Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

This posting is about ripples in water and the patterns and textures they can create if you know where to look for them.

The first image was taken at a large reflecting pool in downtown Toronto. It was a bright clear day and I was sitting on a bench looking across the pool at an office building with a green copper roof, tan walls and black windows. I looked down at the ripples right in front of me and saw this image of the reflections of the building. Each wave had it's own composition which was rapidly changing with the ripples. I had to use a very high shutter speed to freeze the motion.

The second image was made standing on a bridge over a calm pool with a flat surface. I wanted ripples so I tossed some pebbles into the air and took this image. I gave it a blue rendering in post.

The third image was made again on a clear sunny day looking at the stones on the bottom of a flowing stream. The ripples in the water were invisible but the sunlight refracted by them was projected on the bottom. I created the cutout effect in post.

The last image was taken across a rapidly flowing river directly into early morning sunlight muted by ground fog.
There were a couple of geese swimming against the current. This is a color image and everything in it is either a direct reflection of sunlight or a silhouette of the rapids or the geese in it. The overall texture looks like frozen steel.

Reflecting Pool in Toronto

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Blue ripples in a pool

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Refracted light on a stream bottom

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Geese in a frozen rapid

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I'm very drawn to your stream image. The presentation is stunning! I took a refracted light stream photo a few years ago that was a big bust compared to this one

I also love your "nearly" b&w. A pov and lighting that many wouldn't think to do.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Wonderful set, Reuss! The refracted light triptych is excellent.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

I greatly appreciate your comments particularly when you indicate what you found notable. It's so much better than a thumbs up. I think there is a bit of serendipity in all of these images. As far as the stream image, the angle of the sun, the depth of the water, the season of the year all play a role in this image, none of which I planned just happened upon. Same with the almost b/w image. I had taken a very nice landscape image with the sun burning through ground fog about a mile upstream from this image. I was just traveling downstream looking for something to photograph and there it was.

Perhaps the biggest thing a photographer has going for them is recognizing an opportunity when encountered.

Glad you liked my "stuff" and thanks for looking in.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Thanks Mike. Appreciate your support and I was thinking of a hanging that triptych on a wall. But it would go best on a dark wall and I don't have one and I don't want to paint one either.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

You're very welcome! Along with appreciating details from respondents to my own photos, I get a lot of satisfaction from writing something in other people's.

Partly this is good brain exercise, coming up with the words to match my feelings

Re your comment, "Perhaps the biggest thing a photographer has going for them is recognizing an opportunity when encountered..." I agree 100% and have been fortunate to experience often.

If you haven't looked at the now-eight-page thread in main discussion section titled, "Where do you find inspiration?" you'll see that point addressed a couple of times:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-803164-1.html

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Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

I normally don't comment on other's posts unless I have something substantive to say. Thanks for pointing out the thread on inspiration, I'll check it out.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Some very interesting images Reuss!

Don

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Glad you like them Don and taking the time to check them out. The first one is my favorite because it was a most exciting experience to see it for the first time. It was constantly changing like watching fireworks. I've seen it in other images but not as dramatic as this image.

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

Very nice!! I really like #2 and #3!!

Dodie

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Glad you liked them Dodie and thanks for checking them out. Usually you mean when you say you made an image is that you took particular care to get the composition and lighting just right. But in #3 I really made that image by throwing pebbles in the water first.

Thanks for looking in.

randave2001 Loc: Richmond

Wonderful set.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Excellent set.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

Thanks for looking in Randave. Happy to see you enjoyed my whimsy.