Ice Fishies

Just a quick post today. This is one of my favorite ice bubble photos that I've taken. I was lucky to have the opportunity to see it printed huge for an installation I did at the offices of New York design boutique, String Theory. It looks great huge (60" x 90") as well as on screen!

To me, this looks like a photo of fish swimming up a stream.

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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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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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More Bubbles in Streaming Tap Water

I have consistently received such a positive, surprised, and delighted response from my previous tap water photo, that I decided to shoot a few more for kicks. So here you go, tap water fans. Drink up.

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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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Streaming tap water, captured in high-speed

Another type of photography that fascinates me (there are so many!) is high-speed photography. In this case, I've shot a macro semi-high-speed photo of water streaming out of the tap.

What I found with this shot was how the stream of water was completely filled with bubbles. And it seems like such a strange idea that water moving so fast from the tap could be so filled with bubbles. And they look so big too! So diamond-like and sparkly.

If I didn't know what this was, I would never have guessed that it's simply tap water.

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Slurp

This little guy stopped for a drink in a cupped leaf. He was about 18mm long and a poor conversationalist.

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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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Chandelier

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Another ice photo. I admit, I love them.

They're beautiful and alien. This photo was taken at a point when these bubbles in the ice were just being released from captivity into the water. So they are emerging from the edge of the ice where the air was contained in long, tube-like snakey structures.

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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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Ice Creatures

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Another photo of ice filled with bubbles. The shapes these little pockets of air make inside the ice are incredible. You will see in some other ice photos that I've not yet posted, the bubbles--molded by pressure and time through the freezing process--make fantastic shapes. They often look like Christmas ornaments, bulbous, snaking, and silvery.

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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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Sunrise

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Welcome to the first post in a series of macro photos, the Morning Macro.

I thought it would be fun to show these tiny worlds which are often easy to overlook. I'm fascinated with how different everything looks under such high magnification, so beautiful.

I will try to post these regularly, the name of the blog implies daily. We'll see about that ;-) In any case, thanks for visiting!

Above, you are seeing a macro photo of ice, up close and personal. Part of the charm of a good macro photo is an interesting method of lighting. This was inside a colored plastic cup and the flash came through the colored side to light the scene.

I love the soft focus and glowy lighting of this image.

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