Water Drops in the Morning
It rained overnight. In the morning the sun came out. I was up early with camera and macro lens, crawling on my belly to seek out nature's most unfathomably beautiful…
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April 8, 2020
Rainy Day in Paris
Last night as a lay under my quilt in my garret room I heard the wind in a racing howl across Paris. I fell asleep to the rhythm of the…
October 30, 2018
Spider Web Bokeh
The other day dawned here in Berkeley, California with low, clinging fog. It was like being in the middle of a cloud. The thing about this kind of weather is…
October 13, 2015
Rain on Variegated Bamboo
Last week there was a much-needed overnight rain. Early in the morning I prowled the neighborhood with my camera and tripod, and as the showers were winding down photographed these…
April 27, 2015
Waterdrops via Otus 85
I shot this image with my new Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 lens during a break in the rainy weather. To get closer to the waterdrops, I added a 36mm extension…
December 21, 2014
Solar Flare
Rain in California this spring has been sorely needed. It has fallen intermittently and blessedly heavy at times---but never enough to stop the drought or replenish the reservoirs. After one…
April 10, 2014
Down in the ditch where the waterdrops are
To get a shot like this of waterdrops means getting wet, particularly when it is raining. And raining it was in Hudson Gardens in Littleton, Colorado where I was taping…
September 15, 2013
Natural Jewelry
If you've been following my blog or my Flickr stream you may have noticed more than the usual proportion of extreme macro shots involving waterdrops. Well, I do love shooting…
March 8, 2012
Paperwhite Waterdrops
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
December 18, 2011
Splendour in the Grass
I arrived early for a workshop I was leading in Bear Valley, the park headquarters for Point Reyes National Seashore. As soon as I parked my car I noticed a…
November 25, 2011
Within the Web
To make this image, first I needed one wet spider web with a colorful background. The web I found is shown in a somewhat more conventional image in Wet Web.…
November 14, 2011
Web Architecture
When I drop Katie Rose off at Step One, the area around her pre-school is often in the clouds, with drops of water clinging to flora---and spider webs. The other…
October 25, 2011
Sweet Melancholy
There's nothing like watching rain from inside where it is warm and dry to usher in feelings of sweet melancholy. Yesterday, a warm and gentle rain fell like a curtain…
October 11, 2011
Sun and Waterdrops
The day started with a massive downpour. Then there was a sunny interlude before the rain began again. Things continued in this intermittent vein. I took advantage of a lull…
October 6, 2011
Anemone and Water Drops
How fine it is to take advantage of a light rain, and photograph waterdrops caught in a spider web! A small, delicate flower, an anemone, is behind the web and…
October 3, 2011
In the Zone
In a photography blog, when you see the word "zone" in the title of a story it is not unreasonable to assume you may be reading about the Zone system---the…
July 2, 2011
Falling Flowers
For a shot like this to work, everything has to fall into place. In a brief intermission between taking care of Katie Rose (she was napping) and getting a book…
April 25, 2011
Sunshine on a Rainy Day
Briefly noted: Out shooting waterdrops during a break in the rainy weather we've had recently. Liquid sunshine in a drop! EXIF data: 200mm f/4 macro, 36mm extension tube, +4 close-up…
March 21, 2011