Rain is pendulous. It hangs like a crystal globe off of any given surface – spider webs, moss, a blade of grass, horse hair. I love venturing out after a rain and crouching low to the ground, my nose practically touching my subject – flower petals, leaves, the thin capsules of moss – as the smell of petrichor fills my lungs.
As many of you know from my previous posts (like Raindrops, After the Rain, Petrichor & Pluviophiles, etc.), rain is something that never stops inspiring – and being featured in – my photography.
Lately we’ve been caught in a cycle of snow and melt, snow and melt, spinning continuously in a pattern filled with days that either feel like spring or winter. As I venture out with camera in hand, I can’t get enough of the melting beauty all around me – silver drops on a leaf, rain caught in stringy cobwebs, spheres of reflection dropped perfectly on moss leaves.
All of this to say, here’s another blog post on rain – pendulous rain, at that.
I also want to add a humpback-whale-sized shout-out to Debbie, from whom I was gifted her beautiful Canon camera. Thank you so much again, Debbie, for both lending and gifting your camera to me. I will treasure it for many years. <3
Beautiful photos, Hazel. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, Tim!
Awesome photos. Interesting how water forms in globes while crystals form, from water, in linear shapes. In the last photo, I thought at first you placed a colored pencil in the scene for scale.
Thanks Gramps! I didn’t actually notice the “coloured pencil” in the last photo until you pointed it out. But, alas, it is a pine needle – although that also gives a sense of scale, too.
As always, your craft brightens my day
Thank you!
Much appreciated, Debbie <3
As always, I am delighted and inspired by your photos Hazel…
<3 Thanks, Do.