Seen when I was last able to get out for a good long walk, rather than a quick race round the car park!

Better viewed large.

Thank you for your favourites. :O)

Crazy Tuesday/ Patterns in Nature. HCT

The 2nd part of the lens test. Even with the aperture wide open I could get very sharp pictures. It seems that this combination (Sigma 150-500 mm f/5,0-6,3 APO HSM + Sigma APO Tele Converter EX DG) works very well.

Taken with Helios 44-2 58mm f2

it is part of one of my dad's footprints - some might be able to know what shoes he was wearing :-)

on white:

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the series can be viewed here flic.kr/s/aHsmVqo6J2

Thank you for your visits, favs and nice comments! 🙏

A macro photo of a blue bath sponge.

Patterns in Nature

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[Olympus OM-01]

Pumpkins at a friends farm.

HTM!

for : Saturday Self-Challenge: repetition

thanks for all your visits

A closer view of a section of the previous photo.

Light Patterns depth of field results from a telephoto lens creates this broken appearance in the back ground, late Summer shadows, found in North Carolina.

The eigth in a series of a dozen or so recent digital patterns, created from scratch in Photoshop.

A section of "Spaceship Earth" at Epcot.

This is a close-up photo of ice in a shallow channel of the river.

After going on a few recent road trips, we are content to stay home now while gas prices soar. I am grateful I have a safe home to be in. So I am working on images from our trip last fall still. This scene of a beach in PEI shows an interesting pattern of erosion on the sand dune. It was not there when we walked by on our way out to the water’s edge. I don’t think it was wind that created the repeating pattern. I think the edge of the dune just gave way in these specific sections. It looks like sheaves of wheat the way farmers used to leave in the field many years ago. It made me wonder how often the landscape changes in a day by the Atlantic shores.

Patterns made by the frost in the park.

In Explore Jan 16th, 2016 at 311.

Happy Smile on Saturday ( with the theme K)

La Crécerelle d’Amérique est le plus petit faucon

du Québec. Son cri aigu caractéristique trahit sa

présence dans les champs, malgré sa petite taille.

Comme chez la plupart des faucons, on peut

observer sous les yeux des crécerelles des rayures

noires verticales, appelées moustaches.

Le mâle a les ailes bleues ardoisées et le dos brun

rougeâtre tacheté de points noirs. Sa poitrine

rousse porte quelques taches noires et sa queue

rousse n’a qu’une seule bande noire à son

extrémité. La femelle a les ailes et le dos

complètement roux et tachetés de noir. Sa poitrine

porte de fines rayures foncées. Sa queue rousse

porte plusieurs petites bandes noires.

I have no clue what kind of flower this is other than its bud is quite photogenic. This was shot in the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden a few weekends ago. I did not have to do much to this photo, since the bud did most of the work. Anyway, really fun photo that I had fun trying to shoot. Enjoy! :)

A beach rivulet winds down to the sea...

Fascinating cloud patterns in the skies over Grand Mere Beach on Lake Michigan.

take a L oo K in L

Patterns in the ice on Lake Butte des Morts, Terrell's Island, Omro, Wisconsin

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