Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
Cee’s Black & White Challenge– Hot and Cold Items
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Pick Your Topic from My Photo
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Pull Up a Seat:
Coleman’s choices for Pulling Up a Seat in August differentiated from various Playground equipment to Picnic Table and Lounge chairs and even to Sand and Rocks. I never know where he’ll select to Pull Up a Seat. Where will you Pull Up a Seat this week?
Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens and iPhone 14 Pro Max
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This is a throwback photo from January 2018 taken on a visit to the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is a 170-acre zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden located along the Saluda River in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Riverbanks is home to more than 3,000 animals that represent over 400 species around the world.
The Zoo first opened its gates to the public on April 25, 1974. It has continued to be a popular destination to connect and learn about wildlife life for individuals, families, and groups. It is considered one of the largest mid-sized zoos in the United States. It draws an estimated one million visitors annually.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone X
Taken: 2018 January 7
Location: Riverbanks Zoo and Garden; Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Avon Catawba Creeks Greenway Trail; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #262: Framing Your Photos
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Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i and iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Lineberger Park; Gastonia, North Carolina
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As Seen From the Y:
These were all taken while relaxing in lounge chairs outside of the YMCA on Friday, August 11 angled in different directions.
Cosmic Photo Challenge-The Sky’s the Limit
Hammads Weekend Sky #111
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: By the Lake; Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Clare’s Share Your Desktop
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Ludwigs Monday Windows
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina
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Macro Monday-Butterfly Bush
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Lineberger Park; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters
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Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2023 Week 32
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura Wide-Angle Fish-Eye Attachment. f/5.6 • 1/80 • 55mm • ISO160
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Sunday Stills: Aug 13 Monthly Color Challenge: YELLOW (any shade)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Johns Cellpic Sunday
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Hopefully this counts, it not a lake, river, creek or any other waterway. Instead it is of a Splayground, or in other words a Splash Pad.
I took Coleman to Lineberger Park where there is a Splash Pad known as Splayground. I believe he had tons of fun. He thoroughly enjoyed himself and wished he could have stayed longer.
It’s a delight when I can bring a smile to my grandson’s face and watch him enjoying himself having a fabulously funtastic time.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max … All Rights Reserved.
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These are just a sampling of what the weather has been like in my area. Storm after storm after storm keeps thundering down upon us. It might start out sunny in the mornings, but then by nightfall it is pouring down with thunderous rain again. At other times our mornings could start out with dark cloudy skies full of raindrops falling down our way. Sometimes it rains all day and then other times it will clear up during the afternoon only to have thunder showers again during the evening hours.
So to say I am tired of having rainy days is no small feat. I think we have had more rain this summer than any other summer in at least the last five years; ( note: my opinion only). I just wish with all this rainfall that our creek would rise, our spillways would be overflowing, and our lakes and rivers would rise. At this time period, our creeks are dry in a lot of areas, are lakes, rivers, and streams are down. Our spillways are not flowing; I love to see the spillways overflowing. Henceforth, even though I am tired of the rainy days I know and understand we need the rain.
Hammads Weekend Sky #110
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
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Edible Berries:
Melons:
Corn:
Wheat:
Nature Photo Challenge #24: Ediblem
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
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Leannes Monochrome Madness
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Cee’s Black and White Challenge-Shoes, boots, slippers (August 10)
Photo Credit: (c)Deb L. Waters
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XingfuMama’s One to Three Processing Challenge: August 2023
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EFS 18-55mm lens with Altura Fisheye Wide Angle Lens Attachment
All Effects were created on Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge- August Old Brick (deep rusty red) Color
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It just seems fitting that the Prompt for Wednesday is Cat. Coleman and I went to The Schiele Museum of Natural History and then across the road to the Gaston County Library. While we we walking around The Farm at the Museum I spotted a cat 🐈 roaming around behind the chicken coop.
Normally cats are not the type of animals one sees in The Farm. Goats 🐐, Sheep 🐑, Chickens 🐓, Rabbits, and Turkeys 🦃 are the farm animals that are kept and cared for here. Cats 🐈, however, are not what’s cared for here.
