Fog droplets

17 Friday Jan 2025

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beads of water on plants, fog droplets, ivy berries dripping water, water droplets, water on cobwebs

Our weather is currently see-sawing between days of bright blue skies and days of heavy grey gloom. Today, we have the former and it’s a delight to be out, soak up the vitamin D, and feel the warmth of the winter sun but, yesterday, the fog was so thick all day that the fog horn was blaring in the Bristol Channel and you could barely see more than 20 feet in front of you. Still, even fog brings with it small scenes of exquisite beauty …

The structures of cobwebs were highlighted by their covering of water droplets.

This was purely accidental: I love how the large water droplet in the centre is reflecting an Ivy leaf.

Ivy berries dripped with beads of water

Mosses growing in a gap in a wall looked like miniature sculptures with the sparkling coatings of water

Soggy and foggy

30 Wednesday Nov 2022

Posted by sconzani in weather

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cobwebs, fog, foggy day, water droplets, water droplets on webs

It was soggy and foggy all day here but I did have fun photographing water droplets on cobwebs. What’s that they say about small things amusing small minds?

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I can’t decide whether I prefer the first shot, with the yacht and the pier in the background, or the second, with just the droplets. Opinions?

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337/365 Condensation

03 Tuesday Dec 2019

Posted by sconzani in nature, winter

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condensation, reflections in water, water, water droplets

Condensation: noun; Water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it (Oxford Dictionary).

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As I live in an old, Grade-II-listed building that only has single glazing and I don’t like to have my heating on so high that I can wear t-shirts all year round, I sometimes get condensation on the inside of my windows. It can be a bit tedious to deal with but it’s also rather lovely, especially when you look closely and see the outside world reflected upside down in the water droplets.

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249/365 Droplets

06 Friday Sep 2019

Posted by sconzani in 365DaysWildin2019, nature

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#365DaysWild, feather, rain drops, water droplets, water on feather

Water, and the way it interacts with other materials, can be fascinating. Take the water droplets on this feather, for example.

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Considering there weren’t any droplets on the surrounding dirt or grass, I’m not exactly sure why the water is clinging to the feather in this way. Presumably it has something to do with the structure of the feather itself, the miniscule hooks and barbs that hold the feather together and help to keep a bird waterproof. It certainly was lovely to look at.

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