Once again I owe much to the high sensitivity and the image stabilization of modern digital cameras, the light was very low indeed, almost night.
I have emulated the darkness in the image with a little manipulation. The camera of course tends to make all pictures neutral no matter the light level.
Dayu said:
amazing to think one has the technology today to capture a visual of a streamlet (a droplet streaming?) of rain falling...
eolake said...
Interestingly, though, I only saw the drops on the lamp post after the fact. It was getting dark very rapidly, so I was working very fast, and I was really photographing the tree with the red house behind it. (The dusk light was very red at the point.) It was only the last images I took that I thought to focus on the post instead of the tree, and I finally judged that to be the superior image.
Below is an earlier version. You'll see that in the top image I zoomed in closer also. And I dampened some of the brigher parts of the background in the computer.
I don't think I would have gotten to the final version at all if I'd been shooting film. Even if I could have gotten myself to use that much film that rapidly, it is still a matter of running out of film every 36 pictures, and then having to get it developed and scanned.
God gave us the leaves of nature, and Eolake to show them at their best.
ReplyDeleteVery nice.
ReplyDeletefall time always depressed me because it was a season warning us that the cold and dark days of winter were lingering in the shadows ready to strike.
ReplyDeletesome like the fall but not me, it's a prelude to dead trees and unwanted frost that holds us hostage to it's wrath of ice and void.
more suicides happen in the winter than the spring or summer and it doesn't suprize me. short days and eternal night is not a favorite combo for me.
but for those of you who like it, please enjoy it. i need a paxil.
terry said: "more suicides happen in the winter than the spring or summer and it doesn't surprize me"
ReplyDeleteApparently this varies then. Here in Scandinavia more suicides are committed in Spring than in other seasons.
I'm a fan of Autumn myself. I do see your point about it being a prelude to "death" of the foliage. But rather than concentrating on that I enjoy the calmness, clean air and the colours.
One of my favorite moments in the world is an autumn morning. When the Universe is just ideally neutral. Not bright, not dark; not hot, not chilly; not rainy, not dry. At such moments, it feels like time is standing still for special me. And it feels like Nature isn't trying to impose any mood on me, be it positive or negative, just letting me be me.
ReplyDeleteNo bright sun that says "come on, everybody, go out and play, let's ALL be happy and jump around", no gloom that says "if you're feeling optimistic at this moment you should be ashamed".
Perhaps it is just that I love to be in a calm and quiet world, no crowd, no racket, no running around, free to listen to my soul...
I've never known the scorching Sahara summer, the insanely cold Antarctic winter storms, the 6 month-long Far North nights, or the floods of a destructive hurricane. So, up to this day, I just enjoy friendly Nature, whatever the season really. Just spare me the crowds of tourists!
Beauties in bikinis excepted, goes without saying.
The bikinis are optional. :-)))
amazing to think one has the technology today to capture a visual of a streamlet (a droplet streaming?) of rain falling...
ReplyDeletei keep thinking of how you saw the wolf in the bubbles in your sink after you did your dna activation, in which you discovered the wolf was your power animal...such a tiny little wolf bubble...
and this is such a tiny little rain droplet...
...so it's all in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?
...like a poet, an artist has to have the eye to see it...
..something another would easily miss...
brilliant!
warmly,
dayu
Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, though, I only saw the drops on the lamp post after the fact. It was getting dark very rapidly, so I was working very fast, and I was really photographing the tree with the red house behind it. (The dusk light was very red at the point.) It was only the last image I took that I thought to focus on the post instead of the tree, and I finally judged that to be the superior image.
And I was thinking that was a bare trunk of a tree, the texture is very much that way, and the weld/webbing on the collar made me think that was a natural ring, much like on bamboo.
ReplyDeleteSo right to focus on the foreground, the other looks like you were after the leaves and the pole was just in the way, and you lost track of it when composing the image. Also with the leaves in focus the building are too distracting.
As for Seasons. We actually got rain today (last night) so three cheers. We only get two seasons here, green and brown. A week of this rain will launch the green season, a welcome relief from the parched summer. However living in an urban area, all this really means is that 1 in 10 trees will change colour, and a few will fall down, and the monotonous clear blue sky will be broken by cloud. Fall here is moist and fresh, spring, or late green, is very wet, worse in El Niño years. So I'm expecting damp until December, then wet until May, then parched after that.
It is what it is, but from an air-conditioned windowless office it is always 70F with fluorescent skies.