Rain in MtLawleyShire

It’s the last day of Winter, by the calendar at least, as Spring has been here for a couple of weeks or more.  But it is a suitably wintry day with rain and wind and gloom, though at the moment it’s sunny.

But when it rains, I love to go out with the camera and see what I can catch.  It was too windy to be really successful, but I caught a few amidst the rain and gloom.  I love it when I actually get the rain:

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amidst the wind, there were moments of stillness where I caught raindrops on jasmine leaves:

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on hanging remains of spider plant fronds:

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on leaves of dead spider plant fronds and the ends of jasmine twigs:

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on the loops limbs of jasmine branches:

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on the thin fronds of tiger trees:

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on the petals of a nasturtium and amongst clumps of unbowed freesia:

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& then the sun came out:

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Mtlawleyshire and raindrops

My canon lens does wonderful macros.  I have been playing with raindrops – mostly in the garden.  It requires such precise conditions: sunshine at a precise time (11 ish in the morning) so it reaches my courtyard just after rain:

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A raindrop on a jasmine stem refracting house and cloudy sky & catching a little light while refracting the garden

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the best of the drops on jasmine: light exploding around refracted garden:

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raindrops on parsley flowers:

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on nasturtium leaves:

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a parsley leaf bejewelled and on a needle of a native hibiscus:

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grass:

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one drop on a native violet and tiny drops caught in a bud of lavender:

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and outside the confines of my courtyard: a beautiful rose-bud with extra beauty, and on the buds of a Geraldton Wax

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There won’t be many more of these – we are having a dry warm end to winter and a dry warm early Spring.