June Photo Challenge - Entries

[iceman]

Hi all.

Place your entries for the June challenge in this thread. Comments go in the comments thread.

Subject: Natural Patterns.

Rules:
1) 1 entry per person
2) (optional) Please put the date the photo was taken with your image

Thanks

[Phil]

Hi i love the pattern in clouds hope you all like it
Phil

[sheeny]

My first entry into the photo challenge!:D Please be gentle...

Taken July 31, 2005 at Callala Bay late afternoon. Image has been resized and converted to .JPG for posting. No other processing. Taken with an Olympus C5060WZ.

Al.

[gaa_ian]

OK ... time to have another go, it has been a while.
I have posted a new shot.
This shot was taken post Cyclone ingrid last year (March 05), spiders made webs in lots of odd spots after the cylone bought them out of hiding !

[jjjnettie]

My Guinea Fowl donated this feather for me to photograph this morning 8/6/06.

[leon]

This image was taken today 8.6.06 at 7am in our strawberry patch, we grow frozen strawberries, still working on the cream ;)

[astrogeek]

The bark of my favorite tree, the Red Iron Bark. Taken earlier this year.

[RB]

Took this photo last night (10-June-06) of patterns in the ice.

:)

[Dennis]

Hello

Went for a walk in Toohey forest today, our local nature strip, looking for some natural patterns and I found this tree bark that looked like an island, hence the title “Bark Island”.

Capture details:
Minolta DiMage 7Hi, 5M pixel, 28-200mm zoom
Focal length 47mm, ISO 200, Aperture F8, Shutter 1/90 second. 12 June 2006 9:40:13 am

Processing details:
Corel PhotoPaint 12, Original 2560x1920 jpg cropped then resampled down to 587x1024 jpg.
Saturation increased by 15%, Mild curves, Saved as jpg 50% compression

Dennis

[33South]

Taken in 'front yard' when the sun was in the right position 1:25pm today, Pentax *istd 18mm.

[asimov]

Taken 30/9/05

Kodak easyshare.

[Astro Girl]

I asked dad to borow his camera so I can enter a photo.
This is a rock with moss out side our house.
I think it is interesting.

Dad put the photo on icein space for me.

:)

[iceman]

Hi all

Here's my entry, taken on Sunday night. I picked up this leaf while jogging, took it home and photographed it :)

Taken in RAW with 350D + Tamron 90mm 1:1 macro lens (thanks Bert!).
Processed in RawShooterPremium, converted to websize in Photoshop.

[Tamtarn]

Unusual colours and pattern on gum tree trunk taken 8/6/06


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Barb

[Sonia]

Here are some raindrops i took on a metal grid...

[Volans]

G'day All,

This is from my Mother's shell collection and is known as a Wentletrap. Please don't ask me what a wentle is nor do I know how one is trapped! :rolleyes:

Image was taken on the 8th of June, 2006.

Peter.

[hector]

Looks like it's set in stone

[h0ughy]

changed my mind, this one was the very first photo i took with my new 350D canon camera today. I love the blue background and the randomness of the leaves lit up by sunlight;)

[xstream]

"Winter Wonder".
Image shot 14th June 2006.

[jackenau]

Certainly an interesting topic. Taken at the local Botanical Gardens June 11 with canon 350 everything auto. And cropped in Photo shop.

One of many, many, many photos


Kenm

[fringe_dweller]

some more rock dwellers - the Trouble with Lichen

Lichen living on weathered granite (interesting stuff lichen :-) are they from space?) taken a couple of years ago with nikon 5700, the shots a couple of years old now, but i really Lich it :P

[danielsun]

This conifer up close looks a little alien like with its snake scale patern features, so i thought i'd throw it in.
Taken today 25/6/06

[Adrian-H]

25th june, 350D, Sigma 18-200mm

[janoskiss]

Viscous fingers growing on a rock face.

[TidaLpHasE]

:) I took this pic on Sunday down the coast.

Patterns in stone.

[middy]

A conifer from the back garden. Taken 24/6/06

[spacezebra]

Hi there

I have no idea what this plant/flower is:shrug:, but man its groovy! Great natural pattern.

Cheers Petra

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[Sharnbrook]

Natural patterns formed by Poinciana leaves in the evening light.Taken with EOS 300D, cropped and resized, but from recollection no other post-processing.
1/50th sec @ f25, 400ASA, date taken April 23rd 06

Regards,

Mike

[The Unbeliever]

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Hi All,

Look what I found in the local botanical garden, yes you guessed it an alien plant just hanging around watching everything we do.

PS Without a telescope.

[Gargoyle_Steve]

This is an image of a small slice of meteorite from my "geology" collection .... it's a slice of metallic meteorite displaying what is known as the Widmanstatten Pattern, after one of the discoverers. This structure is the result of a molten asteroidal core cooling very very slowly over millions of years, allowing the unique interlaced crystalline structure of the two metals to form. Scientists have been unable tpo replicate this pattern in a lab, in fact the ONLY place it is known to occurr is in Iron/Nickel asteroids and meteorites. The flat polished surface has been lightly acid etched to help reveal the pattern.

As soon as I saw the title for this months photo challenge I KNEW what I wanted to photograph as an entry ... and in keeping with the "Ice in Space" them too - trouble was I didn't realise exactly how much of a challenge photographing this would turn out to be. This triangular object is about an inch along the longest edge so you need a close image, and you have to catch the right angle to get the light to reflect just right ... of course you need a lot of light to show it, but a flash would reflect the light straight back at you from the almost mirror like surface.

Eventually I captured this image on my Kodak Z740, cropped it and adjusted contrast and brightness only (to highlight the pattern) using Paint Shop Pro. With the end of the month tomorrow, this is the best image I have been able to capture so far. If I can capture a better one in the next 24 hours I'll swap it over.

[venus]

Thought this pattern looked interesting.... a star cacti with a friend:)