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Nope, just a very accurate photo: "The fronds bear short colorless hairs in summer." :-) --Cart (talk) 14:19, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Other lifeforms#Order: Laminariales
•  Info Strands of Chorda filum growing among Cladophora glomerata. Or: "... as Kirk looked out the bridge window of the Enterprise, he saw the tentacles of the alien lifeform emerging from the nebula...". All by me, -- Cart (talk) 11:39, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

And then it turned out to be another Cocteau Twins record cover. Daniel Case (talk) 03:36, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Support -- Cart (talk) 11:39, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 14:13, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - PROPOLI87 (talk) 15:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

• PROPOLI87, hold on a second... You have not voted for any other photo, are you 'supporting' my photo just because I'm helping you out here on FPC? That is not how it's supposed to be with votes. If that was the reason, you should remove your vote. A vote should be strictly about the photo and not the person who made it. --Cart (talk) 15:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

• I voted for your photo because I am fascinated by the colors of your photo and also for the subject. I participated in the science wiki and I am sure that your photo in that contest would have had excellent results. In addition I will also vote for other photos. By the way, a question, but why does my PROPOLI87 appear in red? What did I do wrong?

• @PROPOLI87: Ok thanks, that is very kind of you. I only wanted to make sure since you are new here on FPC and can still make mistakes. :-) Your name is in red because you haven't activated your user page yet. It is a good way to see who is new to the site and might need extra help and consideration. As soon as you write something on User:PROPOLI87 (A "hi!" is enough) and save it, your signature will turn blue. --Cart (talk) 15:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

• Ok. thank you PROPOLI87 (talk) 15:56, 18 February 2020

•  Support The late William Turner might have liked this. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 16:17, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Wow. :-) --XRay ^talk 16:41, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 16:50, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:34, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per others. Great to look at and high quality! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:44, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Podzemnik (talk) 03:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per others. --Aristeas (talk) 08:32, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:50, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose Unless I am mistaken Cart, there is much evidence of poor post-processing, like where I have placed a note on the image. There are obvious 'halos' around most of the dark strands. Charles (talk) 14:03, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

• Ah Charles, in this case I'm afraid you really are mistaken. Those are not 'halos', the strands are simply hairy. Quote from the WP article: "The fronds bear short colorless hairs in summer." I had to be really careful with the post-processing so I wouldn't ruin this very good photo of those tiny hairs the fronds are covered with. You can only see them in underwater photos of the algae since they cling on to the stem and become "invisible" when you photograph the algae out of water. The fine hairs, almost like a fur, can be seen in this photo as well. I am quite proud of having been able to get such minute details of the algae in these photos, those hairs are only about 1-3 mm long. You can see a drawing of the hairs in fig 1. in this book illustration and fig 31. in this. --Cart (talk) 14:16, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
• Weird, many apologies. Charles (talk) 15:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

• Well, not that weird if you think about it. Since the plant is just strands, the hairs is a way for this algae to radically increase its surface to pick the molecules it needs from the water (it has no roots, just a suction cup that keeps it attached to the bottom). A trick nature uses in many lifeforms, like the Intestinal villus in our own intestines. --Cart (talk) 15:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 17:40, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JukoFF (talk) 13:03, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent image, Cart... Sadly, when I look off the end of a dock, I usually just see dull water and maybe a fish :( --GRDN711 (talk) 20:24, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

• You really should try to take a few photos and just play a bit with the controls in Lightroom. You might be surprised what you can actually see with a few adjustments. :-) --Cart (talk) 20:53, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:36, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose Overprocessed, would like to see the original photo. —kallerna (talk) 04:25, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 06:19, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Eatcha (talk) 14:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support looks like one of the first scenes from a Flying Spaghetti Monster Genesis story :) — Rhododendrites ^talk |  16:28, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 05:12, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 20:03, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:41, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 22 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 16:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Other lifeforms#Order: Laminariales