I agree, it might seem a somewhat melancholic image but there was a quite different idea in my mind when I took the photo.
I started with water - we had too little last summer and August was the wettest for many years. My sister recorded about double the average rainfall for August on her farm up north, while the total for the year is 84% of average. It is the essential for life.
To have the future life of a tree cradled in a drop of water was just too good an image to waste.
Oh, and to fill in the rest of the story, the presented image is about 25% of the total image taken. It was taken with the intention that it would be cropped, and really pushed the limits of the Lumix (hand-held). I had about 2 minutes between drips; I had to maximise its size to get the tree image in there; it was drizzling rain and so protecting the camera became a problem as well; the DOF was about 5mm...
A superb photo with a melancholy beauty. I love it
ReplyDeleteThere's something haunting about this shot. Is that a drop of water at the tip?
ReplyDeleteOh my, this picture is absolutely perfect for black and white. I just love the tiny image of the trees in the water droplet. Superb.
ReplyDeleteLovely and sad....
ReplyDeletehttp://mudpuddle.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/photohunt-natural/
Thanks for the kind comments.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it might seem a somewhat melancholic image but there was a quite different idea in my mind when I took the photo.
I started with water - we had too little last summer and August was the wettest for many years. My sister recorded about double the average rainfall for August on her farm up north, while the total for the year is 84% of average. It is the essential for life.
To have the future life of a tree cradled in a drop of water was just too good an image to waste.
Oh, and to fill in the rest of the story, the presented image is about 25% of the total image taken. It was taken with the intention that it would be cropped, and really pushed the limits of the Lumix (hand-held). I had about 2 minutes between drips; I had to maximise its size to get the tree image in there; it was drizzling rain and so protecting the camera became a problem as well; the DOF was about 5mm...