Taken with Helios 44-2 58mm f2

Schagen … Nederland

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“The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.”

― Sharon Weil

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This shot was taken at Keukenhof (English: "Kitchen Garden"), also known as the Garden of Europe - one of the world's largest flower gardens. Keukenhof is located in South Holland.

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The 2nd part of the lens test. Even with the aperture wide open I could get very sharp pictures. It seems that this combination (Sigma 150-500 mm f/5,0-6,3 APO HSM + Sigma APO Tele Converter EX DG) works very well.

Zeiss 100/2 Makro Planar

the series can be viewed here flic.kr/s/aHsmVqo6J2

Thank you for your visits, favs and nice comments! 🙏

A section of "Spaceship Earth" at Epcot.

This is a photo of patterns in the coastal bedrock at Clam Harbour Beach.

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Sprengelmuseum

[Olympus OM-01]

Pumpkins at a friends farm.

HTM!

for : Saturday Self-Challenge: repetition

thanks for all your visits

The eigth in a series of a dozen or so recent digital patterns, created from scratch in Photoshop.

I built this structure

Patterns made by the frost in the park.

In Explore Jan 16th, 2016 at 311.

Happy Smile on Saturday ( with the theme K)

La Crécerelle d’Amérique est le plus petit faucon

du Québec. Son cri aigu caractéristique trahit sa

présence dans les champs, malgré sa petite taille.

Comme chez la plupart des faucons, on peut

observer sous les yeux des crécerelles des rayures

noires verticales, appelées moustaches.

Le mâle a les ailes bleues ardoisées et le dos brun

rougeâtre tacheté de points noirs. Sa poitrine

rousse porte quelques taches noires et sa queue

rousse n’a qu’une seule bande noire à son

extrémité. La femelle a les ailes et le dos

complètement roux et tachetés de noir. Sa poitrine

porte de fines rayures foncées. Sa queue rousse

porte plusieurs petites bandes noires.

A beach rivulet winds down to the sea...

Fascinating cloud patterns in the skies over Grand Mere Beach on Lake Michigan.

By Lake Holathlikaha, Citrus County, Fl

Patterns in the ice on Lake Butte des Morts, Terrell's Island, Omro, Wisconsin

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Hattah-Kulkyne National Park lies in typical mallee country with extensive low scrub and open native pine woodland. Superbly adapted birds, animals and vegetation thrive in the poor, sandy soils and searing summers.

The freshwater Hattah Lakes is seasonally filled by creeks connected to the Murray, providing food and shelter for waterbirds and fish. These lakes can remain full for up to ten years without flooding, but flooding generally occurs once every two years.

This is a photo of a bejeweled, complex network of reflections on the undulating surface patterns of the wind stirred river.

For the Happy Caturday theme "Patterns".

Tofu's fur may be fluffy but it doesn't have much to offer when it comes to patterns. The only exception is his face with its orange "mask" and the quite clearly visible M on his forehead. Sethi with his tabby fur would have been a more obvious choice for this theme but I had to take him to the vet yesterday for his vaccination and he doesn't talk to me at the moment. :)

Happy Caturday !