raindrop reflected

Hi Lee…yes it is real, taken in my garden yesterday morning…I don’t even know what ‘memorex’ is?

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Thank you…I thought so too. I’d been having some trouble with my macro over the previous week, so was very pleased to see that one worked.

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Hi Gail,
Thank you for your kind comment. The reflection really caught my eye when I uploaded it on the computer.

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Thank you Marion for the compliment…It’s hard to improve upon the perfection of Nature, isn’t it?

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Thank you Bev. I hadn’t thought of it quite that way, but you’re right…it is dainty.

Macro shots constantly surprise when I see them translated to the computer screen. For I then see through the eye of the camera lens rather than those of my own eyes, which have significantly less range.

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Thank you Sharon. It’s not quite what I was intending, but then I’m tending to become overly fussy and demanding a lot of both myself and my camera.
So I’ve begun doing a bit of dreaming and looking at an SLR and closer macro lens…its a genre I love, my fav I think!

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Hi! Thanks for your lovely comment and compliment.
I love the reflection but am a tad disappointed in my macro work; but then that is a constant at the moment…just trying to improve my technique further, but I suspect what I want to achieve cannot be done without buying new, closer lens!
So, I’m very relieved and pleased to receive your response.

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oh yes….I think I recall that dimly from my 3 years of living in the States some many years ago.

Apologies for not picking up on that! ; )

Glad you like the pic tho’

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oooh! I like it!

Would you mind if I pinched it and changed the title?

Thanks so much for your great comment.

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So did/so I!
I was amazed when I spotted it. But this was almost the only one of a number I shot that morning. It was actually a very frustrating exercise, so to find a gem like this amongst the uploaded shots was not only rewarding, but a relief!
I never tire of the miracle of the creation!

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Thank you solar….its rather fun, isn’t it? I love the amazing optical magic of raindrops and I thought this one rather nice.

Glad you like it too.

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Oh wow!!!!
I can barely believe what I am reading…you are so amazing and so sweet to say such beautiful things.
It is the Lord I see in such midget miracles..hence my passion for macro..and in the creation/nature.
And my constant prayer is that he will be seen and made present visible and real to others through me.
All I want is to be an instrument for his love.

I am indeed blessed!

love you, Jan

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Thank you Deanna…but I’m actually thinking I may re-load a cropped version of it. I think there’s too much ‘waste space’ at the bottom and in the foreground, which naturally detracts from the focal point ~ the raindrop with its reflection.

What do you think? I value your experience and judgement in such things.

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haha…I have just this minute finished working on it and thus far have merely cropped it. I’ll upload it and save the changes, so you can have a look and see what you think…but I’ll take up your suggestion Deanna and have a shot at blurring too.
Easy to do and can be very effective!!

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Serenity, I’m so very, very sorry I haven’t replied to your wonderful comment before now.
You’ve been waiting here, hidden and unnoticed all this time! :O

I love it that you love the reflection in the drop…seems a lot of people do, including me! It was one of the fortunate accidents!!

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Hi Kim.
Thank you so much…when I saw this pic pop up on my computer screen I must confess to being amazed at what the camera had happened to capture!
So I’m really glad you like it!

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OH I am so humbled and touched by your words and enthusiasm…
There’s not a lot of difference between the H7 and H9…I’m pretty sure from memory that they both have 1cm macro (rare indeed) and Carl Zeiss lens, also rare and awesome quality.
But this shot was a bit of a fluke and I have managed to get anything quite like it since, no matter how much I’ve tried. But to heed my earlier words, sometimes in trying we forget who enabled us in the first place and who’s the gift giver. When we acknowledge that and allow him to be in the driving seat and just relax, the amazing will happen.

I am so humbled by your wonderful words, comments and favouriting of this piece, even though I must admit it’s one of my favourites too!!..xxxx

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Hi there. Thank you for your exceptional comment, oh ye exceptional moderator of *Exceptional Ekphrasis!, couldn’t resist.
and yet again your magical words, and the way they simply slip off your fingers onto our computer screens, mesmerise and inspire me!!!!...xxxx

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Thanks so much David…I’m rapt that you like this one…as it was my very first (digital) macro and almost an accident. I had no idea what would happen when I hit the shutter release button.
It’s just been chosen to go on the cover of a course curriculum too, which awesome and affirming all at the one time…Have a great day!..xx

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Thanks David for your encouragement…but I don’t know that I need any encouragement to take photos..think I’m addicted. Maybe I unknowingly operate on the practise makes better or greater philosophy. If that were only so!! I’d be at those heights already if frequency meant anything! lol..xxxx

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