"Dahlia"

Tim Kneafsey

"Falling Leaf"

I liked the pattern on a leaf and the pattern of raindrops on my car.

Haris Mahic

"Message from the Earth"

This a small (~7cm wide) slab of polished "graphic granite", It's an inter growth of the minerals quartz (dark grey) and feldspar (white). The pattern of quartz crystals looks a bit like cuneiform writing, hence the geologic name "graphic" granite. I shot this with my macro lens with glancing morning sunlight (just this morning, in fact).

John Christensen

"Landslide support wall by building 86"

Haris Mahic

"Wine Bottles"

Winery in Republic of Georgia

Thomas Horn

"Weathered"

This is a well weathered plank of wood, part of a fire hose storage box up on Mt Tamalpais near the Radar Dome. The original red paint, after many years up there, has weathered to bring out the grain pattern of the wood beneath.

John Christensen

"Cactus "

Tim Kneafsey

"Riding the Waves"

The plaza in Cascais, Portugal can make you seasick!

Randy Roig

"Phil's Right Hand"

The right hand of Phil Lesh (bassist for the Grateful Dead) as he plays a song. He always wears a wristband with the name "Cody" in remembrance

of the organ donor whose liver Phil received. He also gives a talk during each show known as the "donor rap" to encourage organ donation.

Stephen Czarnecki

"Fence Rose"

Thomas Horn

"Pine Trees After Fire"

Dixie fire, hwy 89.

Haris Mahic

"Random Rhythm of the Fire"

Dixie fire in CA 2021.

Haris Mahic

"Saharan Musicians in Morrocco"

While on a trip to Morocco, we were visited by a set of traveling musicians based out of Erfoud. The hand cymbals (Qraqeb) can be amazingly expressive (and, speaking from experience, are difficult to play!)

Randy Roig

"Mushroom Dance"

Mushrooms on a tree stump found in the grassy area behind the Guest House. Photo was taken in December 2019 using the small point-and-shoot camera I carried in my work backpack so I wouldn't miss capturing the cool things I found while working on the hill. How I miss being on the hill!

Karen Lingua

"Juggler's Rhythm"

A street artist in Rome creates a rhythm from the rising and falling of the sound of his torches coming closer & going further while the heads of the walkers behind him create beams that connect the rhythmic groupings of their footsteps.

Doug Lockhart

"Street Musician in Rabat, Morocco"

In the area of Casablanca and Rabat, there is a tradition of music with a three-stringed instrument called a Sintir. This musician attracted a crowd, with many children dancing to the rhythms.

Randy Roig

"Up, Up, and Away"

Thomas Horn

"Berber Rhythms"

In the area of Casablanca and Rabat, there is a tradition of music with a three-stringed instrument called a Sintir. This musician attracted a crowd, with many children dancing to the rhythms.

Doug Lockhart

"Time to go!"

A silhouetted conductor waves to the driver of Puffing Billy, a steam train that runs on its original route on the the outskirts of Melbourne in Australia near where I used to live.

Chris Samuel

Dandelion Seed

I spotted this pile of fresh asphalt over by the Z lot, and thought it might make an interesting photo. But it was more difficult than I anticipated, but the dandelion seed saved the day.

John Christensen

Moon

Maxim Koriabine

Creative Mess at ALS

At ALS we don't have a mess, we have discoveries laying around.

Haris Mahic

Hope for Brighter Days

Location: Carmel beach

Zinab Jadidi

MIRA/SF aka Twisty Tower

MIRA\SF aka "Twisty Tower" is an unusual residential building in downtown SF. Together the two building reach for the sky

Thomas Horn

Wind on Sand

I shot this last week on the Oregon coast. It was quite windy that day, and so there were these nice wind-blown ripples on the sand (which was also getting in my eyes).

John Christensen

Dahlia

Tim Kneafsey

Resilient Pine

An old Jeffrey Pine in the Lakes Basin of the Sierra that has managed to send a root system into the rocks and thrive over many years.

