I didn't manage to catch any falling droplets from the icicles in my previous photo (at least not with any degree of sharpness, since I didn't have my faster 50mm lens on), so here is one from last winter. I doubt we are going to have any more snow or ice this season, so there go my chances of trying this again!

... this is a different crop (a square crop that I love these days) and re-edit of a photo I'd posted last year....

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Mute swans are pretty uncommon in northern California, but there's a bunch of them on Cameron Lake. Perhaps they're "locally common".

Cameron Park, Ca. March, 2021.

I liked the drips made as I watered my window box tulips yesterday. It seemed as if each one contained its own little garden. The image is flipped vertically.

...and when I was done shooting -there was a lot of splashes too...

One more day to go before I'm disconnected. Yay! Then the side effects kick in. Boo!

You got that special sauce to spur my curiosity

The textile factory with weaving mill and spinning mill is located in the heart of a new cultural quarter between Bocholt city center and Lake Aasee. The two locations of the Industrial Museum are connected by a bridge over the River Aa. In the imposing halls of the historic Herding spinning mill, you can gain exciting insights into historic and modern technology, experience the history of fashion and current design.

Etta found some water

Water droplets on a banana leaf.

Had Rain last-night,but they say we will have some Sun later in the week.

Detail from an exhibition piece.

Danish Architecture Center (DAC) Slide, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Scribbly Gum Moth (Ogmograptis scribula) Larvae Trails "decorate" the bark of Scribbly Gums without hurting them.

♡Love these trees♡

An American Flamingo looks up to scan its surrounding between feedings on Honeymoon Island.

View on Black | Full Stream on Black

Another from the archives of 2009...

Meh.... it's colorful and fun.....

drip collector

After a night of heavy rain you can see how nature stores water. The thick raindrops can be seen on the plant. the plant is from the genus Spurge (Euphorbia) it is incomparably diverse with a number of over 2000 species worldwide.Tropfensammler

Nach einer Nacht mit viel Regen kann man sehen wie in der Natur Wasser gespeichert wird. Die diken Regentropfen sind auf der Pflanze zu sehen. bei der Pflanze handelt es sich um die Gattung Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia) sie ist mit einer Zahl von weltweit über 2000 Arten unvergleichlich vielfältig.

Etta at Cataract Creek

I'd forgotten how green everything is in spring, this a top down shot of lilies after a spring shower...

for Macro Mondays

Note 100% happy with the sharpness of this but I can't be bothered to retake it because it's so hot the varnish dries up as soon as it gets to the end of the brush and I have to sit there for ages with my finger on the trigger waiting for it to drip.

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Etta's been in the waterhole :)

Daily Dog Challenge: Fibonacci

I hadn't heard of this before but it's quite fascinating. I think, if I understand correctly, that this approximates the Fibonacci spiral. Hope so :I

Happy Mothers Day <3 hugs everyone <3

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Number 29 in the group 52 in 2016 Challenge list

Actinotus helianthi

Flannel Flower

I went to nearby Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. I took two shots of this Japanese fountain with an LED light from two different directions, then blended them together.

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To much time on my hands lol

A minnow looks enviously at a drip of water that has broken free of the beak tip of a juvenile Tri-colored Heron on Horsepen Bayou.

Just walking around Rome

This image was captured for the Macro Mondays theme: "drips, drops and splashes".

Perhaps the most frustrating theme I've attempted, this shot represents one of about five hundred shots captured for the theme.

I love watching drops as they gather along horizontal surfaces. Forming a tidy row, they start small and grow in size, plumping and stretching. The bigger they get, the better I can see the fantastical, upside-down version of my world inside each watery orb. Pulled by gravity, they tremble to hold on but eventually they fall and the cycle begins again.

Like a giant metronome of life, they measure the moments.

Drip, drop. Tick, tock.

First attempt playing with water drips

Long-billed Dowitcher drains the long bill on a small pond near Jamaica Beach, Galveston Island.