Wet

Silver Beads

I found one stem that had raindrops all along its length. Fortunately for me, it was isolated from the others and I knew immediately I wanted shots of this.

Presenting in black and white was favorable for drawing attention to the lines and simplicity of the subject. The colour would have busied the composition.

I shot at 1/200 with an f stop of f/2.8. My focal length was 60 mm and my ISO 100.

Catching Raindrops

It is a rainy morning here in Winnipeg, the perfect time to try and catch some raindrops.

I set my camera up on my tripod with my 75-300mm lens and attached my remote switch to avoid camera shake. I didn't have to wait long at all for each of the drips to drop. My problem was speed, or the lack-there-of. Even with bumping up my ISO, my lens was just not fast enough to stop the action of the drop in lower light conditions. Well, I guess it could have but the image would have been too dark to see a thing!

I settled on shooting the drop still clinging to the grape leaf and used a speed of 1/80  and also f5.6 for barely adequate exposure. ISO was way up there at 1000. Because I was shooting through a screened window, the noise was not as great an issue as it would have been for just about any other shot. There was enough other stuff going on to mask it. I did add a layer in processing to hide the noise even more and darken the shadows.

Water Falls

Water doesn't just fall straight down. The shortest distance between two points is not its only route.

Another Plane

Trading and Settling

As the seasons trade but before they settle, we have winter's snow one day and a spring melt the next.

Here, time stops, as though the seasons are holding their breath, waiting to see what comes next, who will stay and who will go.

The sun catches the frozen drops, echoing their shape and chill across the surface of the leaf.

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Christmas Give-Away post.)

Treasure

She held a treasure. She held it close.