Drops In a Canna

This is a very peculiar picture. This drop of water is sitting in the petals of a flower called a Canna, or as some call it, a Canna Lillie. I love the effect of having the air bubbles inside the droplet. I have edited this photo, because there was a little white blur at the left edge of the picture, and it kind of detracted from the image. I used a program on Linux called Tuxpaint, and the program Picasa, to edit it. Something I don't like about this picture is that the red blur right at the front (the front, meaning the part of the picture closest to the screen) that goes almost halfway up the image, that blur just hits the edge of the droplet and it doesn't look good. But otherwise, I quite like this picture.

The Seeing Droplet

This is a picture that I took recently. I really like the magnification effect that the water droplet has on the leaf. On the down side the drop of water is not quite round, and also the focus on the bottom third and the top third of the picture isn't very good. If the biggest droplet was rounder and the focus was better overall, the picture would be better. But otherwise I very much like this picture.

A Mellow Yellow

I love this picture. The focus is almost perfect, and the flower has such a brilliant, warm, yellow hue. The only thing that's bad is those dead spots on the petal pointing towards you, and that the focus on that petal is bad. Also it would have looked better if the other 3 petals weren't folded at the sides that way. And another thing is that the cracked leaf to the right detracts from the image a bit. But otherwise, I think it's a very nice picture.

Clouds From Above

I took this picture from, as you can guess, an aeroplane. I would have liked this picture better if the if there were distinct clouds in the far distance. But I do like this picture. It looks kind of like a sea of mist with islands of clouds.

Drops After Rain

I did not get this picture to this stage using only a camera. I've edited it, using picasa, I've put a shadow on it, which makes it much more defined and, of course, darker.

Four in A Row

I took this picture very recently, using super macro. If you observe carefully you may notice the reflection of a palm tree in the droplet that is second from left. I went out side one day to take some photos, and I saw lots of water droplets on the leaves and flowers, so I let fly, I took about 50 pictures of water droplets. Water droplets are often very difficult to get a good picture of, because when you're taking a picture of a water droplet that's on a leaf, it's very hard not to shake the leaf or the camera or both. You don't want to shake the camera because then the focus will be bad, and you don't want shake the leaf because then you will upset the water droplet or make the picture out of focus. You can see in this photo that although the 2 center water droplets are perfectly defined, while the 2 outside ones are a bit blurred. I like the effect that the blur has on the water droplet at the far right, but the picture would have looked better if the droplet at the far left was more defined.

A Study In Scarlet

This is a picture of a Heron, and what I think is a Scarlet Ibis. I had never heard of the Scarlet Ibis until I saw this one. I really like this picture, partly because my favorite colour is red, but also because the subjects in the picture contrast with one another very strangely, and that contrast is added to by the forest green leaves to the right and the murky water in the background, actually, not so much the water. I didn't get this picture just anywhere, it was as you might have guessed, at a bird park.

A Contrast In Itself

This picture is a shot of a bougainvillea, a common plant, using the super macro setting. I really like how brilliantly the white contrasts with pink. Flowers are my favorite photography subject. I find that natural creation is much more satisfying to photograph than man made stuff is.

An Uncertain Illusion

What I love about this picture is that you can't tell how big the flower is. Even I can't remember how big it is. It could be 3 cm across, or it could be 1/2 cm across, it has a bit of an illusion to it. And of course everything in the back round is to foggy to compare to. What I find annoying about a lot of my pictures is that I don't remember taking them, I don't even know where I took this photo, although I think it was at the back of my house, because this picture was taken 2 or 3 years ago. I would have liked to get the whole flower and have overall better focus.

In The Light

I took this picture in Sidney, Australia, in the city center. Sidney is a great place for photography. It has all the elements needed for pictures of buildings, scenery, and close up shots. Sidney has a lot of old fashioned looking buildings, like this one, it's a beautiful city. I took this shot just in passing, walking through Sidney, saw the perfect angle of the sun, and snapped the shot. The brilliant thing about this photo is that even though the light is so bright, it doesn't make everything else too bright, and it gives the leaves a brilliant green hue. I think this is my best picture so far.