Randy Roig

Tetons from Driggs, ID

A view of the Tetons from Driggs, ID.

Sony RX-10 IV

Randy Roig

Smoking Coals

The smoke coming from the charcoal briquettes seemed like it would make for a nice black and white shot. If nothing else taking some pictures helped pass the time waiting for them to be ready to cook on.

Stephen Czarnecki

Fishing Run

A bald eagle catches a nice catfish for dinner.

Stephen Czarnecki

Splash!

I shot this at the Exploratorium with the help of the exhibit's strobe light, not to mention my daughter's mental powers.

John Christensen

Untitled

Maxim Koriabine

Childhood

El Dorado beach, South Lake Tahoe.

Zinab Jadidi

Shadow Double Helix

Nikon D40

55mm (82mm 35mm eq); 1/320; f/22; ISO 400

I have worked with DNA, the genetic material of life, for a long time. I saw this helical staircase casting a shadow looking like a DNA double helix

Thomas Horn

Color Shadows

A street fair in Barcelona, Spain (pre-COVID). The temporary art hanging over the street cast colorful shadows through the plastic film stretched over metal geometric frames. My daughter is in the middle basking in the glow.

John Christensen

Bird Leaving Birdhouse

A bird taking flight from its house casts a nice shadow. This is probably the best combination of bird and shadow I got during the course of several days trying.

Stephen Czarnecki

3D to 2D

A shopping cart casts it shadow on the sidewalk, transforming itself from 3 dimensions to 2.

John Christensen

The door to . . . ?

John Christensen

Why?

I shot this somewhere in the East Bay- it's up to you to figure out where (and the why).

John Christensen

A chair in the woods

Tina Declerck

Misty Woods

A little fog adds an air of mystery to this wooded area.

Stephen Czarnecki

Circles in the Earth

Tim Kneafsey

Fuzzy

Tim Kneafsey

Shimmer

Take with iPhone7

Monique Fix

Abstract Rhythm

John Christensen

Water on Feather

Macro shot of a water drop on a blue jay feather.

Stephen Czarnecki

Brittle star on a Sponge

Took this while diving in Fiji.

Tina Declerck

Dewdrop jewelry

Drops of dew catch the sunlight on a brisk autumn afternoon in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon. No postprocessing, filters, or editing were applied to this image; the stars result from using a small aperture.

Joshua Ladau

Iris

Tim Kneafsey

Neon writing on the wall

A neon finger scrawls multicoloured graffiti across a late night canvas.

Taken in 2005 on a night road back from the goldmining era ghost town of Aberfeldy in Gippsland (permanent population: 1).

Chris Samuel,

Palm tree leaf

Haris Mahic

Outflow

Patterns in the sand in a stream flowing on the beach in La Jolla, California. Taken with an iPhone.

Michael Wehner

Dimple

With a little chiaroscuro I was able to highlight the texture of a beautiful pear and a bounce of light from the shiny skin. I then used some tonal filtering in Photoshop to bring out the greens.

I entered this photo into a contest with the theme of monochromatic but was disqualified for the small bit of brown in the stem and the flaw in the fruit's skin, both of which I think only make the photo more interesting.

Karen Lingua

Sierra Spring

This photo was taken on a spring day near peak snowmelt in a wilderness canyon near Yosemite. One of my favorite places, every spring this canyon comes to life with the sound of singing birds, frogs, and waterfalls. Amidst the rush of life, flooded aspen groves, like the one pictured here, make for peaceful reflections.

Joshua Landau

Frog Under Lily Pad

A frog waiting patiently under a water lily. Or at least it was. We only noticed it when we were right next to it and it got spooked before we even got around to trying to maneuver the canoe to get a better angle.

