All the embroidery, including her clotes and head cover, and items in the background is made by this woman.

This closeup provides a nice view of their black and white checkerboard feather pattern.

Butterflies have some of the most beautiful natural patterns. This swallowtail is no exception.

This little tree frog's pattern helps it camouflage himself.

Architectural Structure

There are many patterns in this shot. The fences, the lines of the perfectly spaced trees and the shadows, can you see any more patterns here?

The Patterns in the Palm are Plain! How is that for alliteration? As these lovely palms grow they produce patterns in their trunks and leaves.

Successive lava glows here have resulted in layers of basalt being stacked on top of each other in many different orientations.

Facts About Iceland - Climate: The annual rainfall on the south coast is about 3000 mm, whereas in the highlands north of Vatnajokull it drops to 400 mm or less.

i made this by using a gradient tool. then i used another few tools to give it a mushroomy effect.

The Western History Department, Denver Public Library ... by Marv (BerryMan)

The Sound-Barrier on Interstate 25 South-eastern Denver ... by Marv (BerryMan)

The "Arch" at Denver's "Coors Field", home of the MLB "Colorado Rockies". See my WS "Coors Field Exterior" album for additional photos celebrating the "Evolution of the Ball" ... by Marv (BerryMan)

Once a tree, now a fence picket. Man and the elements carve ever changing patterns in natural things, until they are returned to the soil from whence they came.

Not a sock, not a lampshade, not braids in my hair. :)

I have no idea of the name for this growth I found in the woods, but I thought it was pretty cool..

These flower-like patterns were across a wide patch of ice covering the dam in our yard.

This is me and Tyson, my youngest Choc. Lab. out by the icy lake last week. This is "our" pattern for best friends. Hope u like us.

When we trim the bayonets in our yard it leaves a pattern on the trunk which gives it texture.

I love the different blues and the pattern they createon this geode that I have had for years.

I thought that the bark along with the moss made a great combination of patterns.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Paris, France

Photoplo 2008

Forteresse di Monteriggioni, Toscana, Italy. Photoplo 2006

Jardin des Sources, Ste-Therese, Quebec, Canada. Photoplo 2009

Overhead view of the hot air balloon "Stars and Stripes" against a background formed by an Amish hayfield.

The seeds in the strawberry create many patterns.

So many patterns in the Swamp. The clouds, the trees,the reeds and the refelections in the water.

The intricate weaving of the grass to make the bird's nest is a pattern hard to duplicate. It sits on an interesting pattern of branches.

Farmland somewhere over central California.

Grand Canyon

Antilope Canyon , Arizona, USA

This was taken in the butterfly garden at the knoxville zoo

You can see the pattern of the netting used to house the butterflys on the leaves.

Nearly every cloud in the sky had these unusual tails hanging from them in this beautifully blue sky.

Photo taken from inside garage with screen on the outside. The background is literally a "cross screen" pattern. Nature paints a new pattern after every frost; never the same.

at Ohio State University

Nature's natural patterns

Water and wind make this swirling pattern in the rocks over time

Patterns in light....

Looking through a shop window at christmas in Old Town.

Two layers of different colours divided evenly by the river horizon. This is The St. Croix River at Bayside N.B. Boats owned by campers at Island View Campground.

Pheasant. Best view full size for effect

Playa nudista situada en el norte de la isla en el parque natural de Ses Salines. Nude beach located in the north of the island in the nature reserve of Ses Salines.

I love the triple pattern in the photo: the pattern of the dead branches, the pattern of the light reflecting in the waves, and the pattern of the earth showing through the shallow water on the left.

This photo was shot using a B&W film, which I believe gave it its greenish tint...

Mesquite bug lodged in a sagauro's spines

A birds (mainly vultures) observatory high in the Pyrenees in Andorra.

Flowerpots

Pleat

The strange stones in County Antrim, Ireland

The color patterns that distinguish the BlueJay

Part of the patterns of flowers at Longwood Gardens, PA

My pocketknife was for scale.

in the historic section of Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany

These are not roots, but the remnants of veins of a decimated desert plant

The lines and curves of this picket fence make a very attractive entrance to the home.

