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Close-Up/Macro 44 images Created 21 Jan 2022

Intimate nature details and close-ups, including macro photos.

NOTE: these are reduced resolution images for web display, only — prints will be produced from the full resolution originals.
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  • Curled Mesquite seedpod caught in a thorny shrub, Amargosa River wetlands, Shoshone, California; February 2022.
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  • Delicate salt arch and salt hair, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Light & shadow on salt crust detail, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Stubby salt hair, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Delicate hairs of salt and salt crust detail, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Macro of salt hair made of tiny salt beads at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Delicate salt hair, Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
    Badwater-Salt-22-2031.jpg
  • Close-up of crunchy salt crust at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
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  • Small salt formations at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California; February 2022.
    Badwater-Salt-22-1327.jpg
  • Hoarfrost on Coast Live Oak leaves, textured background, Rancho Bernardo, California; December 2021.
    Hoar-Oak-Leaves-21-0586-FS6.jpg
  • Macro photo of hoarfrost on a Coast Live Oak leaf, Rancho Bernardo, California; December 2021.
    Hoarfrost-Oak-Leaf-21-0526.jpg
  • Fossilized Nautilus shell with other shells clumped, together in sedimentary rock.
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  • Well-preserved Sea Urchin fossil on sedimentary rock
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  • Mud tiles and glittering dust, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California; April 2020.
    Mud-Tiles-Dust-20-4729.jpg
  • Mud breaking up and curling into brittle flakes, Volcanic Hills area, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. March 2020.
    Mud-Flakes-20-4473.jpg
  • Decaying plant material on salt-crusted soil, Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Roswell, New Mexico; March 2019.
    Bitter-Lakes-Bones-19-7522.jpg
  • Roots & Rock, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. January 2019.
    Roots-Rock-19-6517.jpg
  • Raindrops on Agave, Rancho Bernardo, California. January 2019.
    Agave-Rain-Macro-19-5917.jpg
  • Red clinker crumbs and dust on cracked mud, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico; September 2018.
    Bisti-Clinker-Dust-18-4629.jpg
  • Colorful rock crumbs and pieces, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico; September 2018.
    Bisti-Colorful-Crumbles-18-4574.jpg
  • Clinker shards and other small colorful debris on cracked mud, Bisti Badlands, New Mexico; September 2018.
    Bisti-Shards-18-4572.jpg
  • Quartz vein in sandstone, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; May 2017.
    Quartz-Vein-i17-0660.jpg
  • Vibrant green surfgrass at low tide, Hospital Point, La Jolla, California; January 2017.
    Surfgrass-Closeup-17-3985.jpg
  • Close-up of raindrops accumulated on an Agave leaf; San Diego, California. January 2017.
    Raindrops-Agave-17-0230.jpg
  • Cracked mud pattern and mineral dust, Clark Dry Lake, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California. January 2017.
    Cracked-Mud-17-3834.jpg
  • Tiles and flakes of cracked mud, Clark Dry Lake, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; January 2017.
    Cracked-Mud-17-3832.jpg
  • Mud hill detail in the Carrizo Badlands at Arroyo Tapiado, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; November 2013.
    Arroyo-Tapiado-Mud-13-9254.jpg
  • Wolf lichen and resin on a Jeffrey Pine, Laguna Mountains, California; June 2013.
    Lichen-Resin-Pine-6777.jpg
  • Gypsum crystal layer in a mud hill, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2013.
    Elephant-Knees-3918.jpg
  • Detail of bleached dead tree, Lake Hodges, California; November 2012.
    Bleached-Tree-Detail-12-1843.jpg
  • Macro photo of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort, a native to Europe used as an ornamental plant) anthers; San Diego, California; June 2012.
    St-Johns-Wort-Macro-12-9042.jpg
  • Deep cracks in layers of drying mud, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California. December 2011.
    Deep-Mud-Cracks-11-3118.jpg
  • The sintered bark of a burned tree reflects sky and surrounding landscape colors. Laguna Mountains, California; February 2011.
    Laguna-Mts-Burnt-Tree-0891.jpg
  • Stigma and anthers in the inflorescence of a backlit yellow Daylight-Lily, Rancho Bernardo, California; January 2011.
    Yellow-Daylight-Lily-Macro-11-0304.jpg
  • Close-up of kelp washed ashore, Solana Beach, California; January 2011.
    Kelp-Close-Up-11-0244.jpg
  • Unusual patterning on tree park, Hohenwart, Bavaria, Germany; August 2010.
    Bark-Pattern-10-0231.jpg
  • Golden pebble in shallow water at the bank of the Salzach River, Burghausen, Germany; July 2010.
    Golden-Pebble-10-0171.jpg
  • Raindrops of Leaf, Naturschutzgebiet Untere Alz, Hohenwart, Germany. June 2010.
    Untere-Alz-10-4218.jpg
  • Dewdrop moon on blade of grass, dandelion sun rising; Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. May 2010.
    Dewdrop-Constellation-10-1552.jpg
  • Macro photo of dewdrops on a leaf; Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. May 2010.
    Dewdrops-Leaf-Macro-10-1362.jpg
  • Big dewdrop on tulip petal, Burghausen, Germany; May 2010.
    Dewdrop-Tulip-10-1340.jpg
  • Young beech leaf with raindrops in the forest near Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. May 2010.
    Leaf-with-raindrop-10-1303.jpg
  • Raindrops magnify the structure of a leaf; Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. May 2010.
    Dewdrop-Lens-10-1298.jpg
  • "Ice on Ice", Falkensee, Inzell, Bavaria; February 2008.
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