The almost-setting sun was behind this flower [can anyone ID this flower?] and made a kind of ‘halo’ of the spiky stamens. The background was too bright, I was shooting into the sun light, so if I exposed correctly for the background I lost all detail in the flower. Using a pair of warmed-up [TLA1 gel [...]
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Afternoon diamonds
Posted in rain on Mar 27th, 2008
A 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 [...]