Details of a water fountain.

The patterns on the leaves are like little sun kisses.

Decorative metal cutouts all stacked together look like the composite should be a piece of sculpture.

At sunrise

A simple combination of ice and a chain link fence make for an interesting winter pattern.

I enjoy the symmetry of this great looking plant.

soon the tiny Dill blossoms that remind me of a firework display will go to seed.

This is the smoke from an incense stick

Fresh catch off the boat, Morro Bay, CA

No it's not snow, but rather a close-up shot of an unusual cloud-formation

A string of 6 train engines make their way up the track. You can see the engineer in the window of the last one.

A beautiful stained glass window.

A wooden pattern of both fence and trees.

WHY these amazing ice formations in this little pond??? Answer on picture: http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2931628400065251958BuDJhs

Onyx from California

Devonian Ammonoid from Morocco

Precise white patterns overlay a random black pattern. See the pattern in the black surface at full size.

Air Force flies over to start the New Years Rose Parade in Pasadena California. I captured this image with old Kodak camera, I was lucky with the high speed of those planes.

Looking at a closeup photo of a purple coneflower, one can see the spiral shapes radiating from the center.

The colorful feathers of a parrot make for some very interesting patterns.

One of the ways of identifying spiders is by the color patterns. This little jumper is quite distinctive.

Looking down at the rocks off the shore of Lake Huron.

Butterfly

Iguana, taken in the Duisburg Zoo, Germany.

Giraffe with Baby

I took this photo while driving. I found the constellation of vapor so good.

This photo shows the fields in the Sahara in Morocco

Dream of all snowboarders, deep snow drive

The fruit of a pineapple are arranged in two interlocking spirals, eight spirals in one direction, thirteen in the other; each being a Fibonacci number.

Nothing like the chrome patterns on an old car.

Tails it is... This 1891 Silver Dollar is my favorite of all the the U.S. minted coins. Minted from 1878 to 1921 and designed by George Morgan, this Silver Dollar is nicknamed the Morgan Silver dollar.

Our baby calf has a cool pattern on his face.

This picture was taken from top of an old railroad bridge. The patterns of the bridge are also very visible in its shadow.

This grasshopper had one bad leg, so he just went round and round in the sand to make an interesting pattern. His body also has its own pattern.

Wellknown Turkish dessert.

Most car enthusiasts recognize this as a Buick from the classic Porthole Pattern. This is an early 50's model.

Many of the older cars could be recognized if you just knew your chrome patterns. Sometimes it determined the year of the make.

Taken at the Butterfly House in Chesterfield, Missouri. 11010006

The black and white pattern indicates which light house it is. The caretaker lived in the building to the right

Finland

I took this shot at the Holiday Flower and Train Show at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. P1100035

Designed by the architects Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen

The futuristic Selfridges store is situated in Birmingham city centre, England. Inspired, appropriately enough, by a Paco Rabanne dress, the store is covered by 15,000 reflective aluminium discs.

Detail of Irish Harp on monument gate.

Taken at the St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Missouri. I liked the contrasting patterns in this shot. The Cheetah blends in so well with its surroundings that it looks like it's in the wild! P1220286

Placed on a blue patterned sofa.

Stokes aster, May 19.

Clematis macro, April 22.

Patterns created by basaltic rock formations at Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. According to the legend these rocks (about 37.000) were thrown by the Giant Finn Mc Cool, who wanted to build a street and to reach more quickly and easier his lover in Scotland. Giant's Causeway is the only UNESCO site in Northern Ireland.

Beautiful natural patterns on yellow tulips; photo taken in my garden in March 2007

Patterns in nature.

Patterns in nature.Kaleidoscope effect.

Patterns in architecture.

A nice close up of a giraffe in the zoo at Wroclaw, Poland. For me this is one of the most beautiful patterns created by Mother Nature!!! And you? What do you think?

