Uploads from The Bacher Family, tagged droplet, with geodata

Bejeweled

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:05:20 -0800

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I stopped at a viewpoint in Mount Rainier National Park to take pictures of the mountain, and got captivated instead by the raindrops nestled like little jewels in each circlet of leaflets on the lupines by the trail. Lupines do this intentionally -- or, to put it less anthropomorphically, they have evolved to capture these drops of water because it's to their advantage to make use of every bit of moisture they can, growing, as they often do, in poor volcanic soil. Each leaf is covered with tiny hairs that capture water from rain and fog, and every leaflet is folded into a tiny furrow that channels the water down to the stem of the plant. A breath of wind, a slight touch by a passing deer, and the life-giving water slides down the stem of the plant to its roots.

This image is featured on my photo blog, blog.thelightisall.com, on February 26, 2013. (IMG_8918_1)

Suspension

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:10:12 -0700

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The slow drip of Spring II

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:52 -0700

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This time of year, even as the snow falls, the sun comes out between the clouds and sparkles on a drop of water dripping from last night's accumulation on a blade of dry grass. Capturing it all was a fun challenge that required a lot of patience, waiting for just the right combination of light and focus at the precise moment when the drop of water was full but hadn't yet dripped off the end of the leaf. Once it had, it was another couple of minutes before the drop formed again and I could make another attempt. I even caught the drip in the middle of falling, twice, though the high shutter speed required to catch it made such a wide aperture necessary that it was difficult to keep all the elements of the photo in focus. In the end, this is one of my favorites of the set, with that transcendant light shining through the translucent leaf and refracting through the drop of water at its tip.

This image is featured on my photo blog, thelightisall.blogspot.com. (IMG_10062_1)

The slow drip of Spring I

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:19 -0700

The Bacher Family posted a photo:

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This time of year, even as the snow falls, the sun comes out between the clouds and sparkles on a drop of water dripping from last night's accumulation on a blade of dry grass. Capturing it all was a fun challenge that required a lot of patience, waiting for just the right combination of light and focus at the precise moment when the drop of water was full but hadn't yet dripped off the end of the leaf. Once it had, it was another couple of minutes before the drop formed again and I could make another attempt. I even caught the drip in the middle of falling, twice, though the high shutter speed required to catch it made such a wide aperture necessary that it was difficult to keep all the elements of the photo in focus. In the end, this is one of my favorites of the set, with that transcendant light shining through the translucent leaf and refracting through the drop of water at its tip.

This image is featured on my photo blog, thelightisall.blogspot.com. (IMG_10058_1)

The world in a drop of water

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:06:06 -0700

The Bacher Family posted a photo:

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This time of year, I always take my camera with me when I go on walks near my office in Mount Rainier National Park. This is why. On my way past the park's Community Building, I noticed these drops of water clinging to the bottom of a wayside sign. Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, if Mount Rainier were visible through the water drops! And sure enough... it is! I spent ten minutes experimenting with various shutter speeds, f-stops, and ISO ratings, each time snapping several photos to be sure I got the close focus right without too much camera shake. This was one of the last shots I took, a testiment to the value of being persistent and thorough when documenting something as transitory as a drop of water. By the time I went by the same spot this afternoon, these little capsules of light, each with its own little world perfectly captured within, were long gone.

This image is featured on my photo blog, thelightisall.blogspot.com, on October 18, 2011.

Winner's Circle contest #893: Pure. Our Daily Topic: Water (February 6, 2012).

Raindrops on lupine

nobody@flickr.com (The Bacher Family) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:02:48 -0800

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I love the detail I was able to capture in this image of a lupine along the Glacier Basin Trail in Mount Rainier National Park. (IMG_2649_bw_2)

Winner's Circle contest #824: Water