Green algae makes landscape like on distant planet

Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) eating a walnut while standing by an algae-covered tree.

Wiewiórka (Sciurus vulgaris) jedząca orzecha włoskiego stojąc przy porośnięteym glonami dzrewie.

Lafayette, Colorado

In the SF Botanical Gardens there's a pond with a thick bright lime surface that's thick as pudding with a few sticks poking through.

Water surface reflections.

Momma makes sure her children eat their greens. The sound of baby coots is a real pacifier for me :)

A lot of turtles look pretty grubby when they live in the lakes and ponds of the city parks

Sunrise skies over the old pier .

Another from the archives that was waiting for attention. The early spring yellow algae? was attention getting.

At home

Once the fall monsoons ramp up and scour the footprints of cows and Labor Day campers, I'll head back up to one of my favorite spots where every few years, the water levels in the lake are low enough to venture out onto the mud flats. I've only witnessed twice the algae that stretches between mud cracks, dried weeds, and rocks. It's space alien green and covers everything with a furry skin.

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Spiny chiton

Hampstead Heath

Above water at minus tide,

North Point, Morro Strand State Beach,

Morro Bay, California

In spring and summer, the ocean returns much of the sand that was washed away from beaches during winter storm surf, with results such as this.

This is one of the Red Algae.

Yachats is a town on the Oregon coast just north of Cape Perpetua. The white foam you often see on the ocean beach is primarily caused by the breakdown of organic matter, particularly proteins and fats from decaying algae and other marine life. The foam this day was the thickest I have ever seen, probably due to the very heavy wave action. It clung to the rocks and looked like snow.

This is a photo that I took while canoeing of some sinister looking algae growing on the bottom of the river, and the reflection of my hand holding the camera.

ODC-Bridge Over Troubled Waters

I used the photo below as my template to create this in DDG-Text-2. Green Water is troubled water and we have it here in the summer in Cayuga Lake. It's full of Algae Bloom and dangerous to swim in. It can cause some nasty skin rashes. Much of it occurs from the fertilizer that people put on their fields and lawns. It runs downhill into the lake since it's in a deep valley.

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Green Algae covering Coppice pond

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Palas Cinema building, Galway City

I am drawn to cast concrete construction, especially when it starts to accumulate algae and lichen on the surface.

Algae

Swan feeding on algae with out streched neck.

Just back from a fabulous little holiday to the Isle of Arran. Will be going again one day!

cool colored algae at a rocky beach in Hawaii

Wilson County, Texas. Pond algae. No direct color editing.

The sun was shining on this seaweed making it a lovely rich colour, which caught my eye as I walking along the beach

Red seaweed on golden sand, taken at Jurassic Coast, UK

Round the back of the Waterlily House at Kew Gardens, one of my favourite spots for an abstract as the state of the light, the windows and what can or cannot be seen through them is constantly changing.

Ladner BC Canada