Posted on December 1, 2024
This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, set by Sophia at Photographias, asks us to feature the four classical elements: air, earth, fire and water, but with metal as an addition.
Ideally, a single image would include all five (and so probably qualify for a notional bonus point. Unfortunately, I could find nothing in my library that would achieve that quintuple whammy, but I managed to include the full set in just two images.
Air and fire are accounted for by this shot taken at a firework display celebrating the United Arab Enirates’ National Day (which, coincidentally, comes round again this week).

As for the rest, here’s some dew (water) on a spider’s web woven on the back of a metal (sic) chair in our back garden (earth).

Lens-Artists Challenge: Five Elements
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Air, Cobweb, Dew, Earth, Fire, Fireworks, Lens-Artists, Metal, The Elements, Water, water drops
Posted on September 2, 2021
A familiar subject and one I’ve ‘done’ a couple of times before.
This image is different to the others, but as I’ve said before, don’t expect whiskers on kittens any time soon.

Posted on July 28, 2021
Not that I’ve ever given the matter much thought, but I was genuinely surprised to see that the cucumber plants in our serre were flowering.
Although since they’re planted next to the courgettes, which even I know have flowers, I really ought to have realised.
To be honest, I was just attracted by the water drops.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Yellow
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Cucumber, Flowers, water drops, Yellow
Posted on May 16, 2018
With an exposure of only 1/2000 of a second, this detail of a water feature in Sydney hardly looks liquid at all.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Liquid
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Liquid, Sydney, Water, water drops, Water feature, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on May 3, 2017
This unfolding tulip was in a floral display in the town of Confolens that I happened on just after it had rained. As we’re not looking for bokeh this time, I’ve eliminated any background distractions during the editing process.
(I posted a black & white image of the next tulip along as a contribution to Cee’s current Black & White Challenge.)

Nikon D800 with Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/1000 at ƒ2.8 ISO 100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments: Week 37 – Water
Category: Macro Tagged: Flowers, Macro, Macro Moments, Raindrops, Tulip, Water, water drops