 WATER |
 ROCK |
 DESERT |
 SKY |
 TREES |
 PLANTS |
 ANIMALS |
 MAN-MADE |
 PATTERNS |
 CLOSE-UP |
it is rare that i photograph man-made things when i'm traveling around looking for beautiful things in nature, but artistic construction like this will make it into the photo collection.
Palace of Fine Arts
tall Saguaro cactus towering over others in southern Arizona
Cactus Land
occasionally when an Eastern Redbud tree (which has pinkinsh-purple blooms instead of the more typical red blooms) gets rather old, clusters of blooms squeeze out from every part of each branch, limb, and trunk. it's a great find if you happen to find one during the right moment of spring (then it's just a matter of getting the camera equipment up in the tree).
Eastern Redbud 2
mysterious mounds of rock peaking through the surface of a mineral water pond in JiuZhaiGou
Pond Mounds
this is an extreme closeup shot of a silicon wafer that has shattered. like most hard & brittle materials, the broken fragments have scalloped patterns along the shattered edges (like broken glass). this particular fragment's pattern resembled a lightning storm and shows off an area of 0.0055 x 0.0037 inches (averaging out to the thickness of a sheet of paper).
Chrome Lightning
scenic coastline of Maui
Coastline
massive thumb-shaped rock slowly shifting from erosion
Sliding Rock
edge of a corn crop in Indiana
Corn Field
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