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

A South African monkey beetle burrows into a Gazania flower.

This is my third and last entry, and I think the most successful one photographically. Even enthusiastic beachcombers may fail to recognize this: the top of a Portuguese man-of-war washed up on the beach.

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

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

[Iris siberica]

Snow-covered sedge growing in a wetland on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Photo by David. The patterns of water in sand at low tide can take on so many interesting forms.

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

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

Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus, needles against a background of sun sparkling off a windy lake in Michigan, USA

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

Snow-covered sedge growing in a wetland on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

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Purple sand accumulated by wave action on Shi Shi Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA

plants in the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden

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

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

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

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

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

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

A high-contrast study of the hydrophobic surface of a Tropaeolum majus (Nasturtium) leaf. Captured during a heavy monsoon storm, the image focuses on the perfect spherical refraction within the central droplet. Shot with a 55-250mm lens, utilizing natural "low-key" lighting to emphasize the leaf's organic geometry.

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

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

Gentle waves patterning one of the Tipsoo Lakes along the Naches Peak Loop Trail in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State, USA

Note very fine hairs on thorax, legs and wings.