Nature’s controlled explosion

Lake Chabot | August 19, 2010

The farmers market is always a fantastic treat for the palette as well as the eye.  Eat plants.  Buy local.  Meet the farmer who grows your food.

Albino Alligator | Starfish

Tule Elk  |  Crow

California Coast

“They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.”
– Henry Beston

Fractal geometry records what happens in the transition zones between order and chaos.  What is revealed is an aesthetic order to the haphazard grouping.

“King Snakes feed on other snakes but also eat many kinds of rodents.”

Water and Sand

Fractal compositions created by nature’s push and pull.

Crissy Marsh | May 26, 2010 | 4:22 pm – 4:27 pm

giraffe | dried earth

Put simply, fractals are rough or fragmented and repeating geometric patterns that vary according to a set formula;  a mixture of art and geometry.  Approximate examples of fractal self-similarity echo through nature on infinitely different scales.

Each pair of photos here compare these patterns as they cascade through the natural world.  The aerial photo on the left, taken from 5-7 miles aloft, is compared to a micro or land-based view on the right.  Once considered,  the geometry of fractals found in nature is ubiquitous.

All photos are © Martin Klimek Photography.