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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Another Cosmos Flower

January Zelene 8:19 PM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Flower 101 , Macro Monday , Monday Mellow Yellows , Today's Flower 20 comments

I've seen a lot of cosmos flowers but mostly are orange and yellow. It's my first time to see cosmos with combination of light yellow and pinkish stripes. Saw them at hubby's aunt's front yard in Bukidnon and they really are pretty.

Photos taken using Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 DG Macro attached to Canon EOS 60D.

Today's Flower

Macro Monday

Monday Mellow Yellows

Orange Impatiens Flowers

January Zelene 10:56 PM Canon 60D , Flower 101 , Impatiens , Macro Monday , Mandarin Orange Monday , Sigma Photos , Today's Flower 13 comments

Have you heard about impatiens flowers? I did for the first time at my brother in law's house in Bukidnon. His wife had planted a lot of flowering plants in their front yard. One of the flowers I saw there and was able to photographed is called Impatiens. Seen two colors actually, but today I'll feature one color only, and a very striking one, an Orange Impatiens Flowers.

Impatiens also called Busy Lazzie is a beautiful annual plant that will definitely give colors to your garden. Impatiens grows well in moisture and shade areas.

I wanted the same flowers in our frontyard too, but I do not know it it will survive the hot weather of Cagayan de Oro City.

Next time we visit Bukidnon, I make sure bring seedlings with me.

Photos taken using Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 DG Macro attached to my Canon 60D. I love using this lens whenever taking macro photos because it definitely gives cleaner background compared to my other lens.

Today's Flowers

Macro Monday

Mandarin Orange Monday

Nymphaeaceae - Water Lily

January Zelene 7:28 PM Canon 60D , Flower 101 , Outdoor Wednesday , Water Lily , Water World Wednesday 4 comments

Nymphaeaceae commonly called Water Lily is a family of flowering plants that live in freshwater areas like ponds and with tropical climates around the world.

I saw these water lilies in a man-made pond somewhere in Bukidnon, I asked hubby to pull over for me to take some snaps. The weather was not that good, hence the photos are not well lighted. I wanted to take a closer shot, unfortunately this is the most my lens can take me. Nevertheless, they still look great for me.

Next time when we visit the province, I hope to see them blooming again and hope they will be little bit closer to the edge of the pond for me to be able to take a close up photos.

A share for Water World Wednesday and Outdoor Wednesday.

Baby Papaya Fruits + Papaya Flower

January Zelene 8:08 AM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Flower 101 , Fruits , Macro Monday , Monday Mellow Yellows , Papaya , Today's Flower 19 comments

Can't get over with the papaya yet, I've been talking about them for the past weeks and I still can't believe that after I had posted the dismay we had thinking we're not be able to taste any fruit from these ladies that we had planted in our frontyard, now they actually are actually giving us hope.

Because after we saw little babies evolving from the flowers of the second papaya plant (photos above), a single baby fruit (photo below) also had appeared from our first papaya plant (finally).

We're really excited how these babies will grow. Meanwhile our third papaya plant is already starting to give us blooming yellow flowers.

The light yellow flower is a delicate beauty.

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Monday Mellow Yellows

Macro Monday

Mimosa Pudica

January Zelene 1:59 PM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Flower 101 , Macro Monday 7 comments

Mimosa Pudica locally known as "makahiya plant" in the Philippines is a pantropical weed. It has a slender prickly woody-stems that grows up to 1 to 1.5 meter long. Makahiya plants are indeed sensitive because it close or fold its leaves inward when touched. Hence, it is also called sensitive plant or the touch-me-not plant.

Macro Monday

Orange Sky at Cabanglasan

January Zelene 4:54 PM bukidnon , Canon 60D , Skywatch Friday , sunset 9 comments

This is how sunset looks like beyond the coconut trees and mountains of Bukidnon, taken in front of my inlaws home at Cabanglasan Bukidnon.

Orange sky, just a perfect sunset on a perfect weather. I'm glad I was able to snap this scene the moment we arrived at Cabanglasan because the following day the sun was covered with dark skies and pouring rain.

SkyWatch Friday

Artificial Waterfalls

January Zelene 6:55 AM Canon 60D , Nature Footstep Water , Water World Wednesday , waterfalls 4 comments

I shot his artificial waterfalls at Apo View Hotel in Davao City. I was trying to make the water look misty but I don't have my tripod with me. This is the last setting that my hands can hold without shaking the camera.

Sharing this photo for

Water World Wednesday

NF Waters

Lovely Mums

January Zelene 1:32 AM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Flower 101 , Macro Monday , Mellow Yellow Monday , Today's Flower 11 comments

"The beauty of life is not measures on how happy you are,

but on how you give happiness to others."

These lovely mums were taken using Canon 60D while they were seated on the dashboard on our way to the cemetery to visit my daughter's grave.

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Mellow Yellow Monday

Macro Monday

Meet Kung Fu Panda

January Zelene 5:15 PM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Macro Monday , Mellow Yellow Monday , Non-Living Things 8 comments

Kung Fu Panda is one of my favorite action-comedy animated film, Po is such an adorable "big" creature who strives to be a kung fu master and luck and his fatty body made his dream come true. :)

During the world film showing, Mcdonalds featured Kung Fu Panda characters in their happy meal. I was able to complete the first collection and managed to get four (4) toys of the second collection. Among the characters of course, the adorable Po is my favorite. Here he is...

Po from Kung Fu Panda 1

Baby Po from Kung Fu Panda 2

Po also from Kung Fu Panda 2

I love to collect toys from Mcdonalds because they are beautifully made and are worth collecting.

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Little Butterfly

January Zelene 2:52 AM butterfly , Canon 60D , insects , Macro Monday , Mellow Yellow Monday , Today's Flower 10 comments

Miss Duranta had a little visitor.

I kept on snapping and he didn't mind,

he never paid attention because

he's so busy sipping the nectar.

Thank you little one for posing for me this afternoon.

Today's Flower

Macro Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Goodbye 1000D! Welcome 60D

January Zelene 8:42 PM Canon 60D , Close Up Shots , Flower 101 , Flowers on Saturday , Gadgets , Macro Monday , Mellow Yellow Monday , Today's Flower 15 comments

I'm saying goodbye to my first love, my Canon 1000D, his time is up, the errors keep on coming and the pop-flash won't work anymore. His quality service to me will finally end after four years.

After saving up for my WANT for a long time, finally she's here, my new boyfriend, my new Canon 60D DSLR Camera with 18-135mm kit lens. Yippee!

I been wishing for her for quite some time now, in fact she's in my birthday wishlist for 2 years.

Too excited... I pointed the lens to anything I see around me. But I chose to share the following taken from our front yard with no tweaks just straight from the camera, no particular setting, only the picture mode was set at "P".

The yellow okra flower

The violet flower that I seldom get the right color when photograph. But with 60D it turn out well. A little practice with the setting, I think I'll be able to get it right.

Dry weeds, I was trying to focus the Christmas tree like branches but to no avail, I think a different lens will do.

The papaya leaves.

The Croton plant, locally known as San Francisco plant. It has tiny flowers. I took a macro shot of this flower sometime ago here.

The flower turn out well, after cropping the above picture.

It will take me forever to master this new gadget, but I think I'll do great in the distant future. For now, I'll take it one step at a time. Goodluck to me!