A vertical photograph taken within a dense, dark forest with towering pine trees. Bright sunlight bursts through the upper canopy, creating distinct, hazy sunbeams (crepuscular rays) that cut through the shadows. These rays illuminate a narrow wooden boardwalk path winding centrally through the forest floor, leading the viewer's eye toward the source of the light. The scene is high-contrast and atmospheric, evoking a sense of mystery and serenity.
Pretty pebble - the iron rich circular spots that run through this pebble may have been the spaces that small burrows or roots made back when this was a soft mud over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
Part of a Furbellows (Saccorhiza polyschides) holdfast.
Like the name suggests, "holdfasts" are what seaweeds use to attach themselves to the rocky sea floor. In the Tidal zone, they prevent waves from washing them away until either the waves or the seaweed gets too big.
County Clare, Ireland.
It might look like a big sharks tooth, but it's actually a piece of limestone topped with a pointy chunk of fossilized communal Coral.
Remnants of the tropical sea bed that covered this area over 320 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
County Clare, Ireland.