16. If it's overgrown with vegetation, it's a candidate for this assignment.

Yesterday the Great Pond was opened to the ocean, draining water from the shore, exposing this algae encrusted grasses. I have lived here for 28 years and I have never seen this before - alarming!

Taken in October 2007. The stream approaching the lake.

This was a stream flowing over the cliffs and down the cliff face covering the rocks with green algae. Shot at Sandymouth bay.

Minolta 50

50/1.4 Pentax Lens

lakeside_day4_colors

Sweet old couch at Brooklyn Flea.

I thought the algae looked awesome- kind of like hair....

looking at colour contrasts, red, green,blue.

More solid ice in the yard. Light dusting of graupel (snow/sleet mix).

I like the patterns of the streams of algae flowing in the water of a drainage ditch.

These algae live in near boiling water near the fault line that runs through New Zealand. Almost looks like an aerial shot of a delta but the "lake" is less than a meter long.

Piscina da Caieira, Trilha Atalaia-Caieira .

(Caieira Natural Pool, Atalaia-Caieira Hiking Trail).

Fernando de Noronha, Brasil. Apr-2010.

See where this picture was taken. [?]

Macro shot of algae (fungus).

Bubbles in a bed of algae

nature's painting that I wish I had painted

floating algae on Searsville Lake

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A rare and unusual specimen of algae preserved in clear chalcedony. Originally it would have been growing in silica-rich run-off from geothermal hot springs. Kaueranga Valley, Thames

this is the flora responsible for the breakdown of one of the most unique coastlines in North America. It's eating it little by little.. mmmm

Taken in Yellowstone National Park on my way home from St. Olaf

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Hidden away behind too many unfriendly gates, the German Food Additives Museum is one of those rare places that makes you think about what are we consuming every day. We left the museum wondering about everything that presented and how people should know more about it. This is what made this museum so fascinating.

The German Food Additives Museum tries to shine a light on a large number of additives that are hidden away in the food that we eat daily. From dyes to emulsifiers, stabilizers to preservatives, everything that we eat has some unnatural chemical that is pretty much unknown to the average consumer.

a green algae, growing free here but also occurs as photobiont is some lichens

image 3.5mm across

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Found at Davenport Landing, Santa Cruz Co., CA; 24 Mar 2010.

I think this was along the Melrose Country Harbour Rd. Had to cross a little single lane bridge. Didn't even need a polarizing filter to see through into the water.