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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.
Just a lucky shot where the sun's rays spread out over the turtle I was shooting. A moment earlier, the Yellow Tangs had been nibbling algae from the turtle's shell.
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
My sister holding some algae, it was so weird, yet cool. I know this picture is nothing special, but I just love the colors.
A cypress tree showing off some bright orange fall color, in an oxbow lake in the Delta region of Arkansas. The green stuff in the water isn't algae, it's actually a floating plant called duckweed.
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.
8x10 pinhole very close to water (algae) level, making the algae look much more expansive than it was. That log in the water was only about 25 feet away while the opposite shore was easily several hundred feet away. The foreground is very stretched out.
Efke IR820 with 25a medium red filter and about a 2.5 minute exposure. Developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 10 minutes (drum).
At Verkeerder Kill Falls, noticed this algal "curtain": a continuous sheet of water with long strings of algae hanging down. A curiosity.
Blue-green algae / limu (Genus:Hormothamnion) at Lisianski Island in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
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One cell of the colonial diatom Melosira shown with the filamentous alga. Photomicrograph taken with a Coolpix 885 at 3x zoom, using an Olympus microscope equipped with Hoffman Modulation Contrast optics, oil immersion at 1,000x magnification.
Listen to your body. Literally. Did you know that our bodies transmit electro-chemical messages that form a different rhythm for every individual? Or that your pee is not just waste but a great indicator of your health? At tonights Biotalk we took control of our own bodily functions and explored the field of natural medicine and bacteria. With the critical design practices of Thought Collider, Martijn Engelbregt's 'Medicijnfabriek' and Teresa van Dongen's bioluminiscent light installation Ambio.
Link event: www.mediamatic.net/380687/en/rhythm-of-life
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Cladaphora are freshwater algae that grow on submerged rocks, logs and other hard surfaces. Research has linked cladaphora blooms to high phosphorus levels resulting from fertilizing lawns, poorly maintained septic systems, inadequate sewage treatment, agricultural runoff, and detergents containing phosphorus.
PondZilla is very effective, when used as an adjunct to an algaecide or herbacide*, at controlling filmantous bacteria in ponds such as cladophora.
Aquafix created PondZilla utilizing the latest in enzyme technology to degrade 30-60% of pond muck at 1/10th the cost of physical cleaning*. Pondzilla helps degrade muck and sludge in lakes and ponds by activating the muck layer and stimulating bacterial activity. It contains surface-activating agents, which liberate pond muck and allow the active ingredients to speed up nature’s natural decomposition cycle. It works particularly well in ponds with filamentous problems.
*While bacterial products cannot kill aquatic plant growth, when used with algaecides or herbicides, they can help restore natural balance.