Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Water!

Here are a few photos of very tiny water drops which clung to a mushroom or fungus growing out of the shady side of a tree stump. I like how they look so round, the seem to be caught in motion while rolling down the side. But they were all stationary, in reality.

In the first photo above, my flash had failed to fire, so this picture is the result of some extreme exposure adjustment to compensate for the lack of light. But I like the color and graininess anyway, so here it is. The other photos are the result of my flash firing as I'd planned and are fascinating for their own reasons. I like the look of the focused light landing on the mushroom surface after having traveled through the lens of water.

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Wine and Cheese Social

It's standard practice to have refreshments, something like wine and cheese, for guests at an art opening or studio tour. For my Tiny Lab exhibit at the Hoboken Studio Tour, I chose to forego edible refreshments, and instead gave out small cards printed with macro images of wine and cheese. I had hoped these would be memorable and unique for my guests.

I did get some positive feedback, some visitors did seem delighted. And at least one blogger mentioned my refreshments in his blog. So I suppose it worked.

Above and below are two microphoto images of port. This came from the bottom of the bottle, so the sediment (composed primarily of shredded grape skins I guess) has collected in these drops I used in the setup. I love the color and luminance of these photos.

Below are two microphotos of cheese. The one directly below here is cheddar, and the one at the bottom of this post is gruyere. In both cases, I had simply sliced a thin sliver of cheese, and then torn the edge to get an interesting subject for the photo. Some visitors to Tiny Lab were a bit skeptical that this was cheese. I assure it you it was.

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Sunflower Surprises

We had some large sunflowers in a vase at home, so I took a look with the macro lens. Here's what I found: A very tiny droplet and a blue crystal of some substance.

The water drop must have been quite small, considering the width of the photo measures an area only about 5mm wide. I didn't know it was there and didn't expect to find it while just shooting the end of  a couple petals.

The photo below contains some parts of the flower that I believe held pollen at one point. Unexpectedly, I found a tiny blue crystal nestled among the structures. I am guessing that it's the dried/crystallized remains of a pesticide or fertilizer that had been sprayed on the field of sunflowers.

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A Couple of Pretty Things

A macro of the curly end of a viney thing above which was hanging out twisted among the branches of one of mom's bushes. She didn't know that it was there and proceeded to rip out almost an entire bush-worth of vines! So FINALLY, eight-and-a-half months of macro photos have resulted in one practical use of them! Vine detective.

Below is just a photo I thought was artsy and cool. I've posted photos of water droplets before, here and here and here, and love how they warp and twist the light traveling through them.

Below are the petals of a clover, those tiny flowers among the grass that bees love so much.

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Silver Drop

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More water on leaves. I love how the background turned out in this one. Nothing special was done to the photo in post-processing, the colors and focus is accurate to how it was captured.

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Droplets and Oceans

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Here's another water shot.

I've said that I'm obsessed with water in macro photos, and I have the pictures to prove it. This will not be the last silvery glistening water drop picture.

My favorite detail on this photo is the little drops stationed on the spiky edges of the leaf. They're so precarious and fragile, and though their round shape could make them visually appear ready to roll off the edge, they maintain a weighted quality that belies their miniature volume.

The middle drop looks less stable, and indeed it was like a sea waiting to roll down the center gutter of the leaf in comparison to the microscopic droplets along the perimeter. Isn't it cool how we can see the shimmery pattern of the leaf texture through the big drop down to its bottom?

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Rush Hour

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Dew drops line up on a tiny leaf. These droplets were about the size of BBs.

I shoot a lot of water and ice. The way light bounces and refracts inside of them is fascinating to me. I love how round these little balls of water are, how they look ready to just roll right off the leaf. So different than the pouring, splashy water we know in the world of bigger things.

This leaf was about an inch or smaller in real life.

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