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Christmas greetings
Hey, it’s that time of the year again. The time where we celebrate with friends and family and reflect on our photographic achievements over the last 12 months. Reflect is such a good word, as this image is of some Christmas lights reflected in a water feature in Bristol. I wandered round Millennium Square yesterday evening before going to a performance of Handel’s Messiah at St George’s Hall. I had my trusty Panasonic TZ-100 compact camera with me, and it was perfect for unobtrusively capturing the colours and falling water. A friend gave us us a home-made Christmas decoration. It was made from an old CD, and it had holographic…
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“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
OK, so it’s now winter rather than Keats’ autumn, but the mists thing is still true. Tied in with mists there are other sorts of wetness, such as rain and condensation, and even melted frost. Yes, I know this is a tenous link for some water droplet images, but bear with me! It rained a week or so ago, and one sunny morning some lingering rain droplets were sat on a twig of one of our Japanese maple trees. I liked the way they were in a fairly regular line, and there were some fab reflections/refractions in each drop, so I popped my 60mm macro lens on to my OM…