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Water.H2O.
Simply rain.
One of the most unique natural substances we know.
It has recording capabilities with even greater special properties than most realize (and others wish to ignore.)
It is vital to nearly all life on Earth.
LOL! A single drop can be an entire world of it's own.
As a sign of my fondness for science fiction, I can't look closely at raindrops without hearing H. G. Wells words...
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. "
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I wish I had a camera that could take pictures that well. Beautiful picture, and it's left me with some interesting things to think about.
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Thank you.
LOL! You already have the most valuable tool needed.
I agree that having a good camera can result in better pictures, but it's no guarantee. A $5000 camera is as useful as a pencil & paper if the person has no connection or "eye" for the subject.
I say this so often, I should use it as a tagline.
Many many people have heard the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and think it infers it's a personal OPINION as to whether an object has beauty or not.
To me, this is only a superficial understanding created by our conditioned egos.
If I see beauty in a flower, or a raindrop, or a bug, and I leave, does my departure somehow drain that quality from them so that you stepping into my very footprints could not perceive it?
LOL! No, of course not.
Beauty simply IS...
It may sound all touchy-feely new age, but IMHO it's an individuals privilege (not opinion) to be able to recognize & appreciate it.
For we artists, a segment of society who claim greatest familiarity with it, I would say it is our duty and responsibility to strive to find the beauty (or at least some level of appreciation) in all we behold.
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I understand exactly ^^ I think I have an eye for beauty, nature is beautiful to me. Other things are too, I just can't see them as well... And by a better camera I only meant many times I see something absolutely beautiful, but my camera can not capture the moment in all of its beauty. If I tried to take a picture of a raindrop, it would not look like that
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Yes, these type of images do require a certain level of specialty of optics. (This was at about 3:1.)
That's the reason I do macro, there is so much that we miss due to the limits of our vision.
We think of most insects body & wings as "smooth", but if you check out this carpenter bee, it's body & head are dimpled like a golf ball [link] and their wings have rows of dull hook-like bumps [link]
LOL! This Weevil [link] looks like it's made outta a trio of hairy raisins stuck together.
I didn't capture them in that shot, but the HGW quote was brought to mind because I could see some tiny objects moving around within that drop.
Finding out exactly what they were would require a true microscope.
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Oh wow... Whatever kind of camera you have, I want it xD
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With DSLRs, the image is dictated by the limits of the lens, more than the camera.
I have a couple of lenses that can focus on things VERY small. My Canon MPe-65 can image from 1:1 to 5:1 (life size to 5 times bigger).
I also have other equipment that I use to increase the magnification.
Extention tubes go inbetween the camera & lense to increase a lens overall length. This alters the lens focal abilities from being able to see far to making small things bigger.
Basically, Extention tubes or their soft-sided expandible cousins, the "Bellows", can let normal fixed length or even zoom lenses act like a macro lens.
LOL! If ya have any questions, just ask.
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