After the storm that swept our beach clean during the week, water continued to flow through the lagoon opening into the sea. I was captivated by the fascinating patterns and lines created by the continual movement of water over sand and around rocks, by the tiny fish swimming upstream towards the safety of the lagoon, by the little bits of debris still being washed out of the usually closed system. Click on any image to see them better, the patterns are wonderful!
Mullimburra ICOLL open
sunlight lattice
tiny fish
intersecting lines
cone diamonds
Thank you to Weekly Photo Challenge for From Lines to Patterns, and to Ailsa for Travel Theme: Through
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I love the way the sun is sparkling in them too….what sort of camera do you use Christine?
yes, I love those little starry bursts too … it is a superzoom, Canon SX40 … not expensive but very versatile and great for zooming in on birds, but still OK for macros 🙂
Thanks 🙂
I’m looking for something more than my iPhone (!!) for my trip to Ireland next year.
look at the new 4:3 system cameras … like Olympus or Panasonic or Sony … they are small, light but have a big sensor for better quality images … I want one for travel too … greedy me!
Thanks so much for the tips 🙂
Love this!!
thank you Cindy … from the awesome beauty of the Canadian lakes you are sharing to the water patterns in our humble ICOLL … nature is always showing us more!
Great images! Neat patterns!
Just perfect, Christine! Isn’t it exciting to see nature flexing its muscles and re-shaping itself like that? I’m so looking forward to becoming intimately acquainted with my new patch of paradise and watching its changing moods – but in the meantime, I’m on my way back through your posts to catch up with your place … Yes, I’m connected to the world again!
hurray! I was thinking only yesterday while walking on the beach that I missed you! So glad to hear you are connected … and we will soon be enjoying your lovely new paradise on-line 😀
Great pictures of natural line and pattern, Christine!
thanks Cathy … I wonder where you are now? Home yet?
Yes, Christine, I’m back in the USA now and have been since the end of July. You can find me here now: http://www.catbirdinamerica.wordpress.com
thanks Cathy … I missed that while we were away in the Kimberley for the whole month of June!
Yes, I know about missing things, Christine. I’m continually in that boat now as my job eats up almost every minute of my days, even on weekends!
that sounds really busy!!!
Yes, too much so! At least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. When the semester ends, I’ll have over a month off!
oh I am relieved to hear that!
Me too! And I hope to go to California right after Christmas! 🙂
What exquisite patterns. I think you probably noted the designs in the sand before you new the title of the challenge. The color of the sand is really pretty, too. It reminds me of frothy milk chocolate in those little pools! 🙂
yes Debra, I took the photos on Thursday …. I planned to post them … then the challenge was just perfect! So glad you like them!
love these kind of patterns….. beach art at its best. thanks for sharing.
glad you like it Chris … it is fascinating!
The beach is alive, sparkling and rippling in the sunshine.
yes! Eddy is here, we are just off to the beach now 🙂
Lovely selection of photos for this challenge! Love the patterns water and sand form at the beach.
Beautiful captures of patterns and lines created by the water over sand! Love it.
sparkling life! thanks Amy 🙂
Just look at those shimmering water spirits 🙂
oooh, now you have given me goosebumps! they are so vividly alive 🙂
Beautiful, Christine. I love this. 🙂
so happy to share this beauty with you Robin 🙂
Your photographic interests are so close to mine. My obsession with beach patterns followed my obsession with bark and rock faces and preceded my obsession with rock pools, shells and beach pebbles. The patterns on your beach are different to those on mine, although they are geographically close. I like your titles, especially “cone diamonds” and I like the way you combine your log and photothemes. I look forward to sharing more of what your eye sees.
If you’re interested you can see a few of my beach patterns on my home-blog, soon to be resumed. I am in fact home and about to reacquaint myself with my beach.
http://morselsandscraps.wordpress.com//?s=Intertidal+sand
http://morselsandscraps.wordpress.com//?s=My+tiny+coral+island
Love these…summer reminders too.
and we are just coming into summer …. every day the mornings are brighter …. not counting cloud!
Lucky you!
I love your lagoon, Christine. I’ve often tried to capture those sort of patterns on the beach but I never can, so well done to you 🙂
I was there at the right time Jo … just lucky! I took more yesterday, they are fascinating 🙂
Christine, I really like this combo. The close ups remind me of reptile skins. Margie
yes you are right, similar patterns, nature’s way!
The sea is an ever-changing work of art. Nice take on the theme, Christine.
Have you seen this?
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/21/whats-a-pufferfish-explaining-animal-behind-mystery-circles/
Perhaps giant break-dancing frogs are the creators of crop-circles… the possibilities are endless. 🙂