Monday, July 12, 2010

San Francisco Botanical Gardens Photo Contest!


There are many, many bloggers who take amazing photos of pets and wildlife and other animals for the Camera Critters meme.  I generally can only visit a few each week.  I try to visit new posts...it's a great way to meet other like-minded animal lovers!

That's how I "met" Joanne of Poetic Shutterbug.  She did a Camera Critters post on some of the animals at the San Francisco zoo and the photos are just outstanding.

You can see the photographs HERE.

What I'm leading up to is this...I'd like to share another post the Poetic Shutterbug did about a contest that's being sponsored by the San Francisco Botanical Garden.   I've just entered it and I'm thinking that so many of you post gorgeous garden photos and you might like to enter, as well.  Sounds good, don't you think?

The photo I entered is this one.  You might remember it from a post I did while on Bainbridge Island.

Jack and I spent a day at the very beautiful Bloedel Reserve and this is one of the plants in the Bird Marsh...it's called Swamp Lantern (also Skunk Cabbage).  I thought it was gorgeous and was amazed that it has a not so pleasant smell and emits enough heat to melt snow!

So check out the contest and spread the word.  I think it's a great idea and I know lots of you have taken beautiful pictures that would be perfect for entering.

NOTE:  The photograph does not need to be from the SF Botanical Gardens.  Here's what the post says:

"Now we realize many of you have not visited our gardens. That is okay, you can still enter to win. Upload a favorite garden inspired photo with your own inspirations."

Let me know if you do enter and good luck!
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17 comments:

  1. Sounds like a neat contest, but I don't fit the criteria of the rules. Never took a picture at the SF botanical gardens.
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  2. You can use any photograph that is garden related. Doesn't have to be from the SF Botanical Gardens at all.
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  3. Cheryl, thanks for the post, very kind of you and I love your entry. You are right. You do not have to enter a photo of the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. You can enter with any garden/nature related photo you have. Hope to see everyone there. Thank you.
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  4. I think I'll go enter right now. Your skunk cabbage photo is beautiful...and the fact that it emits enough heat to melt snow is amazing!
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  5. You're welcome, Joanne! I'd love to see lots of entries from my blogging friends.

    Ethelmae, I can hardly wait to see your entry!
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  6. I'm not a photographer at all, but you sure are. That's wonderful!
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  7. Cheryl, that is such a great photo (but it just goes to show that beauty isn't necessarily everything.... sometimes beatiful can be stinky, too!)
    I'll slip on over and check out the contest but doubt if I have a picture worthy of entering.
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  8. I liked them on FB but did not send in a photo. Don't know if I will.
    Love yours though.
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  9. Beautiful photo Cheryl, I'll check it out but not sure if I'll enter a photo yet. I'll browse through my flower photos and see if I have anything which might be worth entering.
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  10. Blueviolet, thank you...you're a sweetie-pie!

    Terry, you should enter that photo you had on your notecard that you sent me...of the tree. It's so pretty.

    POD, if you don't enter I'll be disappointed. You take awesome garden photos!!! Get over there and enter!! That's an order!

    darlin, you've taken some gorgeous garden inspired photos, too. Are you going to make me go through your blog and choose one for you? Because I will.
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  11. Thank you Cheryl and for the fun of it I added the one with the bee, I had to spare you the trouble of going through all of my posts! :-) Out of curiosity does any one shot of mine stand out in your mind or are you like me and view so many photos in one day that it's hard to say in a moments notice?
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  12. Beautiful picture of a plant, or flower, that I have never seen grow wild, only in pots here in Scandinavia.;) Hope you are having a lovely summer,
    xo
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  13. That's a wonderful photo and I wish you luck.. I hope you win. :) Thanks for sharing the contest details.
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  14. Its a beautiful photo and I wish you luck with it.
    maggie X

    Nuts in May
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  15. Sounds like you're having a great time!
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  16. darlin', I think that's a fine choice and I'm glad you entered the contest! I also love the "peony" photograph you took. At least, I THINK it's a peony :-)

    Zuzana, this is definitely a wild flower/plant. It's considered a weed, I think. I think it's pretty but apparently it's not something we'd want growing in our gardesn. Especially if it has a nasty smell - ha!

    Thanks, Hilary. But if anyone should enter that contest, it would be you. Honestly, you need to enter...your photography is just amazing.

    Thank you, Maggie May! How about entering a photograph from your collection? Like the lily pads and the ducklings?
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  17. Thanks for the visit, Ms. Sparrow! Yep, we're having a great summer. But it's going too fast.
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