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Green algae in the still water of a pond in The Fox Island Allen County Park near Fort Wayne, Indiana
Thallus to 12 cm in diameter, saclike, hollow, spherical when young, becoming convoluted, ruptured, and irregularly lobed when old. Firm, tough texture, consisting of large bubble-shaped cells that are easily seen by eye. Rhizoids are short, branched or unbranched.
Daughter segments are formed as occasional segments become inflated, forming large monostromatic bladders attached to the parent plant. They may remained attached to the thallus or break away and become independent plants. Grass green, but sometimes blueish in color. Dictyosphaeria cavernosa is found attached to rocks or coral rubble on shallow, calm reef flats and in tidepools. Young plants may form small clusters of "bubbles" scattered among turfs on hard substrate. Older plants can form large convoluted mats from 1 to 10 cm thick that may cover large areas subtidally to 59 meters. Nuweiba, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt.
Today I took a short hike to this place where I thought I would see some mud cracks due to the drought. To my surprise, I found a pool of colorful water. I suspect the colors were caused by the algae as some of the water puddles in the salt ponds were quite colorful. The sight of this colorful pool was actually quite eerie especially there was nobody around in this area which is quite far out into the bay. As I did not have my ultrawide angle, I had to take multiple shots and stitch them into a pano.
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Lens: EF 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM
In shallow pools left behind as the falls flow receded. If you look closely at the edges of each bubble, you can see reflections of the other bubbles around them...and I think I'm in there, too.
A perfectly suited musical piece
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles
Blue-Green Algae (Cyanobacteria) - they can release toxins that are harmful to humans, pets, livestock.
The brilliant algae covering the moving stream that carries the hot water from the source to the hot pools
I'm no expert so can only wonder whether it's a good place or not for a mother Mallard with new brood.
Makes for an interesting image with the algae forming at Lake Eppalock. This one captured March 6.
ISO 200 | 1/400 sec | f/7.1 | 8mm | 5 images
An arrowhead crab, Huenia heraldica, decorated itself with algae to make itself look like a piece of Halimeda algae.
Looks pretty menacing. I think the thing that looks like a bit of piece of lokum/Turkish delight is a sea gooseberry.
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I discovered this green algae covered slough (secondary channel of a river delta) in Moss Landing, California. Although a bit disgusting, I think the swirls and reflections make up for an interesting scene.
HDR, 3 exposures, 2 f-stops, RAW, NEX-6. DSC06602_3_4_hdr3crea1c