Drops! Amazing Nature thematic challenge (15 foto)

I apply this post for #AmazingNature Thematic Challenge hosted by @bucipuci. The weekly theme was: Drops.

Being a vivid macro photographer, I do have something to share with you.

1st goes the snail -- especially to bribe and cheer up my friend @blacklux of @qurator team. Below is two close-up crops of the same frame.

I am fascinated with this drops universe, left on the cobweb in this tiny Peziza mushroom. The only thing left after the morning fog have gone to sleep off his duty. I was fascinated with this little masterpiece, it... i am not a writed, I am sure other Hiveans (and you, as well!) can find a better words then me, saying why this image is so cool and touchy. I am simply out of inks, not the writer! I am a photographer (an amateur one, haha). "No one is as rich as nature after the rain. She can be proud of an infinite number of diamonds", as @bucipuci puts it. So well said!

Let me continue with mushrooms... i.e. with drops.

You may think it is a morning due, but it is not! What if you come across such a scene (its quite typical) right in the middle of a hot day, when not a single dew drop can be seen nowhere around .... but the mushroom has it? And no, the mushroom is not crying, nobody have harmed him or bring away his infants or mummy and daddy. The name is 'guttation' - its a process when mushrooms get rid off the excessive moisture.

Now, you are better educated and knowledgeable then you was 5 mins before. Hive on to the rest of the post.

Simple oak leaves. What is so special about them? They are not so beautiful like red maples leaves, or yellow ivy, nobody sings songs about the dead oak trees, hehe. But they can be very useful. The oak leaves collect water in a special way - they do not tend to be soaked and dont absorb water, due to their more glossy and figurally saying "water-proof" skin / surface. So, in the morning, or after the rain, Simple Oak Tree Leaves Become a Treasury for macro photographer.

And looking at my photos, you guess why.

This one is nothing to do with the oak tree -- feel the difference. Where an oak leaf would have hundreds of drops, creating this amazing miraculous photo-friendly texture, this leave under the same rain has, just, 3-5 drops,-- simply doesnt rank. But of course it is still beautiful, in its own way.

Do open the pic in a separate window and enjoy the capture in all hi-res majesty. Below is two close-up fragments of the photo above. You can look at all the details.

For me, it is an amazing masterpiece created by Mother Nature, being most part done by the Autumn, but the Raindrop Sisters made their input here too. (I took part at the final stage, too: applied .raw format digital development and Photoshop skills, as well).

A focus stake macro, created from 8 shots.

A focus stake macro, created from 2 shots.

Woolf beans is another plant I have a very positive experience of taking pictures -- in terms of the picturesque drops. After a decent rain, or in the morning cold, it may look fantastic and very appealing. This summer I was happy to enjoy a huge art gallery at my summer place. Each morning (when the night was rainy) I woke up, ~~went to pee pee~~ and walked into the garden to enjoy another art gallery created with the help of rain, sky, and these plants. Sometimes I grabbed the camera, too. Not often. Not every time. Actually, I hate to take 1000 thousand all-the-same pictures, I like to see and shoot new stuff which I am not bored yet (well, unless it is mushrooms, of course).

Wolf beans create amazing pictures. But, unvortunately, theres not too much divercity, this is, figurally saying, always the same picture, with just a few altered details or different angle / magnification.

Wolf beens is a useful powerful weed, it looks like this. If its seed will happen to drop into the ground at your location... no lawncutters will help -- it will go on and on and on, in a few years, sooner or later the area will look like this:

But, again, as I said it is a useful weed - it is extremely picturesque and photo-friendly at all life cycle stages, including blooming, pre-blooming and after-bloom drying. Which is a good thing for garden. But the most important feature is, that wolf beans do not drain the soil, vice versa - their roots enrich it with useful nitrogen.