Picture-A-Week 2019 - Week 14

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, April 1 and Sunday, April 7.

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[TLCOhio]

Spring is getting very closer here in the Midwest.  Maybe, even having arrived!!??  Today was sunny, mostly, and fairly decent from a temperature standpoint.  Tomorrow/Sunday, it will be a high of 70F or 21C.  Flowers are starting to come up.  Below as shown below are some visuals to prove it!!

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

SE Asia/Mekong River, Etc.!  Live/blog from early 2018, first adventure through SE Asia, stops in Hong Kong and Bangkok, before exploring all over Vietnam and Cambodia, seven days sailing on the Mekong River. Now at 45,494 views.

www.boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2591474

 

Here is a just a small, early sampling of the Spring flowers at our home this afternoon.  Glad to be done with winter, snow, cold, etc.!!  More floral delights to come soon!:

(Open your screen/viewer wider to see these pictures larger/better!)

 

 

 

[AL3XCruise]

Still playing with astro photos.  This is Bode's Galaxy, about 12 million light years away.  Not the greatest capture or editing job, but its the first galaxy picture I've taken that looks like a galaxy!  About an 18 minute exposure.

[pierces]

Hailee's first prom. The first thing that went through my head was shock that her mother was letting my baby granddaughter go to a prom. The next was acceptance that she is now sixteen, a Junior in high school and has grown up to be as beautiful outside as she is inside. Lastly was the realization that the job of recording that fact well enough to do her justice was not going to be easy. The venue that she and her friends had chosen had a major removal of its decorative foliage and looked more like an urban strip mall than the verdant winery they remembered. As it turned out, my concerns were groundless. The subject would have outshone the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as a backdrop.

 

Heartbreaker

 

 

Dave

[Krazy Kruizers]

Dave

 

What a lovely granddaughter you have.

 

Her first prom -- time does fly by.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Lovely daffodils -- our are blooming as well.

 

Haven't had a chance to get outside to take pictures.

[puppycanducruise]

Love to see the spring flowers, ours are weeks away from flowering.

Dave, you have a beautiful granddaughter.  She's going to break a lot of hearts.

[tommui987]

WOW!

Great shot of a lovely lady.

Grandfather shows a lot of love in his photo.

[dileep]

Borrego Springs, CA

[dileep]

Metal sculpture in Anza Borrego State Park

[AL3XCruise]

6 hours ago, dileep said:

Borrego Springs, CA

 

 

 

What lens are you using for those?  Beautiful close-ups!

[dileep]

8 hours ago, AL3XCruise said:

What lens are you using for those?  Beautiful close-ups!

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 in intelligent Auto mode.

f/4 1/640 sec ISO-125

[spthealien]

3 hours ago, dileep said:

Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 in intelligent Auto mode.

f/4 1/640 sec ISO-125

 

You're in my neck of the woods! Awesome!

[spthealien]

Took a group camping over the weekend and grabbed some shots from the air.

[kenevenpar]

3 minutes ago, spthealien said:

Took a group camping over the weekend and grabbed some shots from the air.

 

Very Cool!

 

Where?

[spthealien]

Just now, kenevenpar said:

 

Very Cool!

 

Where?

 

Thanks!

These are dunes along the southern California and Arizona border--about 2 hours east of San Diego and half an hour west of Yuma.

[PurpleHays]

The dunes look surreal. 

[spthealien]

3 minutes ago, PurpleHays said:

The dunes look surreal. 

 

The dunes are fantastic and despite me going there on a regular basis (you'll see them all the time on my Instagram feed), they still amaze me. Sunset and sunrise at the dunes are one of my favorite things to see.

[dileep]

San Diego Harbor Dinner Cruise sights.

[zackiedawg]

Late to getting around and sorting the weekend photos.  Finally got them done, so here are some of the local wildlife for this past Saturday in the wetlands:

 

Northern parula with a caterpillar grub meal:

 

Green heron swallowing a fish for a quick lunch:

 

Newly hatched red-winged blackbird chicks begging for food:

 

Eastern screech owl peeking out of her palm-tree-trunk house:

 

Black and white warbler on a branch:

 

Closeup of a cormorant showing his Caribbean-sea-blue eyes:

[boeckli]

Departing Sydney on HAL's Noordam on Apr 7