A flowery rainy Friday

Last one, and the flowery photos are done for the year. Unless more of them pop up in the next little while. Which would be a bit of a surprise, given the time of the year and that Linda is starting to tidy up and put the garden to bed for the winter.

It was a long dry summer with a broken water main and water usage restrictions. Now those are almost done and it's raining lots. We were drifting off to sleep last night and then the thunderstorm started. I was a bit tempted to get out of bed and see what photos were to be had. Then it passed, I rolled over, and mostly went to sleep. Or as much sleep as there is to be had. 

Today looks like rain all day, so I think I'll do indoor stuff today. Yeah, shocking, I know. There's wine bottles to clean and figure out how many kits to order for arrival next year. Photo gear to organize. Plans changed for a weekend photo session so I need to figure out the alternatives to find photos I can show to other people in the dark room class. Keep an eye out for a package that's supposed to arrive today. Some community association president stuff to do. This life of a retired person always busy.

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Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Driftwood (NL)

Film

This photo gives just a hint of why I did most of the waterfall photos in black and white. Much of the water was tinted orange from the iron oxides in the stone. Harmless, but looks gross in photos, and doubly so of there's foam or debris stained by long contact with the water.

Linda

Newfoundland

You will recall that one of my bucket list photos was waves crashing onto a craggy rocky shore. Well, this has the rocky shore, but it's flat. I was working the composition, trying to get the splash and the chunk of driftwood in focus. Except it was so flat I had to pay attention to how far the waves were coming up on shore. I didn't get my feet wet, but I had to scuttle back away from the water several times.