Patterns on the tidal flats as the tide recedes.

View full size to see all the details.

View full size to see all the details.

A closer look

I LOVE THE CALCULATED PATTERN IN THIS ROSE KALEIDOSCOPE.

THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO ALL MY FRIENDS AT WEBSHOTS WHO MAKE INTERESTING PATTERNS ON MY LIFE. I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE PLEASURE OF BEING YOUR FRIEND AND FOR MAKING LIFE LIKE A BOWL OF STEW. WELL MIXED AND SERVED HOT. THERESA

I took this shot at a car show on a very busy downtown street. With Photoshop, I eliminated the store fronts, people, trees, etc, and darkened the background (car17ab).

This mill stone was used to grind corn,at the old St.Lawrence Starch company.

Seagulls, after a dog came along.

Store front in Monterey, Calif ...Can you find the anti-social pig???

Bushes in fall bloom

Ripples on the water near Banfield BC

Reeds

we were burning wood and this spiderweb got covered with black soot.

St. Louis Botanical Garden

These are roof shingles, but I thought they looked way cool. Hope you like it.

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The 18 km-long Rize Valley is the south-western branch of Jiuzhaigou. It contains the largest variety of sites and is typically visited first. (source: Wikipedia)

A familiar pattern in the South

This cabbage is called "Savoy cabbage". It is excellent sauteed, or raw in salads and coleslaw. I took the photo at "Pete's Greens" stand, Montpelier's Farmers Market, Vermont. I liked how the cabbages were arranged and even a cabbage has great patterns. (0909-330k)

Nature makes the best patterns.(ps2547-336k)

The Parkins Reef area was initially mined by several companies, which consolidated into a single company, the Parkins Reef Quartz Mining Association. The Association was bought out in 1865 and renamed the North British and Quartz Mining and Crushing Company. The main shaft of the mine descended to 503 metres, and yielded 203,307 ounces of gold; the site total 242 000 ounces.

La Baie, Quebec, Canada

Algarve

Algarve

Wine stocks at autumn time

3 people in the morning fog at the NW Art & Air Fest

This was made almost entirely in a darkroom, long before we had digital. This has won over 5 best of shows at art shows. I have also used red food dye to change it to a color photo.

Black & White with color

Rossio

Waterdrops

Challenge patterns

Paterns on a turtle.

Patern of fields.

Yet another run in with security types. Only this time think has more to do with irrate customers, rather then a terrorist threat. Album: Charlotte for effect

Patterns are different for individual balloons as they identify the specific balloon. Album: Adirondack Balloon Festival 2007

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Here is a great nature pattern.

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This shot was taken in the night under an orange lighting form my chandelier in the living room.

Architectural detail, Charlotte NC Album: Charlotte for effect

This shot was taken early in the morning of the same blinds.

FOR 01-20-09

Waves in water, waves in snow, I wonder how the wind will blow - tomorrow.

MY attempt at art - I liked the texture and contrast in subject.

Dandelion macro taken at one of Don Paulson's workshops in Seabeck WA.

FOR 01-20-09

Basket full of fish on the floating market at Tonale Sap Lake, Cambodia

What is it???? It's the very center of a Texas Dandelion

FOR 01-20-09

Leaf

Piece of wood found in river's water. Seems as an animal's head.

Flower of spathyphilum

a spiders web and rain drops

�2008 S Allmon

While camping at Liliy Lake in the Uinta Mountains, Utah

Forks City Park, Washington

Taken through camo netting at Al Udied AB, Qatar

at the edge of Lake Ontario shore

Willard Memorial Chapel The interior of the Chapel was designed and handcrafted entirely by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company of New York City. It is the only complete and unaltered totally Tiffany designed religious interior known to exist in the world.

