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  • Spring 2026 Orange Tree Blossom Photographs (And an Update on the Tree’s Health)

    July 14, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! In spring, the orange tree in my yard did something my relative and I didn’t think would ever happen again: It grew green leaves and blossoms. The orange tree, which is around 15 to 20 years old, was suffering from major problems. It wouldn’t grow leaves and any fruit it grew was not good. It was in such bad shape that my relative, whom I live with, was planning on getting rid of it. Before then, he decided to try something to see if the tree can be saved. It ended up working and it saved the tree! (The tree was suffering from lack of nutrients and correct…

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  • 2026 Spring Orange Tree Blossom Photographs

    April 17, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! I had to take a few days off posting this week to focus on offline things. During this time, I realized I didn’t publish a post with photographs of my relative’s orange tree blossoms! This year is a big year for the tree. It is blooming more blooms than it has been for years. This is due to some changes my relative made in caring for it, including adding fertilizer. Now it is happy, green, and was full of blooms earlier this year! I enjoy taking pictures of the plans my relative and I own, so I wanted to share some of the orange tree blossom photographs I…

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  • October 2025 iPhone Sunset Photographs- Part 2

    March 13, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! It’s time for the second post in my two post iPhone sunset photography series. In this series, I wanted to talk about photographs I took in October 2025 of a desert sunset. The first photographs, which I already talked about in a post here, is of a saguaro cactus with the sun setting behind it. For this post, I will talk about the photographs I took of the same saguaro cactus on the same day, but from a different angle. At the time I took these photographs, I wanted to see how well an iPhone’s photos can be edited in a new photo editing software I was trying…

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  • October 2025 iPhone Sunset Photographs- Part 1

    March 9, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! In October 2025, I decided to try to use my iPhone to take some photographs of a sunset and the desert. Prior to this, I was using my iPhone for a few months to take photographs of nature. I did this just to know the difference between my camera (A Cannon Rebel T7) and my iPhone. (I already knew my camera was (And still is) better at taking photographs, but I still wanted to take pictures and compare them in new editing software I was thinking of using) On this day, I decided to use the iPhone to take picture and not my camera as well. After editing…

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  • Cactus Flowers- November 2025 Part 2

    February 5, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! I like to go on hikes on land my relative owns. The desert there is really pretty and makes for great photography. During one of these hikes in November 2025, I discovered two of the cacti on the land were blooming or were about to bloom. I really like to take photographs of the desert in the area, so I decided to take photographs of the cacti and their blooms. I didn’t have my favorite camera, a Cannon Rebel, with me. Instead, I used my iPhone. The photographs turned out pretty good sans for a critique of how I actually photographs the blooms (Maybe I could’ve done more…

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  • Cactus Flowers- November 2025 Part 1

    February 3, 2026 /

    Hi everyone! In November 2025, I discovered one of the barrel cacti near where I like to walk and take photographs of began to bloom. I like seeing the cacti in the area with blooms, so I took some photos of it. A few days after taking these photographs, I took some more photographs of a different cactus in bloom, but I’m saving those photographs for a different post. I used an iPhone 6s to take all the photographs in this post. I like the modern day iPhone cameras, but I prefer my Cannon Rebel. Sadly, I didn’t have it with me that day. So the iPhone must do.

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  • Discovering One of My Favorite Photogenic Cacti Has Died- Cactus 2

    August 11, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! Well, the time has come to talk about a second cactus that has died. This time, it is a saguaro cactus. This cactus was my favorite saguaro cactus to take sunset photographs of during the late fall, winter, and early spring. The sun would be perfectly positioned behind it, making the best sunset photographs. Earlier this year, I discovered the cactus had finally died. I wasn’t surprised it died because it looked like it has issues for the past three or so years. Still, it made me upset and very sad to see that it has finally passed away.

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  • Discovering One of My Favorite Photogenic Cacti Has Died- Cactus 1

    August 4, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! Well, this post isn’t a very happy one. I discovered earlier this year one of my favorite cacti I would take photographs of has died. This isn’t the only cactus I loved to take photographs of that has died, but it is the first I want to talk about.

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  • Arizona Sunset Photographs- December 2024 Part 2

    June 26, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I’m back with more old photographs I took of a sunset in Arizona last year. Like with Part 1, I took these photographs of an area where I like to photographs sunset, sunrises, and the desert in general. I knew it would be changing sooner rather than later, so I like to take photographs of any pretty sunset in this area. I took these photographs using the camera on my smartphone. I didn’t have the chance to get my Cannon camera, so I used my phone. Also, I took all the photographs in this post on a different day than the photographs in the Part 1 post.

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  • Arizona Sunset Photographs- December 2024 Part 1

    June 24, 2025 /

    Hi everyone! I’ve found some more photographs I took last year of sunset in the Arizona desert. I was taking as many photographs as I could when the sky was nice last year. The desert where I normally like to take photographs is changing… again. I wanted to take as many photographs I could before it changed so much I couldn’t take photographs of the natural desert. I took the photographs in this post using a smart phone. I wanted to take photographs using my Cannon camera, but I could use it on this day.

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