I apply the tag “Close-Up” quite generously. It can be anything from flower photos to details and textures of objects, or even photos that border the “intimate landscape” definition. Either way, everything where I had a closer look at a single subject is archived here.
A small collection of San Diego native plants with alternate color expressions (most of them white when they’re supposed to be blue/purple/violet).
The first blog post of 2023 has the last photos I made in 2022 — in the morning of December 31st, we went for a walk at the beach. It was drizzly and overcast and I didn’t bring the big camera, but as usual, once there some things were too intriguing to not make a photo of them.
It’s Christmas Eve and at least when it comes to the weather, we’re not really feeling it here in Southern California — a brief warm-up period over the weekend will be followed by (hopefully) some rain, next week.
Sunday we went for a late afternoon walk at the beach, hoping to make a few photos of birds in flight for my photo club’s monthly “Photo Quest”. Since I’m running this photo quest and came up with the theme, I’d better get a photo for it!
I guess at first sight, this is a pretty strange title for a blog post, but rest assured that I’m not actually that full of myself — whether the triptych is truly fantastic is not for me to say! 😅 It is made from detail photos of the Fantastic Lava Beds though, which we saw when we hiked Cinder Cone. :)
As I’m (re) building my photo archive, and in particular the plant archives, I’m grouping the photos into trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs. I follow CalFlora’s classification, and herbs are usually the wildflowers. But there are some surprises in there.