Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual
17th March 2012
UNUSUAL, Maybe, Maybe Not!
You Tell Me..Please!
I am not too happy about this one, so will look to do another later. I do have a couple of ideas. But I hope you all like it though.
The more I do the more I learn…
Last summer I had this idea of photographing water drops, this idea came from a television program. So one sunny day I spent hours clicking away, deleting away. (Thanks a lot for digital) Some I really like, here are a few of my favorites. Some have edited. I do intend to try and do some more water based projects. But I find it difficult, but never give up eh!
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I love the red one. That’s fantastic! I also think the photographer’s pretty unusual.
Why thank you so much trish, All my life I have been told I am a strange one…lol
sorry my reply was not in your reply box..
I hope you didn’t think I meant strange. I meant different – I like the ideas you come up with for the photo challenges – they’re different from the rest of the pack. My son had a photography project once where he filled a balloon with water and held it in one hand and his camera in the other while I pricked the balloon with a pin. He got great photos of water droplets shooting in all directions. Imagine if he had filled it with that red liquid!
No, I am only joking,although I have been told I am different in many ways,but do appreciate your comments, well actually I love ‘em. The red liquid is purely water with red food coloring. I experimented with colour against the daylight. That balloon ideas sounds good, might try that when the sun start shining. Thank you so much for your visit and comments and please call back love the little chats.. thanks..
Why thank you so much trish, All my life I have been told I am a strange one…lol
Wow, this is not an easy quick shot…
Terribly difficult to know when to press the shutter. Did you pray a lot for the camera to fire on the spot?
Well Madman, I was on the edge of my patience at times, I tried the multiple shot, but the quality was not so good. So yes it was wait, watch, (go cross eyed) and press, very quickly..Thank you so much…
I’m finding this one difficult, and it’s making me wacky because I don’t want to miss a week. Novice anxiety. I think the shots are great. I enjoy looking at your photos. If you have more ‘unusual’, bring it on. I’ll be back…
Gemma I thank you again for your words and visit, and please do come back, I have another idea I might use..:)
This is such a cool post Gerry. You are very imaginative to take a common item, we all take for granted, and a put a spin on it. I love the way you posted the drop as it was dripping. I especially liked the drop when it’d broken away from the main stream to leave a single round droplet below the drip (if that makes sense). You done good!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I do understand, it makes sense. It took me ages and my patience was getting thin..I was not even sure about posting this..;)
Wow! I think it’s stunning! Great shots Gerry!
Thank you Sonel for your kind words and visit again..appreciate it so much..;)
Nice photos!! I love drops of water or dew or rain.
Thank you so much, so do I. Hard to photograph though..;)
wow – the timing on these is great! not easy to do – but your sequencing is a nice flow, if you will pardon the pun.
thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much, no it was not easy but it was fun.love to hear your thoughts.
I love it. I think it is unusual that the water turned red in one of the photos
Thanks a lot, I do have a sequence of red ones as well, but preferred the clear ones,, was not sure on this post at all, but looks i might be wrong..
You captured the drop of water so well! I like it
Thank you Evilnymph,,glad you like it…;)
Cobbie … it looks like that was a difficult undertaking. You did a fine job of it.
Perhaps, the water drop isn’t unusual but capturing at that lcose range and the unique
thought process is unusual to me.
Toodles,
Isadora
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It did take awhile and tested my patience, but saw it through. thank you again Isadora for your support ..;)
Watching it is addictive!
It would make a nice subtle message for a girl to send to a boy as an indication of what she thinks of him …
He would have to be clever enough to get the message hehe! not me I’m thick a bit of a drip,,,,,,,lol
time to stand and stare – well spent
Dont stare too long you go cross eyed lol
thank you elspethc for your visit and comment..
Oh wow! Teach us how to do that too.
Thank you greatly Rommel, for your comment. A lot of patience. but can try to explain if you wanted.
I think the shots are great – I don’t think I would have the patience!
Well I surprised myself, so you never know… Thank you ‘gingerbreadcafe’ for visit and comment..
Wow! What a great series you have so patiently and beautifully captured! Love it!!
Thank you Andrea for your wonderful words and I really appreciate them and enjoy the connections with every one. thank you
This is an unusual perspective of an ordinary subject
Definitely a shot that requires a lot of patience!
I did struggle a little at the time. thank you for visit and comment..
They are all lovely! Love them!
Thank you Madhu, appreciate your visit and comment, ans especially your liking of my post.
This is fantastic, Gerry! What patience! You have done a superb job. Do some more.
Yes Sandra it did take a lot of patience for me, have got some more red water ones..Thank you so much..
the droplet looks really nice!
Thank you so much Joshi for your visit and words…;)
Awesome photography!
Very nice entry!
Thank you and that is very of you to say so, cannot say how much I appreciate your words..;)
Fantastic, Gerry. Great capture of the water droplets.
It was patience, which I nearly ran out of. Thank you for your words and visit.
I like both the idea and the execution of it
Thank you very much for visit and comments appreciate it very much..;)
awesome! I like to capture water drops. But the results are not as good as you. Need to learn and try more
Thank you idha2908 for your lovely words and especially for visiting..pop back if you dare.
