Nature's Collection

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these large birds appear to have infinite patience as they stand motionless for hours waiting for their meal to swim by.

Blue Heron

Yucca tree (Yucca brevifolia) in Mojave desert.

Yucca Tree

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

foliage on the tropical island of HaiNan

Tropical Essence 3

Indiana wetlands

Pink Lily

a walk in the woods during early autumn in Indiana

Woods

looking directly at an enormous wall of ice as it crumbles into the sea. the ice is under intense pressure from the weight of the ice above and from the relentless pushing of new ice forming in distant mountains. this pressure causes the ice to be abnormally dense, and gives it an obvious teal colour. very loud cracks and pops can be heard as it continues being shoved downhill.

Glacier Texture

vanda orchids growing in Hawaii rain-forest

Vanda Three

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