PatternsInNature photos on Flickr

Macro of a stainless steel and turquoise pendant with the chain draped over soapstone. There is pattern in the stone and curves in the setting. Pendant 1" tall.

Jewelery March 04

Curves June 17

Patterns in nature July 15

Chain Dec 09

Buckeye butterfly. by Jeanne

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Patterns in nature for Crazy Tuesday by Zandgaby

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Turning by Sian Matthews

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ducks in a row! by kazzandco

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Update: This photo was chosen for the Somerset wildlife trust calender. For the month of April 2014.

Spirals by Matthew Johnson1

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Taken to support the Macro Monday theme of Patterns in Nature

Macro Mondays - Patterns in Nature by benno.dierauer

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The Fighting Tiger by Annette Dahl

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After recently printing an all time favourite image of mine, Beck Abstract, I got re-inspired to try and do more such water ripple reflection abstracts. It came just in time for my holidays in the Swiss mountains. I found a lovely mountain creek, with beautiful colored stones in it and for a change the blue sky and the sun provided the perfect conditions for this kind of shot, as the rippels then really shine. I spent many hours and I could have easily spent even more time just doing that, trying to find nice stone and ripple arrangements.

Well, but that is only half of the story. After returning home and looking at the images on the big monitor, I began to see creatures in the images, created by the form of the rippels and colors. Some were obvious, and for others I had to search a bit longer. I am totally fascinated by this, although or maybe because it is not something I can control in anyway. It is just a surprise, whether and which figures reveal themselves from the pictures. So, I surely will be doing this kind of photography more often in the future.

However, in this particular shot, which I call, The fighting Tiger, the sun was briefly covered by a cloud, that is why the ripples do not shine or reflect on the ground.

#ripples #movingwater #patternsinnature #patterns #naturalpatterns #inspiredbynature #abstractphotography #movingwater #natureabstract #waterabstract #water #fightingtiger

Vibrant Variegations by raaen99

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Tulips come in a variety of colors but how about patterns? Why stick to a solid colour – as beautiful as it may be – when you can have stripes or more correctly variegations of different shades adorning your blooms?

There are records of variegated tulips going back to the 17th Century. Traditionally, variegated tulips were the result of a virus infecting the plant. Known as Tulip Breaking Virus this family of viruses causes the colour to be broken into stripes in the leaves of the flower itself. Infecting budding plants with Tulip Breaking Virus used to be the traditional way of creating variegated tulips. Unfortunately, infected plants were also smaller and more sickly looking. These days, modern variegated tulips are the result of deliberate hybridization where genetic manipulation replaced the role of the virus.

This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.

This week the theme, “patterns in nature” was chosen by Cheryl, Cheryl - Vickypoint.

The beautiful variegated tulips in this collage, with their striking striped petals, were photographed at the 2019 Tesselaar Tulip Festival. They are:

Left: Flaming Flag.

Middle: Gay Presto.

Right: Flaming Parrot.

The Tesselaar Tulip Festival is held in Silvan every spring since 1954. It has become one of the most iconic tourist attractions in Victoria where more than 120 varieties of tulips are shown on a 55 acre farm. Established by Dutch immigrants Cees and Johanna Tesselaar in 1939 the farm originally grew a selection of tulips, gladioli and daffodils. After initial success, the Tesselaars purchased more land in Silvan. They grew more tulip bulbs and it attracted people to stop by their property and admire their fields. In 1954, Cees and Johanna decided to publicly open the farm with a silver coin donation for the Australian Red Cross. Today around 900,000 tulip bulbs are planted using modern machinery and around another 80,000 bulbs are planted traditionally by hand. The Tesselaar Tulip Festival has been evolved over the years to include music, food and wine festivals to attract more visitors during the spring tulip season of September and October.

by Jeanne

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Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetland Centre by Joan Disley

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Slimbridge WW showing the lovely patterns through the reedbeds and in the water and sky for 116 pictures in 2016 Patterns in Nature number 19

I waited and watched the branch in the water for Kingfishers but none appeared.

Little Daisies by Sian Matthews

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These lovely little flowers were on chunky plants around the Gasholders, Kings Cross, Central London

Gold petal patterns by Monceau

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Patterns in nature - Macro Mondays

The portion shown fits the size guidelines for Macro Mondays.

Native azalea opening. by Jeanne

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Leaning in. by Jeanne

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Next Generation of Sycamores 03192016: Explored #346 by Ginger Adams

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116 Pictures in 2016 #19: Patterns in Nature

These are the seed pods from a sycamore tree. They're so elegant, I think. They're covered with alternating points and openings creating a very pretty pattern.

patterns in nature by skloi

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macro mondays

All Paths To ONE - MM - Theme- Patterns In Nature by Praṇav - Let there be..... LIGHT.

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Kleinia grantii by Sian Matthews

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Seen in the Arid House at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, native to East Africa.

A polished Ammonite fossil shell half. Patterns in nature. by Pixel_peeper

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Have always loved collecting ammonite shell. Fibonacci spirals in these shells are beautiful.

Struktur by Luna _

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Elephant Moth by Jeanne

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Is it an elephant or is it a moth? hint: I found it in my gardenia bush:)

Coastal Abstracts by Tom

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A selection of my favourite intimate landscape images focusing on patterns in nature. All the images here were taken along a small stretch of the North East coastline between Seaton Sluice and Whitley Bay.

I love shooting the coast, it’s such a dynamic place to work, with the ebb and flow of the tides constantly shifting the sand, leaving intricate traces of the forces of Mother Nature on the landscape

Cardinals in the dogwood tree. by Jeanne

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MM - Patterns in nature - July 15, 2019 A Hosta leaf after a shower. Even the raindrops have a certain pattern to them. by Rene' Slack

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Patterns-in-Nature by bonhiver69

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Macro Monday Theme

Macro Mondays: Patterns in Nature by Gero Brandenburg

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HMM!

Summer Forest by Jeanne

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