Evidently, this cat 🐈 thought it belonged roaming around at The Farm. Therefore, I snapped a few photos of it. Then, I read what the Prompt was and knew that it was fate that I spotted the cat 🐈 yesterday.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Color vs. Black & White
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge -Contrasts
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina
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This is a rare occasion when Coleman has his mom running around and playing with him. She’s usually working all the time, seven days a week. She’s usually exhausted when she gets home from working and her only desire is to relax. Therefore, seeing her having fun outdoors with Coleman brings joy and sunshine 🌞 to my soul.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Leigha’s Sunny Sunday Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens. f/7.1 • 1/400 • 300mm • ISO1250
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina
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Lines Shot on Canon:
One Word Sunday: Lines Pt 2
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina
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Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2023 Week 32
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra Wide
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina near Goat Island Park and Greenway
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Have you ever seen an Eumorpha pandorus? I had not seen one before today. Do you know what it is? I did not when I first saw it as I looked through my kitchen window. Usually I only see the pesky flies I posted for Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge – Denzil Nature #23-Flies.
The Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus), also called the pandorus sphinx moth, is a North American moth in the family Sphingidae. It is a large, greenish gray moth with darker patches and pink edges and small pink eyespots. The underside is usually pale yellow-green or brown. It has a wingspan of 3¼–4½ inches (8.2–11.5 cm), females being slightly larger than males. Pandora sphinx moths fly during dusk. Some places see only one generation a year, while others…. iNaturalist.com
This Pandora sphinx moth was very different than other moths I’ve seen hanging around and definitely not one of the pesky flies that can be annoying.
Adult moths fly at dusk. Like other Sphingidae, adult pandora sphinx moths have a long proboscis that is used to feed on nectar.
The species is widespread in the east, the southeast and the center of North America, from Nova Scotia and Ontario to Florida and eastern Texas. It is not present in Mexico or the American Southwest. Wikipedia
What do you think about my new visitor? I that it was interesting. Since I did not previously know what it was I had to look it up. Being new to me I thought I’d share it with all of you, my friends. The Eumorpha pandorus decided to hand around all day and last I checked was still hanging around.
Ludwigs Monday Windows (I know it’s not Monday but couldn’t resist linking it up anyway.)
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: My Kitchen Window; Gastonia, North Carolina
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One Word Sunday: Lines
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina
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Taken Sunday afternoon, 6 August 2023, on way to car before the rainstorms began pouring down from the thunderous sky.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina
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The Carolina Wild Petunia are extremely common in North Carolina. They are found in lawns and woodlands. This Wild Petunia was seen at Anne Springs Close Greenway along the trails at the Adventure Road Entrance. Many times, even though these flowers are beautiful, they are overlooked and sometimes considered a lawn weed. The Carolina Wild Petunia’s flowers only last a day, but they also have a long flowering period which compensates for the shorter blooming time.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f/1.8 • 1/387 • 6.86mm • ISO64
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Shot from my iPhone while leaving Goat Island Park before the rainstorms let loose their mighty power.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Ludwigs Monday Windows
Denzil Nature #23-Flies
Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Simply Orange
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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I never know how many photos I will have to delete whenever Coleman gets ahold oh my phone. This time it was over > 100 photos. Luckily I caught it in time before the backup to the cloud was initiated.
Some of the other photos were similar to these and others were of the rug, parts of his train tracks, or nothing at all. Hope you are not bothered too much by the open with food it mouth shots. It just turned four (4) so his pictures can be interesting at times.
Photo Credit: ©️Coleman Gouveia
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Lazy Days Coleman Style:
Sunday Stills-“Lazy Days of Summer”
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
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Johns Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Big Cats Exhibits; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina
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Alive and Trekking blog, Which Way challenge
Weekly Prompt’s Wednesday-Roads
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Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2023-Week 31
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina
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The specific epithet carolina refers to its native habitat in the eastern United States. It grows in woodland edges and openings. Flowers attract bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up of Macro
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Photos 1-2 & 4-5 ~> iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 