Raindrops [Wassertropfen]
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Taken through my sittingroom window just after dawn. The lashing rain finally stopped just after sunset. A bucket in our back garden, empty last night, was half full.
Raindrops lit up by the sun on a bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae) flower bud.
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Favourite thing captured for "Looking close... on Friday!" theme: Roses. HLCoF everyone!
And for The Flickr Lounge weekend theme (week #6): Photographer's Choice
And for 121 pictures in 2021 #33 Favourite things
So.......One day when it was raining like crazy outside I decided I was going to try to catch myself a raindrop. Easier said than done, at least for me :-) After what seemed like shooting 100's of photo's I got this one, Yeah! I was satisfied. The crazy things I do for entertainment. I know my neighbors think I have totaly lost it. :-)
"Looking close... on Friday!/ gotas de lluvia o rocío".
A dear friend gave us this floribunda rose called 'Eternity'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqBa1RCE8F4
I'm not a poet, a philosopher or a romantic but I loved the music and the pictures on this video.
And Whiskers on Kittens (The Sound of Music 1965) - From 'My Favourite Things' sung by Julie Andrews
with all the rainy days we experienced in May, it was easy to take such photo. I post it today for the group Looking close on Friday.
bon vendredi ( le 24 c'est la fête des Québecois- je partagrai une autre photo symbolique du Québec)
An opening Hippeastrum flower.
When I first got a macro lens and started photographing flowers, I would choose a deep dof and use a tripod. However, I have come to like the blur and bokeh that come with shallow dofs. Auto focusing has improved and despite my hands being a little shaky, I take more photos hand-held now. As Brian Mangan pointed, out shake reduction has improved too.
Have a wonderful new week!
Winter in Melbourne this year has been bitterly cold: the coldest winter since 1947. Yet even amidst the cold temperatures, grey skies and fairly constant rain, there are some moments of pure beauty, like this Paradise Blush sasanqua camellia flowering in my rear garden. I caught it basking in a bit of sunshine, covered in diamond raindrops the other day. A lovely splash of colour and beauty on a rainy winter's day.
The Camellia Sasanqua Paradise Blush has deep rosy pink buds that open to small, white, semi double flowers with shaded pink reverse petals. It is a hardy, long living shrub that can grow into a small tree.