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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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Crazy Tuesday theme, Patterns in natures. This whole frame is patterns. From the green to the dead leaves eaten by ants to the bokeh in the back. Thanks for getting me outside. HCT

Fortunately they are hanging in a place we’re no one will walk under them. They’re huge!

Do you see the spiders?

A calm and misty atmosphere in Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia.

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For Macro Mondays: Patterns in Nature theme

This ivy leaf is 2" long.

This is a close-up photo of elegant beach sand patterns created by the tide at Martinique Beach.

Macro Mondays 'patterns in nature' theme.

A Scarlet Tiger Moth, taken at Fishlake Madows nature reserve. You can just see a glimpse of the colour that gives the moth its name at the centre - with its wings spread you would see that the underwings are this vivid colour. It was first for me though it's fairly common in the south.

My moth book says it's forewing measures 22-26mm in length so I estimate the image is no more than 5 cm

Shot 58/100x

Fishlake Meadows, Hampshire

Macro Mondays...Patterns in Nature...HMM

Black Swallowtail [Papilio polyxenes] caterpillar

Peace Valley Park

Doylestown, PA

2776*

I have three ceramic ladybirds climbing the pole of my patio. But they represent patterns in nature - spots and halves of the wings.

Multiple exposures in camera for the image. HMMM:))

PAPILIO MACHAON (Iphyclides podalirius) SU FIORE DI LAVANDA.

È una farfalla di grandi dimensioni (mm 64-85). È diffusa in tutta l'Europa con l'eccezione delle zone settentrionali. La farfalla è di colore bianco o giallastro con tipiche linee zebrate (5 o 6), bruno scuro o nere, che partono dall'area costale, più larghe, per raggiungere restringendosi l'area anale; la zona prospiciente il corpo è tendenzialmente scura. Le ali posteriori, anch'esse bianche o giallastre hanno la regione sub marginale di colore nero o bruno scuro con delle lunule di colore azzurro intenso.

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PAPILIO MACHAON (Iphyclides podalirius) ON LAVENDER FLOWER.

It is a large butterfly (64-85 mm). It is widespread throughout Europe with the exception of the northern areas. The butterfly is white or yellowish in color with typical zebra lines (5 or 6), dark brown or black, which start from the costal area, wider, to reach the anal area, narrowing; the area in front of the body is generally dark. The hind wings, also white or yellowish, have the sub-marginal region of black or dark brown color with deep blue lunules.

CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM

These cheerful little sun-loving drought-tolerant daisies from the Cape dominate the Balcony Mix sown in a big tub this spring with a wide variety of colours.

I used to call them Mesembryanthemum (or something like that) and their scientific name was Mesembryanthemum criniflorum but is now Cleretum bellidiformis

Leaf pattern for HMM!

For #FlickrFriday 's challenge, #Delicate

Very center of a cone flower.

An unusual cultivar of the Annual or Chinese Aster (Callistephus chinensis)

I just love the variety of shapes and colors and patterns.

..drried hydarange petals. HMM flickr friends

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

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

HCS-- food macro

Pic for Macro Mondays topic: patterns in nature__Birch tree

Summer beauty

Macro Mondays Theme: “Patterns in Nature”

auch wenn es größer aussieht, die längste Stelle des Blattes misst 5,5 cm

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Taken for this week's Macro Mondays theme: Patterns in Nature.

I know these leaf shots are kind of cliche here on Flickr but I wanted to do this one for today because leaves are so full of detail and patterns which look like a maze going this way and that way. Around here we have plenty of leaves so it wasn't hard to find one to use.

Thank you for your visits, comments and faves! HMM to all!

Flickr Lounge: 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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When I saw the sky this morning the term mackerel sky came to mind so I googled it. Interesting to learn the names for these clouds formations in other languages: "It is sometimes known as a buttermilk sky, particularly when in the early cirrocumulus stage, in reference to the clouds' "curdled" appearance.[7] In France it is sometimes called a ciel moutonné (fleecy sky); and in Spain a cielo empedrado (cobbled sky);[8] in Germany it is known as Schäfchenwolken (sheep clouds), and in Italy the clouds are known as pecorelli (little sheep)." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackerel_sky

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!

In the ponds alongside Beech Gardens in the Barbican Estate, City of London

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

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