Willard Memorial Chapel The interior of the Chapel was designed and handcrafted entirely by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company of New York City. It is the only complete and unaltered totally Tiffany designed religious interior known to exist in the world.

one of the walkways in the Chinese Garden...moss is extra

The cones are small and woody with spirally arranged scales. They are from my Mugo pines, also known as mountain pines (pinus mugo). (p0023-393k)

There was heavy fog today and below freezing temperatures that resulted in beautiful ice crystals on this fence that emphasize the repetitive rectangular pattern.

I love the graphic presentation and the complimentary colors of these beach umbrellas. This was photographed at the end of summer last year when the mornings were cool enough that noone was on the beach yet.

What more can you say? The use of a bold pattern on the shutters of this window makes an interesting architectural statement.

Taking a pattern and distorting it in highly reflective waters....

snow in B&W

snow in b&w

YES! This is real folks! It's a close up of the next picture! COOL, eh?!

Wheel

Patterns in lights. The Encore Vega$.

Chihuly flower patterns up high at The Bellagio. Nevada

Ceiling in the Paris Hotel. La$ Vega$ Nevada.

Everything moves - exposition Jean Tinguely

In our region (Pau, Pyrenees Atlantiques), most old walls had been built with pebbles from the Gave de Pau River

Patterns on patterns- lace curtain, mini blinds, panes of the window, shadows and a winter sky

this covers a 3 gallon glass jug

Rusty Mining Equipment, macro

Mt. Si, WA

This gives the impression that they are closer than they actually are, each launch pad is about 100 foot wide.

Wisteria Archway at Larnach Castle near Dunedin, New Zealand

I liked how the shadow from the lattice fell across the stack of pots near Kasbah Amerdihl in Morocco.

A view in the atrium at the Atlanta Hyatt. More interesting when viewed full screen.

Really pleased with the performance of this lense.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloon Fiesta

First mentioned in records 1162. The orderliness of the stones is notably.

Spectacular black & white shading in this mum pattern!

Arlington Mansion and 200 acres of ground immediately surrounding it were designated officially as a military cemetery June 15, 1864, by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington Cemetery. Veterans from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900.

Ice patterns created by nature besides a waterfall

Corn ANd Wheat planted

When it was said that I would take pictures of dirt...lol

Circles in a Rectangle World

Motorcycle helmet

Best viewed full size to see the beautiful meandering thread patterns.

Seen in Berlin

From my Chicago album

Seen in Chicago, 2008

I'm so sorry I was not able to avoid neon lights :( But I loved this prospective!

Look at this at full size, the spiral pattern is really interesting.

Best viewed full size. It looks like a fireworks show!

You can walk inside a giant geode.These are naturally formed crystals inside a cave.

I took this photo 1-15-09 after a squirrel got done eating the corn.

This is a plaid pattern on fabric. Photo taken 1-15-09.

Photo taken 1-15-09.

One building reflected by another in downtown Seattle WA.

yeah i took this!!

The interesting shapes of the individual scales of the pinecone are arranged in a circular pattern with various shades of brown in each scale making a pleasing whole. Other pinecones in the basket repeat the pattern in complimentary positions.

Repeated triangles and squares make up most of the blocks with only a few curved lines giving interest to the whole. Each block has repeated shapes making a pattern within the block. The repeated colors tie the blocks together in a pleasing whole. The sashing echoes the primary colors. Overall the feeling is one of playfulness and joy. The patterns here are in the shapes and the colors.

A pattern of Snow

The pattern is found in the repeated circles, the ends of the pipe which are sorted and arranged by size. Where the pipes touch each other the shadows give the appearance of triangles, making stars of the circles. One set of pipes seems to have a flanged end on every other pipe giving a new dimension to that section.

Kihei Canoe Club hosts this regatta.

Hungarian girls started their embroidery at age 4, under strict supervision of the elders.

I fell in love wiht this gazeebo, it is from parking lot the meeting place...I suspect a sky cat above;)

had to pull out...confusing drivers waiting politely what I am up to..and took the full size window of Post Office..love this reflection:)

Strawberries galore!

