Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: air bubbles

[best appreciated at full size against black] Looking around for interesting frost shots a few weeks ago, I made my way down to our seasonal pond. There hadn't been much rain so there was only a small amount of water in it. I was delighted to find a thick coating of ice on the surface, with frozen air bubbles encasing leaves under the surface. Here are some bubbles encased just under the surface of the pond. If you look closely, you can see the shapes of leaves under the ice! :D I've uploaded two other pictures today and I hope you'll visit them too! Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :) NOTE! I have finally updated my profile and I hope you'll take a look to find out a little more about me and how important all of you are to my experience here on Flickr! www.flickr.com/people/sfhipchick/ This image was taken in January, 2012.

[best appreciated at full size against black] Here's the perfect music for this picture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCiDEXuxxA At the top of the Upper and Lower Table Rocks, there are seasonal marshy areas called vernal pools. They are the home to many plants and animals, including the very rare fairy shrimp and a flower found only on the Table Rocks, Dwarf Wooly Meadowfoam. (I hope to take pictures of both as the season progresses!). I didn't think I'd find any frogs, though they were making an incredible racket, but I thought I might see a pollywog or two. Nope. What I DID find were zillions of little black beetles zooming around in the water! I took some pictures, all the while figuring they wouldn't be interesting enough to post, but when I got home and looked at my images I found... TINY BUBBLES!! After looking through my pictures, I realized that making a collage with the bubbles would be much more fun than showing off the water scavenger beetles, which you can also see in three of the pictures here. I hope you like them! :D If you would like to know more about water scavenger beetles, take a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophilidae If you would like to know more about vernal pools and the Table Rocks, take a look here! :) www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/tablerock/table-rock-... This image was taken in March, 2012.