Taken for my Lancaster Photographic Society competition on Patterns and Shapes and please to say scored 19/20

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Tap water with refraction of Ladybirds

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Saturday Self Challenge

This week's challenge is to photograph refraction.

***N.B. refraction is NOT the same as reflection which is the bouncing of light from a surface***

This is the shot I had prepared before I took the photo of the swan, which I was doubtful about from the start, so I’ve removed it from the group and replaced it with this.

To create this I placed my iPhone torch on a black surface behind two bottles of perfume, one much smaller than the other, I then captured the image from above of the light shining through the two bottles. On its own it looked a little boring so I duplicated the picture using Affinity Photo on iPad.

Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

I like looking for these tiny refracted images after a rain. This one shows part of our screened-in porch.

1st Place, Still Life, Kidlington Photo Group :-)

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This is a photo of refraction patterns of sunlight shining through the current in a shallow section of an estuary river that flows across Clam Harbour Beach.

waterdrops on flowering grass with daisy refractions

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Still no actual rainfall. Just cloudy misty days… Maybe next week we stand a chance of measurable rainfall.. But Misty drops are everywhere! ❤️

we're here - refracted

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Thanks for your comments, critiques and faves!

Olympus digital camera

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Gerbera refractions

More practising trying to get the flower inside the droplets, so frustrating trying to place the droplets then the slightest movement and its off.

spider and web refraction.

I am on holiday in Spain at the moment but have brought a few images with me so I can keep posting through to the end of Arachtober

for Arachtober 28

Round Valley, February 20, 2022

The rain never really stopped through the night.

Woke up to diamond looking droplets all over my new growing daisy plant that probably will not flower because of my late start... but I got drops... and a bug!!!

Technical Stuff

50mm lens reversal on a 90mm Tamron macro lens, both attached to a Canon 40D.

430EX flash with a light chute attached to provide light in front of lens.

f/32 ~ 1/60 ~ ISO/100 ~ Flash @ 3/4

(hand-held for pure adrenaline excitement)

Have a Spectacular Saturday all Flickr friends, and many-many thanks for stopping into the Noble Stance shot I loaded last night, very much appreciated.

Big thanks to all the external support coming from around the globe, also very much appreciated.

BIG HELLO from Ottawa, Canada and HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

He has problems with his legs and comes here to rest almost every day.

I set the globe on a stump I call the Ancestral Tree.

Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.

This is a photo of light from a window refracted through an empty Suntory whisky bottle.

10 second exposure

Dewdrop refraction with goldfish.

Just in case you are wondering, I placed an upside down picture of goldfish behind the dewdrop :)

SL2S + Leica Elmarit-R 180mm v2

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Or maybe they're fractious carrots. They do get that way sometimes.

Found this dewdrop about 1 inch below a grass blade tip on a piece of spider's web. Had to try a flower refraction

CD Refractions

Compositionally Challenged Week 20 - Water Drops

Refraction.

Glossy Ibis catching the sun with shimmering iridescence at Ocean City, New Jersey

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Black-eyed susan dewdrop refraction

CD Refractions

This picture was taken with an Amlong Crystal Ball.

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The glass is flipped 180 degrees in this image so you can see the refraction.

I took this in the garden at lunchtime. Despite the sun shining, it was very cold to the hands and I had to manually focus whilst shivering, so I knew it wouldn't be spot on, but I just suddenly had the urge to try it. Inspired by Lord V and his wonderful work.

Its started to get rather cold and rainy here. Classic late October weather for us. The flowers will all be gone after it freezes tonight. Winter is coming, again.

Time to start shooting things inside.

Shot using a a Tokina AT-X Macro 90mm f2.5 with the 1:1 extender and a 5mm extension tube to get just beyond 1:1 for this shot.

A simple attempt at this type of macro photography. Some drops of water on wilted ball flower petals. The water drops acting like a lens for the flower in the background. Stopped down for maximum depth of field. There are many better examples of this kind of thing on Flickr using focus stacking but I am lazy.