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The art of rain
An entire day of torrential rain ruins a photographer’s day out. This is the time to stay indoors and try to be creative with what you have. Water – plenty of it – running off balconies, roof windows and refracting the colours behind it. Usual everyday surroundings take on a different air, and the camera finds abstraction.
When the time comes to edit your shots, you can splash a little more colour there and create new landscapes. Here are the fruits of my rainy day play…
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After the deluge
The winter in London has been nothing but wet. It’s been unrelenting downpours and stormy gusts to render umbrellas practically useless.
I visited my local park recently, camera in hand and with a specific goal in mind. But the heavens opened and I returned home to protect my gear from the wet.
I went back to be greeted with another downpour, but this time I was prepared. The shower passed and I witnessed the magic of surfaces and plants dappled with droplets.
The rain isn’t all doom and gloom. It produces a lot of beauty and inspiration for the lens.
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And here’s a happy post-script to an afternoon drenched in a west London park. A resurgent sun produced this effect, which can only warm the soul.
Droplets
It’s a great pleasure of life when an insignificant, mundane detail manages to catch your eye. And if it’s compelling enough to be captured on camera, the joy and satisfaction is multiplied.
These shots are a case in point. The sunlight filtering through the bathroom blind catches a scattering of water droplets on the edge of the bath, which have rested there since the morning shower.
The white photograph is more subtle and shows a hint of white shower curtain in the background. With a cool blue filter, another shot brings the drops to the foreground, and makes them stand out.
The smaller details in life – and taking photographs of them – can possess value beyond their worth.
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Beautiful blue
An excuse to bring a splash of colour to mikeosbornphoto. And as they say, blue is the colour, especially the brilliant tones of a swimming pool complete with the myriad of reflections and layers created by the slender bridge crossing this waterhole in Mauritius.
This is not a shot that can be converted to monochrome – the loss of blue would rip the joy and relaxation from gazing at the water. It’s brighter than the blue of the River Thames, peppered with bright blue sails, while the blue of the Pacific Ocean at Byron Bay in Australia is more natural and invigorating.
Does blue do it for you?…
