Again with the coral tree flowers I seem to be developing an unintended specialty in my landscape photography of photos of coral tree flowers. (Such as this new one.)

I'm on vacation this week, so today I decided to drive out to the City of San Diego's Lake Murray, a water reservoir and recreational area.

My first thought for the visit was to get in a good exercise walk while enjoying the sights of the lake, but I also brought along my point-and-shoot camera in case I came upon anything that attracted me for photo purposes. (Might post more of them later in the week.)

So, I found one coral tree, and it was blooming flowers like crazy in only one section of it's branches. I have no clue why flowers would be growing in that manner, but there they were, so I took several exposures

Also took several shots of the lake with intent to generate a panorama. (By using Hugin, but the result was unsatisfactory, due to my letting the camera drift up and down too much.)

Labels: coral-tree, flowers, Lake-Murray, reservoir, San-Diego

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  Can anyone identify these trees? Please follow this link to see a set of photos of trees in San Diego, especially the flowers growing on them. I have been unable to identify what tree this is.

Any help in identifying these trees will be appreciated!

Labels: flowers, San-Diego, trees

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  Wow A forum that I participate in for users of digital cameras recently has been running a project to create, using photos submitted by forum participants, some calendars, the sales of which would go to benefiting a charity.

A little earlier in the year I had taken a photo of a flower that I was particularly pleased with, so I decided to submit it to this project for the "Flowers" calendar. I had little confidence that it would be accepted for the calendar, as the forum has many outstanding photographers which more experience than I, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to try.

So, I was completely flabbergasted when my photo was in fact selected to be included in the "Flowers" calendar. It will be the October photo.

I'll quote description of the project from the calendar sales site:

A little over a year ago, some forum members from BroadbandReports.com's Digital Imaging forum discussed how to collectively use the photographs that they were taking to help out a charity. The result is Shooting For A Cause. Currently, we have a line of four calendars. Five dollars from the sale of each calendar will go to help The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®.

Labels: calendar, flowers, photos

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