Stephen Czarnecki

Faroe Grass Roofs

In the Faroe Islands it rains an average of 300 days a year. We lucked out during our trip. Turf roofs provide good protection from the rain as well as thermal insulation. This is the village of Saksun, population 8. Or maybe 14, depending on the source. The church is circa 1850 while the stone buildings are from the 17th century, or so I'm told. I think there are some nice compositional aspects to the picture with the curved dirt road leading the eye to the church and then past that back to what used to be a natural harbor before it was filled with sand by a storm.

Stephen Czarnecki

Lotusland

Lotusland, named as one of the top ten gardens in the world, is a botanical garden in Montecito, Santa Barbara. The 57-acre garden is the host to Japanese, blue, fern, bromeliads, cactus, butterfly, fern, water, tropical--among other--gardens.

A must-see place.

Yingying Kooyman

Malachite

These are malachite crystals- the specimen is about 1.5" wide. Malachite is a copper carbonate, and usually forms very fine grained sprays of crystals (see next photo). I shot this in sunlight against a black sheet of paper with a macro lens.

John Christensen

Succulant flower in spring

This succulant in our garden has especially beautiful flowers in the spring. This photo was taken with my iphone but I love that it still caught the detail of the hairs on the leaf edges.

Deb Agarwal

Water Drops Succulant

Tim Kneafsey

Kauai

I was walking at a brisk pace and panning a dark green forest floor on Kauai with long exposures. The resulting abstract allows the viewer to decide what the image looks like to them.

Doug Lockhart

St. Patrick's Day 2021

My wife, 2nd grade teacher, went to school like this. She told the kids that Leprechauns are required to wear their official uniform on St. Patrick's Day.

Two of kids said that she was the best teacher ever.

Haris Mahic

The Hulk

A few months before pandemic there was a fire at the corner of Union and Columbus in SF. Fortunately nobody was injured. Building is entirely gutted. But the board up is covered with murals. (If we did red, I would submit spiderman, ha ha).

Michael Wehner

Slot Canyon

Not Antelope Canyon, this picture was taken on a wild, windy day deep in one of the most remote, technical slot canyons in Utah, over sixty miles from the nearest paved road. A truly transcendent place perfect for social distancing.

Joshua Landau

Dahlia

TimKneafsey

Succulent In the Backyard

2020 was a year mostly spent in my own backyard! I began to notice things in detail and got this shot after a light rain.

Stephanie Daglia

Jumping Spider

I managed to spot a tiny jumping spider back in late October. I like how the spider seems to be contemplating its next leap off the edge of the leaf.

This is nothing compared to pictures from the likes of Thomas Shahan but I was happy to have spotted it and you have to start somewhere.

Stephen Czarnecki

Sandhill Crane flying

During this past year when we needed to find activities that did not involve getting near other people and were outdoors, bird watching was an obvious choice. This photo is from a day spent watching the sandhill cranes that winter in the Sacramento delta area. I have been out there several times and it is always magical.

Deb Agarwal

Freckles

My youngest son has the best freckles. Taken with an iPhone.

Monique Fix

ALS

Work at Advanced Light Source under COVID

Haris Mahic

In the Stove Lab

For the DOE Earth Day photo contest in 2015, I went around to a few labs to take some photos to enter. I shot this in the Stove Lab (Energy Technologies Area). Julien Caubel is tending a small traditional cookstove to investigate its type and quantity of emissions as well its energy efficiency. I used a fish-eye lens to capture as much of the scene as possible in that small space.

John Christensen

Deer in Late Afternoon Sun

A member of the lab's resident wildlife relaxing in the late afternoon sun. I have lots of pictures of deer at the lab but have always liked the light on this one.

Stephen Czarnecki

Wettability

OutsideB74

TimKneafsey

Beamline

TimKneafsey

Hopper

On the top floor of building 59 the doors of the NERSC-7 supercomputer, "Hopper", named after Admiral Grace Hopper, computing pioneer, are kept on display in her honour.

Chris Samuel