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.

Frozen algae, on the beach in Brador, Quebec, Canada.

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.

Wandering during the last few days in a thermally active area behind the Sierra Nevada, I happened to find a beautiful hot spring in northern Mono county, California. The unbearably hot water (around 50°C, or 120°F) deposited beautiful albeit minuscule terraces of travertine upon cooling, and flowed downhill creating ponds and rivulets. In some of these, the temperature seemed to be right enough for algal blooming, like in this image. I loved the tenacity of life, algae living in hot water while the snow was around me, and as I always side, I love green, particularly this hue. The scale on this image is essentially 1:1. One can see the dry grass on the edge of the rivulet and the full color of the algae below the water. Flow direction is right to left. The algae is actually anchored to a thin veil of calcium carbonate (travertine) that encrusts the stream bottom.

Bridgeport, Mono county, California

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.

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.

Stanley park ocean - red seaweed, 40x, DIC

The hand isn't photoshopped in... I just realized that the shadow cast by the hanging muck might look like I put the hand in.

Algae in a lake. I stirred it with a stick!

Students from Longfields ES learn how to collect and identify algae

Antibacterial hand lotion required for anyone going to feed the Ducks at Winterley Pool, Haslington, Cheshire.

01/12/2016

Algae and sun in local creek -- Missouri Ozarks

This is a piece of local algae I pulled from our towns hot spring

drain. It seems to be mostly layers of blue green that have collected

together to form mats. I have a lot more work to do and will need

another more powerful microscope to actually attempt to ID any further.

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.

echo beach, sask

..that was truly thick, like a billion spider webs glued together with candyfloss

Yellowstone geyser runoff water temperature ranges are distinguished by the different color algae that can grow in differing temperatures.

Yellowstone National Park

Canon EOS Elan IIe w/ Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 (I think)

Blue-green algae / limu (Genus:Hormothamnion) at Lisianski Island in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

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A close up view of the Algae on the tree trunk - Wisconsin.

Tree roots and green algae

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from "Space Flight and how it Works"

Edited ISS038 image of red algae growing in really salty water in a drying pond in an arid area. The red is quite striking...

The edge of one of the steps in the fountain.

(Google Maps) Outside the Royal BC Museum.

Interesting colored algae

The warm weather and sunshine has made for excellent algae conditions. The white cloudy stuff is a bloom in South Puget Sound. Credit: Ashley Ahearn.

Diatom. Photo taken with Zeiss PMII scope 40x plan objective and Canon EOS 60D camera equipped with Zeiss 47 60 10 intermediate tube and Leitz 4x projection lens. Modified brighfield.