Afternoon diamonds

rain diamondsA sudden rain shower with the sun shining from behind and scattering light through the fat water drops hanging from the railing. I’d shot a dozen frames or so, and had taken the card out to transfer the images to a hard-drive when 2 Sunbirds came to suck up water droplets from the foliage… the spare cards were in a case in the other room and by the time I got the card out of the reader and back into the camera the birds were gone. Anyway, I did get the water diamonds.

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3 Responses to “Afternoon diamonds”

  1. miriam says:

    gorgeous muted colors could feel the droplets!!

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