It’s like chocolate, there’s never enough. Okay, sometimes I’ve reached my full level of chocolate, but it’s always good. That’s the way a visit to a lotus pond is, always delightful. Sometimes I like watching the people more that shooting the flowers. Onlookers faces light up, and smiles are abundant. Nature does have a way to bring joy into a bleak year.
So, here’s the rest of my images from William Land Park in Sacramento. If you looked hard enough through the large leaves, you could see some floral reflections.
And then some lucky duck finds a rainbow.
And now on to the Vedanta Society of Sacramento and their small lotus pond. This was a quick visit, and I was dismayed to miss seeing the peacocks. Usually they roam around the area. And in the water lily pond, I saw only leaves, no flowers. But the lotus were not disappointing.
Lotus, like chocolate, begs to be re-visited. Maybe soon, at different angles, different time of day? And did you know that lotus bring you good luck? After posting part 1 of my lotus images I was asked to join the Lens Artists group. I am honored!
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I saw your link and pingback at Cee’s blog. Flower photography is not my specialty so it’s wonderful to see all the amazing photos.
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Thanks David. I hope I did it right. Hate to say it, but I’m still a little confused! So when I see one of the 4 organizers’ blog, that will give me the link to post on? Sorry, I’m technically challenged at 78!
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Oops! I typed a reply, but don’t think I sent it. Cee has posted a list of all the daily, weekly and monthly photo challenges at the link below so you would link or pingback on whomever the host is for that particular challenge. Cee also lists her challenges in the sidebar of her blog.
https://ceenphotography.com/for-the-love-of-challenges/photo-challenges/
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Thanks David. I saw that on her blog. So I go there to get the challenge and then post where? Aren’t you sorry you invited me???
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Hello Anne – sorry we’re confusing you (clearly you are NOT confused on your photography, your images are wonderful!). Cee is a guest host this week, so she doesn’t have our challenge when it first posts. For that you need to either follow us via the WP Reader (subscribe to the Lens-Artists TAG), or follow the 4 moderators – https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/ , https://pilotfishblog.com/ , https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/ and https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/ . Then each week when our challenge is posted at noon on Saturday you’ll see which of us is the host for the week and that’s who you should link to. Feel free to email me at trschell@me.com if you have any questions or find this too confusing. And thank for powering through!
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Thanks Tina! I think this helped. I’ve already subscribed to all 4 of you. So, we’ll see how it goes! And thank you for liking my images.
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The flowers would have been enough by themselves but with reflections they are stunning. Thanks for posting all these lovely lotus pics.
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Thank you Burt and Rusha! It was a great morning.
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I so agree with you that you can never get when looking at lotus flowers. Your photos are so beautiful. I’m envious that you have two places to get photos from. Beautiful post. 😀
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Thank you Cee!
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They are gorgeous.
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Thank you Rupali!
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The first 3 photos are cheating those are single flowers seen double 🙂 beautiful pics
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Thank you Abrie! Believe it or not, those were the only reflected flowers I could find. The leaves were so big and thick!
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Excellent. Love the reflections in the first group. Well done.
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Thanks John! The leaves were so think so reflections were scarce.
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