At this time of year the days are almost at their shortest and the world can seem gloomy and dull. Nightjar has found some light, though, and she’s used it to create magic.
Still playing around with light! For me December isn’t just Christmas lights, nature can put on quite a show too and there is nothing like getting up early on a dewy December morning to fully appreciate all the magic of December light. The last photo of the ruins and olive tree is just to illustrate how lush the fields look right now, it’s not a morning shot but I liked the light in that one as well. We don’t get snow here, so that is exactly what my concept of winter is like: green.
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This post is a follow-up to Nightjar’s previous posts,
Thanks Nightjar for helping us find some beauty in the drab days of winter. I love each and every photo and cannot possibly pick a favourite. I am reminded of Caine, who introduced me to the power of water plus light. I know she would have loved these photos too.
Amazing. Simply amazing. That rose…. Love it.
You have roses?! Wow, you are so lucky! But the most amazing to me, that made me gasp in awe, is the dewdrop on top of the blade of grass. I love that photo, it’s so beautiful!
These are beautiful beyond words. I gasped with the first, and never really caught my breath.
Thank you all! Mostly this series started as the result of wanting to play with the extension tubes I got myself in October, and trying to figure out what I can do with them. Of course it’s also a way of distracting myself from the horrible year that was 2018, and something tells me 2019 will still require such distractions, so this is probably not the last of the “Light” series.
voyager,
Thank you. She was the one who introduced me to it too. I learned so much from Caine, and I still miss her so much. Still hurts and being able to share these photos with you all helps immensely somehow.
kestel
Yes, and “I have roses?!” was pretty much my reaction when I saw the buds. Some rose plants (not all) are a little confused, I think, and are blooming again after blooming during spring and losing their foliage in late summer. I hope this weird cycle doesn’t cause the plants harm in the long run.
It all looks lush and sensual. While the snow we got now is an improvement* over the darkness last week, this is so nice to see.
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* = My right butt disagrees with me a bit. No real injuries from the fall, though.
The single grass stem with the one drop on the right and lots of smaller drops on the left and the rose both made me gasp too, and that’s after the first one made me want to comment on how good it was. Beautiful photos rq, thank you for sharing them and distracting us from the slug slime- filled pit we are in.
Ooof I am so sorry Nightjar, I don’t know why I attributed them to rq, I obviously meant to address that comment to you.
I cannot even tell what is my favourite. And I love your bokeh. I know, for many those clear geometrical shapes are considered a “bad” bokeh, but that#s entirely a matter of taste in my opinion.
Hmmm, green is a nice colour to have. We’re at the muddy brown stage of the year and it will be a while before we get back to anything else.
Ice Swimmer
I can confirm that snow is rather slippery, but it also cushions your fall.
Jazzlet
:D I once posted something similar… but similar in subject only, Nightjar’s execution is so much better.
Jazzlet,
I wonder if you are referring to the weather or political conditions, but either way I’m glad to be of help. :)
Giliell
Thanks! This lens gives a nice round bokeh at wider apertures, but these were all shot at f/8 and you can definitely count the blades, all 7 of them. :D Wider than that and I can’t get anything in focus at this scale, so it’s a compromise. But I agree with you, it’s a matter of taste and I don’t dislike those heptagons.