First light on the Navajo Sandstone formations of White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

Popcorn clouds, also known as cirrocumulus clouds, over trees on a winter morning in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

We found this cute little toadstool under the pine trees in the park right next to our house.

ANSH 36 Item 16 Patterns in Nature

Patterns on water

Water drops and reflections on a car hood in Michigan, USA

California Black Oak, Quercus kelloggii, leaves in autumn color in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Snails making patterns in sand, which is atop a smooth rock, at low tide in Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Popcorn clouds, also known as cirrocumulus clouds, with contrails on a winter morning in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

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

White Oak tree in winter in Mecosta County, Michigan, USA

Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) visually transformed by ripples on the surface of the Adams River, during the biggest Sockeye Run in 100 years, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, October, Adams_River_Sockeye_Salmon-963

Sea ice near shore on a cove opening to the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland, Canada

Shadows on a frozen pond just after a light snowfall. The image I used to produce the mirror montage.

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Marsh Creek Lake is clear as glass here.

Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) visually transformed by ripples on the surface of the Adams River, during the biggest Sockeye Run in 100 years, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, October, Adams_River_Sockeye_Salmon-954

I find the patterns of natural processes such as drying, cracking, etc very beautiful and enjoy using them as the basis for creating "natural abstracts". I am particularly interested in patterns of flow and branching, See comment below for the original photo of an emptied paintcan.

Wind rippling the surface of Trap Lake along the Pacific Crest Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

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Backlit closeup of a leaf, circa 2002.

Surface curtains of ice on the cliffs of Tettegouche State Park, where Lake Superior waves crash against the rock, leaving a layer of water that freezes, along the North Shore of Minnesota, USA

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Bark of dead conifer at Iceberg Lake in Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, California, USA

Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides, with tattoos along beginning of Wheeler Peak Summit Trail in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

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Inspiring patterns found in nature. © Dawn Clarkson

Patterns of ice frozen together on the nearshore saltwater off Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada

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

Swirling ice formations in winter along the South Coast of Iceland

Ice cave interior where stream melts snow under a snowfield, near Hogsback Camp below Heliotrope Ridge on the slopes of Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

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

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Rock, probably a skarn showing metamorphic acitivity, in the high country between Melakwa Lake and Melakwa Pass, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA, Rock_Patterns-4

Paper Birches, Betula papyrifera, along a lake in Michigan, USA

Water drops and reflections on a car hood in Michigan, USA

Red Oak leaf and ice on a vernal pond in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA