Swatches of marine algae on a rocky bed look like abstract art. The featured image for this post is unique because the algal patches that give it the abstract quality live on a roadbed carved into a rocky headland. The bed is exposed only at low tide. Being smooth, flat, and nearly level, it’s a rare surface in the rocky intertidal.
The gallery below gives intertidal sand a chance to show off its abstract side next to its sister, the rocky intertidal.
Carpet of Fucus; semi-pretected site
Zonation
Waves of Velella velella
Cobbles at low tide
Porphyra and barnacles on a vertical wall
Anthopleura exposed
Soft sediment attracts boring clams
Emerita analoga trails on midlittoral sand
These images are all from spring 2016 on a mile-long reach of northern Oregon shore.
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Great for WPC -abstract!
Thanks! I just checked out your post and I just love the top one with art on Tata Safari opposite World Trade Park. You have a great eye.
Oh yes, beaches and shores suit this theme perfectly! Very nice shots for the theme interpretation…
I’m glad you like my selections, thanks for mentioning it. Your seaside shot is striking, I stared at it a while. But you probably won’t be surprised to hear I really like the anemone too.
Cool abstracts! Yaz
Just love these pics Steve, not only as abstracts but also it’s interesting knowing the names of the different formations and plants. And they were all so different.
The shore line offers great examples of where nature and abstract collide on a minute-by-minute basis. Great shots.
Wow, the abstract natural art work you captured is beautiful Steve!
Thanks Terri! I had fun putting together this little collection.