Camouflage pattern and method of making same

A realistic appearing camouflage pattern, comprising:

• a fish species and underwater environmental elements in repeating underwater photographically or graphically realistic images simulating a natural underwater habitat of the fish species,
• the underwater images having a background, foreground and midground, and having colorations which are natural colors of the fish species, the environmental elements and light reflected the water, the fish species partially concealed by the foreground and having colorations matching the colorations of the environmental elements, the environmental elements being rocks, water grasses, water plants, branches, logs, leaves, sands, corals or combinations thereof, and the midground overlaying the background, and the foreground overlaying the midground.

A realistic appearing camouflage material for use in clothing or other articles, comprising a repeating pattern simulating a natural underwater three-dimensional habitat of a fish species, the pattern comprising one or more fish and natural underwater environmental elements, and having a background, a foreground and a midground,

• the background and the foreground having the natural underwater environmental elements which are water plants, water grasses, rocks, branches, logs, leaves, sands, corals or combinations thereof, the background and the foreground being any shade of green, blue-green or yellow, from light green to blue-green and from yellow to yellow-green, the midground having the fish overlaying the background and partially concealed by the foreground, and the fish having a variety of different sizes and markings including striations, speckles and splotches, the fish assuming any number of different arrangements or positions in relation to each other and the underwater environmental elements, the fish sometimes overlapping or touching the underwater environmental elements tangentially, and the fish being of one or more varying shades of gray, silver, silver-brown, green, brown, blue-green, yellow-green, blue-silver, white, black, and combinations thereof.

An underwater camouflage comprising a composite image of underwater elements which are fish and environmental elements simulating the natural underwater habitat of the fish, the composite image being a repeating pattern having a background, foreground and midground,

• the background and foreground having the underwater environmental elements which are water plants, leaves, branches, logs, leaves, water grasses, sands, corals and combinations thereof, the foreground underwater environmental elements overlaying the midground;
• the midground having one or more of the fish,
• the fish partially concealed by the foreground, and overlapping or touching the background underwater environmental elements, the fish having colorations which are shades of gray, silver, silver-brown, green, brown, blue-green, yellow-green, blue-silver, black, white or combinations thereof.

A method of making a camouflage material, comprising:

• forming an image of a realistic-appearing camouflage pattern on an image transfer medium, the pattern comprising repeating images of a simulated three-dimensional natural underwater environment having fish species therein, the image having a background, foreground and midground, the background and foreground depicting underwater environmental elements which include water plants, leaves, branches, logs, water grasses, sands, corals and combinations thereof, and the midground depicting one or more fish native to the environment, the midground overlaying the background, and the foreground overlaying the midground to partially conceal the fish, wherein the images have colorations which include natural colors of the fish, the environment and light reflected in the water.