Thank you for your friendship and comments etc. Due to chronic poor health I'm unable to take on new contacts but do my best to reply to comments. More of my shots can be seen on

www.ipernity.com/home/351433

Some days the tide is full of algae, while others it's not.

Ocean Park, Washington/

Two leaves on the river with a ton of algae made for a strange photo, but one I like.

Closterium

Taken at the Billy Franks Nisqually Wildlife Refuge at the front of the Visitor's Center.

Any algae specialists out there?

My submission for 52frames week 31: Choose a Color.

Green is the chosen color. Although, a case could also be made for white.

Algae

Algae.

Rocks along the coast of the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet was home to these vibrate green algae pools

Algae in the rock at Tow Hill forms a pattern

Some sort of algae experiment.

This grebe was swimming in a sea of algae on Commonwealth Lake.

Ptilota densa grows on coralline algae as well as on rocks in low intertidal and subtidal water. These are worn specimens cast ashore and the Ptilota shows some yellow-green that would be red in life. The coralline, possibly Lithothrix aspergillum, is a lighter pink in life. Both are Red Algae. Measurement across the specimens ~6" (15cm).

Montana de Oro State Park,

San Luis Obispo Co., California

view large View On Black

At least my previous shots at Denver Botanic Gardens showed clean, dark water. I threw in this reverse shot at Longmont's Golden Ponds where the water was not so clean this summer when upkeep was up to nature when the news was everywhere of blue-green algae, not orange-man algae. Denver cleaned up their geese problem and provided food for the poor. The Golden Ponds in Logmont are well fertilized by the goose poo and grow vast amounts of water goo. At least the geese fertize land and water until it can be paved and sterilized toward the goal of total global warming.

Here is that Soylent Green (fine Japanese sea weed?) duck food around shore. The wealth of new life around this place shows that a new generation of water fowl (fouling) has sprouted at Golden Ponds Park at Largemont, Colorado. The river level is now coming down as the serious summer heating and resident high pressure settles in and moves very slowly because we ruined the jet stream. Oh well, we can all hide in air conditioning so long as we can throw the electric power away and burn more fossils.

I suppose that these ponds' water plants thrived around the shores throughout summer. The weather quit bouncing back and forth in the valley with our slide into record winter. Mid-westers and Eastern Trump Grumpers poopoo global warming but here we are.

I found this in my stash from a recent walk around Golden Ponds and thought it would fit in right here, It really signalled the heavy spring greenup after the big wet which dried up this fall.

I was at Golden Ponds Park at Largemont, Colorado and I was with the normal zoom lens on my camera, good for some tighter riparian shots and growth.

A very common lichen, Xanthoria parietina which likes nutrients, found everywhere but mainly on posts, rooftops,rocks etc where birds perch

In the splash zone on rock rejected from the output of the lime kiln at Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan Island in Puget Sound

Algae-covered water blends with field.

And rock details by the creek .

Obi Obi Creek

Maleny

Sunshine Coast Hinterland

CV15 III with 6-stops filters, and GND 0.75.

Sans craindre le vent et le vertige - Ojard

Female mallard eating algae at the streams waterfall.

Nikon W300 Coolpix

12th October 2023

Coonarr Beach Bundaberg

Australia

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are a type of microscopic, algae-like bacteria which inhabit freshwater, coastal and marine waters.

Cyanobacteria photosynthesise like plants and have similar requirements for sunlight, nutrients and carbon dioxide to grow and produce oxygen. There are many different varieties of cyanobacteria. While often a green or blue-green colour, they can also be white, brown, blue, yellow-brown, or red.

If conditions are suitable, cyanobacteria can increase to excessive levels and form visible ‘blooms’ which can lead to poor water quality and the potential for toxicity.

Cyanobacteria can cause environmental problems, disrupt drinking water supplies, recreational activities and water-dependent industries, and pose a risk to livestock, wildlife and human health.

Blue-Green Algae collecting against the dam walls at Cairn Curran. The green caught my eye and looks great on camera but the smell was pretty bad so I quickly moved away!

ISO 200 | 1/400 sec | f/7.1 | 7mm

How about this for Smile on Saturday's combination of flora and fauna... A snapping turtle laying eggs and covered in algae.

Water algae on a rock at the beach, Alexandria Egypt

GTF sample, 10x*1.25, DF, HF B

Here is a macro 1:1 of the Hollow Green Weed algae, growing on the rock formation. Press "L" for large

Spanish: Aproveche para tirar un macro del alga pegada a las rocas. Oprima la "L" para Grande.

Location: north of Washington oaks state park beach, Palm Coast, Florida.

Data: Olympus EPL2, 50mm Zuiko and 50mm extension tube, handheld, 1/320, ƒ/11, ISO 200. (Note: Exif data never show f/stops or FL of manual focus lenses with adapters.) Process: Edit raw file on Olympus Viewer 2. Sammy Santiago Profile/My Flickr Blog

Looking up the tree trunk with sunlight filtering through the canopy.

walking on the beach

These ducks dive below the algae and water weeds, hunting for small fish.

Please press L for larger view.

Raw file processed in Lr 6.14(Mac).

GTF sample, 4x*1.25, FLUO-C4, HF C