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

Panoramic merge of 2 images.

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.

Macro Mondays theme: "Patterns in Nature"

White-faced cockatiel feather (1.75 inches)

I hope you will enjoy the other feather images following this one in my photostream.

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

BY EMILY DICKINSON

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

A field of flowers within a flower.

...And that's only about a quarter of the sunflower head.

Sunflowers offer abundance in so many ways. Getting up close to its flower face before the seeds begin to mature, reveals hundreds of mini flowers with tiny stamens and pistils. The tight spiral designs from an earlier stage broaden into what looks like arched rows fanning out from the center in both vertical and horizontal curves.

A sepia, painterly treatment lends a sculptural quality to the

details of this image.

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Macro Monday Theme

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Leaf from one of my green bean plants. It has shriveled up and is less than 2". The plants are winding down after a prodigious crop of green beans.

Macro Mondays theme:Yellow

Loving the intricate design of nature, it never ceases to amaze me.

Fallen

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Nikon D7200 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 FX Macro Lens (AT-X M100 AF PRO D AF 100mm f/2.8)

f/9 @ 1/500 @ iso 800

(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)

This is my submission to this weeks theme of Patterns in Nature HMM

For Flickr group "MACRO MONDAYS", topic: "Patterns in Nature"

For Flickr group "Mittwochsmakro - Wednesday Macro"

Macro Monday - Patterns in Nature

Underside of a fern

Sword ferns with a beautiful coating of hoar frost near Gordon Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Autumn bliss.

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

feuille de cornouiller en début d'automne

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

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.

Magnification 🔎: 1:1 x 1.6 Crop

Lightning 💡: One remote controlled Canon Speedlite 600EX II-RT from above.

I wish you a happy Macro Monday and a great week.

Macro Monday 15TH July

patterns in nature theme

thank you for viewing and commenting .Happy Macro Monday.

This is a leave starting to turn brown as it is nearing the end of fall in the Southern Hemisphere and heading into winter - This leave is aging beautifully

Dahlia

Physalis alkekengi

For #MacroMondays REDUX 2019, #In-A-Row and #PatternsInNature

(visible width ca. 2.5 cm)

I don't know what formed that halo of light at the top. If I knew I would make it happen again, because I think it looks really cool:) There's usually a small flare where the sun hits it.

I'm learning a lot about ice bubbles this week:)

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

Close up of a pine cone

Happy New Year, Everyone !! :)