Photographing water droplets certainly require a lot of patience, and i mean A LOT, but you did very well. I did a similar series a while back and it certainly tested my patience.
Thank you Gracie for your kind words and especially your visit. Did you post your results, I would like to see. Patience was certainly tested. but it was also fun..;)
Yes I did
Please feel free to check my archives, under Macro.
Will do thanks very much…
Greetings Gerry!
In appreciation of all of your visits and the comments you leave when you stop by, I am bestowing you with “The Top Recent Commenter Award”. Please feel free, when time allows, to drop by and nab your prize!
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I appreciate greatly your nomination and of course will pop over when I have caught up and grab my prize. I will think of an acceptance speech…Watch out ear drums…
Of course an acceptance speech is always welcomed, Gerry, but by no means necessary. I know how that time factor works, and hope the people (yourself included with my 777 award) will understand that it may be a few days before I get back to re-posting the awards not yet shown on my site. There just aren’t enough hours in the day it seems.
Great! Catching a drop is quite a task. The timing and precision involved is much. Nice shot, I love it. It’s actually unusual to see a drop this clearly!
Thanks Teecee for your wonderful words, My timing more luck and patience. thanks so much again.
Gerry, these are so good! The first three have me mesmerised, they are such beautiful sweet drops!
Thanks a lot Patti for stopping by and liking and especially commenting. I do get overwhelmed with all of these wonderful comments. I really do not expect it.. thanks so much.
I like this a lot, and yes, it’s definitely unusual, I think you hit the prompt right between the eyes. I enjoyed watching the progress oif the single drop, and the one photo where the drop is perfectly round is amazing. Great job on these!
Thank you Judee your comment is very much appreciated. But I am so glad that you liked it enough to comment.. pop back please.
Interesting pictures. If I have to pick a favorite it’d be the one with the dolphin cap and the drop has just separated from the little line of water.
Thank you for your visit and words and I would agree with you..;)
It’s an unusual amout of effort
But seriously, you have to experiment to get the results you want. Now you have to take that experiment forwards to catch the other end of the process – when the drop hits the water at the bottom!
I actually did try, but no matter how i set it up the picture was never much good. But as you say I will give it another try on a nice sunny day. thank you for you visit and comment..
Gerry, Your new post (Unusual no. 2) isn’t working. Could you try again?
I do not know what is happening I have not posted a number 2 yet, but will check what is happening.. thank you for your visit and comment..
Those are some cool water drops! They are hard to capture but are worth the effort. I’d love to see more attempts
Thank you so much will be posting later, it seems there is a call for some more. thank you so much..watch this space……as they say
Gerry, I especially like the red one. Good idea! I might try it some day too. I can’t await your second entry, which is not working for me either.
Thank you Cassie for your lovely words and visit, I havent posted a second one yet, but will do later today… I do not know what is happening.
What a great idea… This one looks fine.
Thank you for your visit and comments…appreciated..
It look slike there is a whale in the water droplet…
It is a dolphin, being shrunk that small does distort the shape a little. Thank you for visiting and comment…;)
Good – I am not hallucinating
that’s the spirit! never give up and you’ll definitely find yourself a prize-winner! great job, gerry!
Thank you LivE, much appreciate your support and faith..pop back at will please.;)
Beautiful shots, Gerry!
Thank you Nelson much appreciate your visit and comments..;)
Those water drops are awesome. Stunning photos my friend. Cool post.
Thank you very much for your kind words, I am becoming a little overwhelmed with all this..thank you ;;)
Hey, Gerry, how did you get these pictures to run as a slideshow? Gilly Gee and I talked about it, and she told me what she did. I went to the tutorial and followed all the instructions — I think. The last thing they said to do was to click “Insert Slideshow.” All my pictures are on the post, one underneath the other, but they are not in a screen where they move from one to the other. On the tutorial, what they call a “slideshow” does what your pictures do and what Gilly’s do. Would you tell me what steps you took so I can figure out what I might be missing? Thanks a lot.
Sandra
GOOD NEWS! You don’t have to go to all that trouble now. I figured out what I needed to do. It was something a little different from what they said. Maybe it’s just that way on some of the themes. But no matter — it’s working. Thanks anyway.
Glad that you managed ok. If any advice wanted I would say, use the individual up loader, this helps if you want to put pictures in a certain order. It took me ages to get ‘THANKYOU’ to run in order. Any way Sandra well done…sorry was not about at your time of need..;)
Just read your request, sorry I missed it, 05.30 my time it came through. glad you worked it out ok, my other comment added a little tip..;) any way well done
Way back they called Picasso strange, different and weird! you my friend are very good and wonderfully unique!
Thanks also for visiting my site!
Thank you for your kind words and visiting your site was truly enjoyable and will return..I am honoured, and thank you…
Good timing on the drip.
Thanks for your comment and visit, yes the timing took a lot of patience to get it. Still not quite what i wanted but my patience had got the better of me..;)
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Why thank you very much for this Rommel do so appreciate your support and responses.. thank you again, always welcome…:)