as I continue on my photographic journey.
This was a "first" for me. I heard this bird singing before I locate it and thought at first that a mockingbird was in the area due to the changing songs being sung. These Thrashers are said to have a repertoire that has more than a 1000 different songs.
There were several flowering trees visible from the path and around the lake. This struck me as an interesting scene with the green and white.
On an overcast day, silhouetted against the distant trees this 600mm lens captured one rapeseed flower above the sea of subdued yellow ... enjoying its own light.
Mitakon 42.5mm f1.2 Manual Lens
Wide open this lens isn't as sharp as I would like it, but ah well, I prefer to make the most of the tool.
I was shooting sunrise one morning and the fog rolled in on an adjacent mountain. As the fog swirled around, this guy stood out against the whiteness.
Just trying something different on both this and the adjacent shot.
We were on a bluff above the ocean and the surfers were riding the waves below, off stage right.
The cool wind was blowing and the best place was lying in the sun under the big pine trees on the edge of the bluff, as you cam see here.
The mid afternoon sun was dancing off the surf.
Black can be beautiful
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