Soft delicate shades of Spring.

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GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS

THEME: PATTERNS IN NATURE

SUBJECT: MINI CACTUS

FYI … This is the miniature kind. This is probably about an inch and a half at it's widest or less and not even 2 inches tall.

Loofah sea sponge very close up.

Taken for Compositionally Challenged - Week 22 - Patterns in Nature. We are building a home in a neighborhood that is in a somewhat rural area. The neighborhood bear visited our lot this week.

Gladioli are beautiful flowers and climb up the flower stem in repeating patterns as do most flowers. If you look inside there are patterns galore regarding stamens and shape within the flower.

This weeks theme "patterns in nature" was suggested by Cheryl

Patterning in the sand at Clam Harbour Beach.

A recent trip to the Lake District saw plentiful scenes of various grasses some of which showed off their delicate nature.

The pattern of a pine cone around the stem that holds it to the limb.

patterns in nature Pattern for Macro Mondays 65mm x 49mm

The whole flower looked like a Queen Anne's Lace

First venture in Macro Monday, finally getting an image I am relatively pleased with having yesterday deleted the whole 125 photos I took the day before.

Some you win...

Patterns in a current flowing across Port Maitland Beach, diagonally juxtaposed with patterns in the sand created by the tide and waves.

For MACRO MONDAYS, this week’s theme: “Patterns in Nature"

HMM!!!

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Shells have beautiful patterns. Here's a flower for Macro Mondays

Crystals.

“Macro Mondays”, “Patterns in Nature”

Love this flower, I just don't know it's name.

This is a B&W photo of sand ripples on Port Maitland Beach.

The daphne usually starts blooming in January, but this winter the flowers couldn’t stand up to the weather we’ve had. Turning brown before they’re even fully open.

I love how his antennae look like little golden leaves!

My 100X project for 2018: Patterns in Nature. An easy subject for me, because it is what I enjoy photographing. I love seeing the final collage like this to see how the colors of nature change with the seasons, starting with Winter and ending with Autumn.

An early morning in Nant Francon, Snowdonia saw a layer of mist floating over the peaks.

I’m pretty sure it’s the egg of a Northern Cardinal. Or maybe a Carolina wren.

Another invasive species that dominates our plant life in Louisiana. As pretty as it might be, it grows everywhere and will choke out other native plants. It is Louisiana's only climbing fern and grows much like a vine as high as 90 ft.

TGIF.

I found these tiny fern leaves only 1-2 inches long, backlit against the sun. On closer examination I saw the leaves had what I thought were spots on them. But looking still harder I was amazed to see that some neat little insect has laid minute clusters of eggs under each notch in the leaf. At least that's what I presume they are. Did one insect do this? How did it know to lay them in such a precise pattern? Or is it something else, part of the fern? HMM

A beautiful dragonfly with lace wings ...The theme of the week, "Patterns in Nature", HMM!

My 100X project for 2017, Patterns in Nature. I like how this collage shows the colors changing with the seasons.

HMM-- the theme for today, 7/15, is "patterns in nature" and this is one possibility for posting :)

HCS-- food macro

MacroMondays "Patterns in Nature" theme

Hoja nueva de una palmera con las puntas todavía sin estirar / New leaf of a palm tree with the tips still unstretched

Patterns in the sand where a shallow stream flows across Clam Harbour Beach.

For Macro Mondays theme 'Redux 2019', a re-visit of the theme 'Pastel' but would also be suitable for 'Patterns in Nature'. The tiny juvenile snail was shot on a leaf from my conservatory plant Phormium 'Jester', using my Raynox DCR-250.

No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.

Looking toward Nant Peris from Dinorwig Quarry, it is interesting to see the sharp contrast between the beautiful mountains of Eryri and mankind's destructive influence upon Dinorwig Quarry. The sharp slate waste creates an unforgiving environment for nature.