taken on 31/12/2011 using a fujifilm finepix S3200

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

Chain Fruit Cholla, Opuntia fulgida

Lava patterns on exposed rock on Heliotrope Ridge below Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

Tar Spot, Ralfsia pacifica, a brown algae found intertidally at Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Cispus River headwaters in Cispus Basin within the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington State, USA

Intricate ice crystals growing on a window pane in winter in Michigan, USA

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

Coleman Glacier on Heliotrope Ridge belowf Mount Baker, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State, USA

Gray Pine, Pinus sabiniana, needles close up in Pinnacles National Park, California, USA

Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, pattern of exposed wood where bark has fallen off, near Stella Lake along the Alpine Lakes Loop Trail in the Snake Range of Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

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

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

Forest reflections on a pond in Canadian Lakes, Michigan, USA

Closeup of spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Shadows of a shrub in snow in the village of Flateyri along Önundarfjörður (fjord) in the Westfjords of Iceland

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

Valley Oak, Quercus lobata, fallen leaves in December, Pinnacles National Park, California, USA

Sunlit leaf in Gran Canaria

Tar Spot, Ralfsia pacifica, a brown algae found intertidally at Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California, USA

At the lake before the storm.

Bit tricky with a point and shoot.

I think of horror movies when I see large trees with moss hanging. I'm not sure why.

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

Ripples catching sunlight on the surface of Mitchell Creek, Clay Cliffs Nature Area in Big Rapids, Michigan, USA

Ice formations on a cold late autumn morning along Lehman Creek in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

Closeup of spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Closeup of spectacular ice formations of Eben Ice Caves, Rock River Canyon Wilderness, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, USA

Patterns made by receding waves on Shi Shi Beach along the Pacific Ocean in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA

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

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