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The sunken algae (as the result of rainfall) in this pond made for an amazing shot!
This picture made it for the Picture of the Day for CBC Radio 3:
radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2008/06/Image-of-the-Day-June-23-2008
© 2016 Antoine H
This image was taken within Yellowstone National Park along one of its many trails at roadside stops viewing earth's thermal activity.
it's a duck, posing on a little man-made waterfall. the water was very thick with algae, but the birds don't seem to mind.
Many species of pink coralline algae, which cements coral reefs together, cover a reef surface in the Southern Line Islands.
I went to Wickham Park in CT today and I brought only my new 40mm pancake lens with me. Once I started to get a feel for the lens I ended up with quite a few keepers. It's not as "bokehlicious" as a tighter lens would be but I really like the framing it gives.
Found in pond water.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Charophyta
Class: Zygnematophyceae
Order: Zygnematales
Family: Zygnemataceae
Genus: Spirogyra
Photo taken with Zeiss PMII scope 60x dry 0.85 NA Semi-plan Chinese objective and Lumix GF1 camera attached to Zeiss intermediate photo tube, modified brightfield setup. Asterococcus with other algae.
This is not a happy picture: It is an algae bloom at the edge of Waiakauhi, the largest natural anchialine pond at Hualalai. A healthy pond should not have this. Still, I could not resist taking a picture of it for its fascinating texture.
It was directly below this photo: Green Leaves, White Flowers
Will have to ask David Chai about those “trails” when I next see him.
Learn more about David and Waiakauhi here:
On Golden Ponds, a story for Hana Hou Magazine by Rose Kahele
A red algae that grows on snow, with the pouch for my point-and-shoot for scale.
I first saw this stuff above the Cathedral Lakes ca. 1989.
Wikipedia says it's also called 'watermelon snow', officially Chlamydomonas nivalis.
The fur of the Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is impregnated with algae. During the rainy season the fur of the sloth becomes green with growing algae. This sloth was photographed during the dry season when the algae is more brownish than green. It is believed that the algae/sloth is a symbiotic relationship. The hair on the sloth is grooved to provide the algae a place to live. Sloth hair is unique in that if the tip gets wet during a rain the water flows down the shaft (mixed with by-products from the algae) to the base of the hair where it is absorbed through the skin. The leaves that the sloth eats are low in energy producing nutrients (the reason sloths to not move fast). The absorbed by-products from the algae likely provide a needed food supplement. Near Marino Ballena National Park, Costa Rica.