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WC # 196 Water Bubbles
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WC # 196 Water Bubbles

by Ed Cordes

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted September 25, 20052,546 views10 comments
I made this image about 2 years ago - early in my digital carreer. There was a rain storm that created a pretty good run off in a culvert outside my home. At the enterance to the pipe under the drive the water made several patches of bubbles. This is a shot of one of them.

I used a 10D with 75-300 @ 300. I then cropped the image enough to reveal the details of the individual bubbles. I believe the crop is about 60%. The color in the bubbles is caused by the oil running off the black top road.

This certainly is a different way to look at water. Which, of course is exactly why I made the image :wink:

All comments are most welcome. Thanks for looking.

Comments

10 comments
Comment posted by Barb Hansen on September 25, 2005 at 11:02 PM
Ed this is just amazing, and I can't think of anything to say besides WOW this is really cool....... Great Job!
Registered on May 16, 2005, 380 Posts, 5157 Comments
Comment posted by David Weber on September 25, 2005 at 11:35 PM
No words, just :eek: :cool: !
Registered on February 7, 2005, 296 Posts, 2737 Comments
Comment posted by Mike Moats on September 26, 2005 at 6:40 AM
Very cool and interesting shot Ed. :cool:
Registered on October 20, 2004, 892 Posts, 6324 Comments
Comment posted by Reindert Nijland on September 26, 2005 at 7:10 AM
Very cool indeed! I really like the more or less diagonal lines of bubble rows changing colors.
Registered on February 16, 2005, 54 Posts, 63 Comments
Comment posted by LG Price on September 26, 2005 at 6:22 PM
Wow is taken, how about awesome!! Great catch and wonderful photo. :toast:
Registered on March 9, 2005, 160 Posts, 1500 Comments
Comment posted by George Hall, Jr on September 27, 2005 at 8:02 AM
I still like it, nice image. Wonderful colors and patterns. Nice one!
Registered on July 11, 2004, 283 Posts, 2395 Comments
Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on September 28, 2005 at 2:11 PM
Ed,

a nice image and one could not believe that that is water...
Registered on January 27, 2004, 494 Posts, 4021 Comments
Comment posted by Ed Cordes on October 3, 2005 at 6:56 PM
Thank you all for the kind comments. I also greatly appreciate the honor of being selected an Editor's Pick/

I thought I would post the original image from which I made this crop. There is still a lot of color, but the buble size is more impressive in the cropped version.

Thanks again to all who looked and commented.
Registered on November 1, 2003, 451 Posts, 3366 Comments
Comment posted by Laurie Darcey on October 7, 2005 at 1:59 PM
I really like the crop and thanks for sharing the original.

The one thing I find distracting about the crop is that it feels like the camera angle is coming from the bottom left, but its not a very smooth transition and seems to fall into the back right corner farther from the camera. Maybe consider playing with photoshop distortions a bit to even it out a bit and see how it looks?

Alternatively, you could also crop a bit closer, starting at the bottom left, since the bubbles there are more pleasing than the ones in the top right corner and the right edge.

Just a suggestion. :wink:

Very nice image!
Registered on October 6, 2005, 6 Posts, 231 Comments
Comment posted by Alice Scoggins on October 8, 2005 at 2:08 PM
This is just awesome! Isn't it amazing how much wonderful stuff can be found in the most ordinary places?? Makes me want to go looking in the nearest culvert...
Registered on February 21, 2005, 430 Posts, 5959 Comments