Morning Dew – A Study in the Credit River Valley
BySeptember in Toronto has had more beautiful days than both July and August this year. To take advantage of this gorgeous weather, Tito and I went hiking in Caledon over the weekend.
We left home at 6:30 and were rewarded by arriving at the park just as the sun was creeping over the tops of the trees. There was a scrubby little patch of grass in the patch, with some weeds sprouting out of it. Charming, right? The weeds were New England Astor and Red Clover. Here’s a pic of my setup.
I’m using my Canon 5D Mark III on a tripod, with Canon’s 100mm f2.8 macro lens and 2 keno extension tubes. The flowers don’t look like much. But as the sun crept over the trees, under the setup of my macro lens, you could see the morning dew collected on delicate petals, petals which still hadn’t opened for the day.
These were shot with no artificial lighting and processed with minimal colour correction, and no special effects. Just the natural interaction of morning dew and a rising sun.
We continued our hike, seeing the waterfalls at the end of the meadow trail, the mist coming off the pond, and tiny little frogs sunning themselves, but these shots were definitely my favourite. I took one final shot as we were retracing our steps a few hours later.
I was grateful for the chance to see some of the beautiful stages these tiny little flowers pass through before they open and dry out for the day :) These photos have all been added to my photography site at Smugmug.
I used to drive through Caledon every weekend on my way north – thanks for reminding me of that area and thanks for these beautiful pics.
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Beautiful shots, Shireen. Looks kike these could be inspiration for new jewellery creations ;)
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OH MY GOD! These are so beautiful…each one is a little universe of its own. Thank you for capturing such delicate and sensitive images…it isn’t often that I have the chance to stop in the morning sunrise and contemplate the dew-kissed flowers, so thank you for sharing these beautiful images with us, that I may enjoy such a visual treasure…a blessing!
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Reblogged this on Yoga Mom and commented:
These stunning images of such a simple subject–morning dew on flowers–took my breath away. Mother Nature provides us with universes upon universes to contemplate, and I thank the sensitive souls and the open hearts who notice these universes and then show them to us. If you haven’t had a look at Shireen Nadir’s blog before, check it out. This lady is amazingly talented and never fails to wow me with her creations.
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Oh wow! That second pic of the flowers would make a wonderful desktop!
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Thank you everyone for the sweet comments :) Glad you enjoy <3
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Lovely photos! For some reason your site always shows me the broken links on over half the pictures. Some show but others don’t. :(
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That’s frustrating! I’m not sure what could be causing it, is anyone else experiencing this?
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