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YUCK -- When excess fertilizer runs off into the local stream, algal growth can be kickstarted. (U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture photo by John Pennington.)
Active Assignment Weekly: Taking it back to the basics this week. It's been about six months since I started my photography hobby and I began my adventure by doing an online course through my local community college. Each photographic lesson always began with the same question: What is your subject? Week after week: What is your subject? So this week, let's pay tribute to the basics by going minimalist.
Dare: Let nature set the scene for you.
Restriction: No black and white.
WIT: This pond has been overgrown by algae, but with the bright sun and other vegetations, there were some fun patterns and shadows. Slight adjustment to contrast and clarity with slight cropping and sharpening.
This is a great place to learn how to make algae biodiesel or algae biodiesel photo bioreactors. For the Do It Yourself (DIY) persons full instructional guides. www.algaebiodieselinfo.com/
Water Sample from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Hot Spring Drain.
Photos were taken using the Proscope HR and miXscope.
Low tide at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, California, reveals a world of plants and animals that live most of their lives covered by sea water. An unusual array of plants can be seen in the tidepools waving their colorful fronds in the water, staying afloat with air-filled balls, or spreading out broad damp blades that shelter delicate creatures hiding below them. Some resemble miniature copies of trees that grow on land. Others, like the Branched coralline algae in this photograph, look more akin to coral than a plant. When a branch of coralline algae is washed up on the beach, it turns white from the calcium in its tissues.
Modern land plants evolved from algae living along with aquatic animals as represented in this 1930 illustration by Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s staff illustrator Maud Purdy.
First attempt with Lumix GF1 camera attached to Zeiss intermediate photo tube. 32x Zeiss Plan Achromat lens, modified brightfield setup. Diatoma vulgaris or Diatoma hiemale?
Stayed on the beach on the Palm Coast in Florida for a couple days. Its winter time, so the weather was mostly cold and cloudy, however a huge improvement from the 10 degree weather at home in Colorado!