Macro Mondays Theme: “Patterns in Nature”

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Sea Urchin shell for the Crazy Tuesday challenge: "Patterns in Nature."

Part of a burned and weathered river red gum found in a dry watercourse on the edge of Mount Remarkable National Park near the town of Melrose in South Australia.

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Happy Macro Mondays

This week's theme: Patterns in Nature.

When I read this week's theme, I immediately thought of my Maranta Plant (sometimes called the prayer plant). From the first time I saw it in the florist shop, I was fascinated by the design on the leaves.

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An intricately marked female slowworm (Anguis fragilis) against a background of moss 'stars'

Turban shell

For the Macro Mondays challenge "Patterns in Nature" ( July 15th 2019)

Seashells always amaze me. How can so many shells have the same design, patterning, colour and size! Maybe they are as diverse among the seashell world as we are - but to foreign eyes they all look the same ;o)

There's a shot of the seashell in the first comment field, along with the the size-guide I use for MM.

HMM to everyone, and have a great week ;o)

My 2019 Macro Mondays set: Here

and previous years of the challenge:

My 2018 set: 2018 Macro Mondays

My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays

My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays

My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays

My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays

My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays

Macro Mondays: Patterns in Nature

For MacroMondays, Patterns in Nature

Macro Monday's 15-07-2019 theme this week is "Patterns in nature"

I thought this Starfish (Sea Star) skeleton washed up on a beach looked nice.

This image shows the top section and five calcareous segments protruding upwards.

Most Sea Stars as scientists would like them to be called have five arms, they are simple sea animals lacking a brain.

They have calcareous plates that move with one another to form flexible joints.

The mouthpiece is located in the center of the underside.

They eat using their stomach that leaves the mouth and surrounds the prey, then returns to the mouth ..... gross.

Sea star's have a 35 year lifespan, and have no blood either.

There are 2000 different species of Sea star.

Oh' yes the Sea star can regenerate and grow back a lost limb, but it would take around a year to achieve.

They only live in saline seas, not fresh water.

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Do you see the spiders?

HMM-- the theme for today, 7/15, is "patterns in nature" and this is one possibility for posting :)

HCS-- food macro

A walk in Manesty Woods in the Lake District saw the beginning of the fall of autumnal leaves. This arrangement had fallen on a bed of lichen.

Summer beauty

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Making space for the new season. The woodland floor evolves with colour and textures.

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MM theme´s of the week is #patternsinnature#

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This is a Salsify seed. It is looks like a large dandelion seed and grows wild. I brought it home, stood it in a vase, added a bit of light to highlight the pattern. This seed at the widest measures 1.5 inches in diameter. I did make an adjustment to contrast in post production.

#macromondays #patternsinnature

On tour of the Lower Antelope Canyon. In the Navajo Nation Reservation area in LeChee, Arizona, United States.

Lichen reproductive organs - apothecia- are round and occur in great profusion on the body of this lovely yellow lichen. While not a regular pattern per se the profusion of roundness is the pattern of nature seen in many lichens. This one was on a fallen branch at Cardinia Reservoir on our extremely wet weekend. Possibly a Xanthoria species. Sometimes these fruiting bodies are called fairy cups.

Lichens, or lichenised fungi, are organisms made up of a fungus and one or more algae or a cyanobacterium in a symbiotic relationship. Australia's has lots of algae and I once worked, many years ago, with one of Australia's well known lichenologists!

Another kind of ice flower. Does anyone else see a large flower in there? These patterns formed as the lake began to thaw. We went from a week of frigid weather to a spring-like day yesterday.

Each little star is only a couple of millimeters across.

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On a hot hike in the Valley of Fire State Park today when this little guy came crawling out of a hole. Must have just got out of bed because he just sat and watched me crawl closer and closer taking pictures as I went. He finally had enough and wandered off. Happy Bastille Day

The wonderful contrast of frozen river ice over a bed of colourful rocks on the River Etive, Glencoe, Scotland.

Pic for Macro Mondays topic: patterns in nature__Birch tree

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