Water & Light CRCD 1-3 Natural patterns of reflection on the surface of very fast-flowing water in the Cerne River at Charlton Down in Dorset, 8th March 2021. To the casual glance, the river appears to be sparkling in the sunlight, but a close examination reveals these sparkles are actually made up of intricate and continually changing patterns of reflected blue sky, white clouds and dark over-hanging vegetation.
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Stunning Photographs! the water mimicking something like a metallic plastic balloon deflated and caught in a breeze somewhere.
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Love these colors. I know from experience how hard it can be to get the right shutter speed to catch a pattern in fast-moving water. You’ve done an excellent job here. So you were able to get out last week; hooray!
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Hello Jessica…Thank you so very much for your beautiful photographs. I have been following you for a few months now and your work never ceases to raise my spirits and set me right again. I am a painter working from my studio in Milborne Port near Sherborne.
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Wow, love these. How fast are you shooting these, typically? I would guess around 1/2000 or something like that?
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Thank you, Dave.
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Thank you, Graeme. They are surprisingly varied patterns depending on the light and the speed of the water – but not always visible to the naked eye.
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Thank you, Linda. These areas of water surface are sometimes difficult to spot and more difficult to photograph. I have to throw most of the pictures away, and have rarely captured a really clear photograph of them
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Thank you, Annie. I am pleased that my photographs raise your spirits because that is what they do for me. Connecting with nature can be so therapeutic at any time but especially during this past year of lockdowns.
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Thank you, John. In this series of shots the speeds vary from 1:320 to 1:500. Maybe they lack resolution because I have not taken pictures at a higher speed – but on the other hand the patterns might not look the same at all at that sort of speed.
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Hm…..I have tried to paint things like this and gone a bit mad with the effort. In cases like these I think that the camera is definitely the best tool to use.
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Thank you, Angela. I had also toyed with the idea of drawing or painting these but felt daunted at the enormity of the task.
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