Thunder over Louisville 2007

2nd Street Bridge lights up in rainbow of colors

The reflection of the city taken from a corporation through a hotel room.

A building covered in these glazed tiles can be found on the corner of Calle Princesa and via Laietana.

It tasted Good Too!

The prefabricated panels of Nakasuk Elementary School present a interesting visual pattern. Even in this photo... a "raven" is present.

"A UFO swatter", perhaps? Or maybe a radar reflector on the coast line, you tell me what it looks like to you. Yes... that is another "raven".

The mobile version of a "Coat of Many Colours".

Looking down into a small pool on a walk on the Western Isle of South Uist, Scotland last year. Polarising filter used to eliminate water reflections.Best viewed large.

Mexican classroom roof

"Spiderchrysanthemum".

I chose this photo taken at the Fort Worth Water Gardens because of the patterns of the trees, the patterns of the tree shadows, and the reflections of both being seen in the pond in the forefront.

Giraffes, zebras, and tigers are among my favorite patterned-skinned animals. I chose this photo do to the close grouping of the animals, showing similar but distinctive patterns, as well as the patterns of the rocks and the patterns of the palm fronds.

Immediately upon seeing the subject of this week's challenge, I thought of this photo, whose subject was the mesmerizing concentric ring pattern on the water's surface.

Had been "forgotten" on the field, now these kernels give food for birds and mice

Snow in b&w

First quilt that I ever made!

Blended so well onto the fence that I almost didn't see it!

oil-slick after rain in gravel carpark!

Built in 1890, now encased in a 55 story steel and glass building within a shopping complex.

I was told they have these spots on the backs of the ear, so that they look like eyes to others

He danced for me for about half an hour, then I went to do something else, he was still dancin'

This is patterns everywhere you look.

Pic of an ornamental grape vine taken in a shady corner resulting in a strange array of color patterns

The ceiling of the famous Circular Red Barn on Route 66 in Oklahoma has a beautiful and distinct pattern.

The exact pattern of this butterfly truly shows the beauty, mystery, and power of nature.

This VLA Antenna has a man-made pattern that forms the structure.

Find your office

Bugs!

Light is fascinating

the silver oaks stand in regular pattern in the middle of green feilds of Tea....

Is there a pattern....??? life..death...

i dont see any patterns here ...do you??? yeah you do..

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water patterns have always fascinated me. This is a deepend version of an image I took last year.

the clouds reflected in this office building in downtown Vancouver BC Canada looked very interesting. I didn't realize how well they show in the glass until I processed this image. Two patterns for the price of one!

An updated version of a spider web image I captured a while back at Buntzen Lake, BC Canada.

This is such a magnificent animal!

prague, the castle (Hradcany)

lisbon, padrao dos discobrimentos

moscow, Saint Basil's Cathedral in the Red Square

Looking closer at the center of a Sunflower.

A colorful church in Nashille, TN.

stained glass patterns at the ryman auditorium in Nashville.

Cross walks in downtown Nashville.

Replica of Columbus's ship

This is a stained glass ceiling that covers the length of the Hall. It was wonderful to see the changes in the colors as the day progressed. :)

Patterns on the ceiling.

Reflections from the Ceiling

A breath before the Polar Plunge into icy Lake Sloper in Southington, CT.

Forever embodied in cement.

The plants are interesting and abundant along the edge of the pond.

Butterfly

Dahlia

Blue Jay in the Ash tree in my backyard.

Portland OR buildings

I'm not really sure if this is an orchid or a lily..

organ at the church in Weissenkirchen

shadows of gothic arches in Vienna, Austria's minorettenkirche

a view of the Hass Haus in Vienna, Austria

Tana river,Finnmark,Northern Norway

Sunshine outside the window

This close up is a leaf of the Porcupine Tomato plant

Funny how they all face the same way. Pattern?? I think so!

This was taken on a road trip to Spokane.

Already used this one for the previous creative challenge, but then I noticed that it is a pattern of leaves on a pattern of stones.