Whale bone, located at the office on Round Island, Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA, July, AK_Round_Island-247

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Navajo Sandstone shaped like cauliflower, cracked into polygons, at White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Aerial View

Meltwater pattern on Peters Glacier

South Georgia, Antarctica

7th in the series

Coral Bay Eco Tours

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski introduces keypoints that will introduced during the interactive STEM keynote workshop for parents during the Expanding Your Horizons Conference held at University of North Florida Feb. 2011.

Ropy Pahoehoe lave in fanciful forms in the Kalapana area of Puna District, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

American Beech, Fagus grandifolia, leaf shadows on a Northern Red Oak tree, Deerfield Nature Park, central Michigan, USA

I have always loved the lines (patterns) in sedimentary rock, and last week while I was on a quick trip to Portland, I was able to get out to an old haunt, Two Lights State park to capture this. (truth telling, I took it about 9 hours too late, on 9/9...)

Shell of a living tortoise.

Best seen on black: press L to view.

Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa, killed overnight by a vehicle along a road in the North Shore region of Minnesota, USA

Goose Barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus, on rocky habitat at Tongue Point in Salt Creek Recreation Area along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Patterns created by overnight freezing of ice on a March night in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Dry desert land along California State Route 166, here call the Cuyama Highway, near the Carrizo Plain, with great clouds overhead, Southern California, USA

Nature is there for us to admire and embellish. All it takes is a little imagination and an easy technique:

Lichen Caloplaca sp. (possibly Caloplaca ignea, Flame Lichen) making cryptic patterns on a rock along the Nub Peak Trail; Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, Mount_Assiniboine_Lichens-1

This is the first large daisy that bloomed over the last couple of weeks and there are many more following this one ~ hopefully all as beautiful.

Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 28) ~ Patterns in Nature ....

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Ice and leaf patterns in ice in early spring in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Ropy Pahoehoe lave in fanciful forms in the Kalapana area of Puna District, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Dead juniper in Aguirre Springs Campground, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico, USA

Unusual Rock Strata, Honeymoon Cove, Pt Samson, WA

plants in the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden

White Oak, Quercus alba, leaf on Beaver pond with tree reflections in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Aerial View

Moraine on Peters Glacier

South Georgia, Antarctica

Pinyon Pine growing on Navajo Sandstone shaped like cauliflower, cracked into polygons, at White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

This piece of ice in a little creek caught my eye. I just love the abstract pattens formed. I have pasted a blurb from the link below about Sudden Tract. This tract has a gorgeous moraine.

The Sudden Tract

If you enjoy hiking or cross-country skiing, this area of rugged moraine hills, well developed trails and abundant wildlife, is for you.

The Sudden Tract, one of the larger natural areas in the Region, contains, in addition to representative habitats and species, many Carolinian forest species, as well as some unusual northern plants and animals. The well marked and developed trail system, part of which is the Grand Valley Trail, conducts the visitor to most parts of this natural area and beyond. Within an afternoon you can see oak-hickory forest, some plantation, silver maple swamp, and sugar maple-beech forest. Frogs and snakes are abundant and easily seen on many of the swamp-side paths and along scenic Township Road 4 which bisects the area.

Ample parking is available in lots at the entrance off Highway 24a or off Township Road 4.

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Painting from the recent solo exhibition Chronocromie: The Colour of Time, held at the Air Gallery, London in October 2010.

See more work at www.marcocrivello.co.uk/

Bubbles created of natural oils from plant decomposition on the surface of a lake in central Michigan, USA

"Pattern's In Nature"

A brown snake sunning itself in the late afternoon light on the road between Quorn and Hawker.

I didn't dare get any closer as it was well and truly alive. There was another car coming down the road so we made sure the snake went on it's way.

Bubbles, created in winter by the photographer, rapidly form ice crystals on the inside surfaces, Michigan, USA,

Ropy Pahoehoe lave in fanciful forms in the Kalapana area of Puna District, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

The weather has finally gotten warm enough to venture outside without too many layers. I went for a walk at The Forks with most of the citizens of Winnipeg. I came across this pretty plant in the snow. The twists really intrigued me. Nature makes some amazing shapes.

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My eldest daughters painting when she was a toddler around 18mths

I've created an shop on Etsy to sell some of my macro photography. I've listed a couple of photos either in 8x12 or 12x18 size. When I get more free time later, I will post some more...

In case you are curious here are the names I considered for the shop

TheNatureOfPatterns

CapturingComplexity *

EmergentNature

PatternsInNature

NervousPhotography

TheComplexUniverse

The body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, whether radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry or spherical symmetry.

Mitchell Creek with tree reflections in late autumn, Big Rapids, Central Michigan, USA