27. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

This is frozen water on a window photographed against the morning sun. This is a scan from a slide. I photographed this image as a teenager with my first SLR, a Minolta XE5. By the way, I still have the camera and I still use the lenses with a connector to my modern cameras. I believe I used the 50mm Minolta 1.4 prime lens to create this picture.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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26. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

This morning I went back to Lake Yosemite (a few miles outside Merced, CA) to look for some water images. I photographed the water in front of the spillway.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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25. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

For the last couple of days I observed the water drops on my car. This morning I saw how the sun created all kinds of interesting reflections on my tail light. Normally I don’t like to photograph in direct sun light but sometimes you see a subject that exits you and you got to photograph it.

By the way, the yellow color in the image is from my turn signal. Enjoy, keep on discovering great image and photograph them.

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24. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

Yesterday I “discovered” my old hose and decided to use it for my water project. I wanted some reflection in the water and decided to use a flower which I also integrated into the background. I shot several images and decided to use this one. Take a close look at the white - green - orange combination in the water.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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23. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

This week I want to continue our “water” exercise.

we had finally the first winter rain in the Central California Valley. This opened up some great opportunities for photographing water. I found this water puddle on a wooden picnic table. I wandered around the table looking at the light reflection and took several shots. This one I liked the best.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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20. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

Water is highly reflective. I photographed the reflection of the sun in the later afternoon. The plants in the water added an interesting pattern to the image.

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19. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

It was so dark that the autofocus did not work anymore. I had to estimate the distance and adjust the lens manually. Normally I try to shoot flowing water at around 1 second exposure time if I want to create this very soft flowing effect. In this image the exposure time was 30 seconds at f5.6 and ISO 800. Of course I used a tripod in this image.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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18. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

I photographed these incoming waves from the top of a balcony at the San Francisco Cliffhouse.  I wanted to catch the dynamic of the waves and their fascinating energy.

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17. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

I observed the birds taking a bath in this fountain. So I mounted my camera and 100-400mm lens on a tripod and waited. I shot several images. This is the one I liked.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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16. January 2012 by Friedhelm.

I challenge you to photograph water for the next two weeks. Water is all around us and we need water to survive. Currently there is a drought in California and whenever we miss something important like water, we realize how important it really is.

We had this exercise already in October of 2010. If you did it then then photograph it again and see that you come up with different images. Don’t forget to enjoy you photography!

I photographed this small water fountain in front of a store in Carmel, CA. I love the colors in this image!

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