David is a Brisbane based photographer offering portrait, landscape and commercial photographic services.

These pictures are from David's personal gallery - he is available for hire at his Professional Photography site.

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Photo Tags

• Canon
• S2is
• Queensland
• Australia
• Brisbane
• City
• Office
• Waterfront Place
• Raindrops
• Skyline
• Bokeh
• Interestingness
• Macro
• Water

Comments

• benefit of hindsight said:
  very nice raindrops too, David.
  And look inside those big drops ! Wonderful !
• David de Groot said:
  I had to crop this one a little as the silver front end of the S2 was reflecting on the window - damn annoying that, you'd have thought they'd have made it with a non-reflective colour/coating on the outer lens ring.
  
  Still, I was quite happy with the outcome (after cropping) :)
• Garry' said:
  wow, great idea. Those rain drops came out really nice
• David de Groot said:
  Thanks Gazza, I also took a series of 30 shots (1 per minute) as the storm came across. Quite impressive to behold, if a bit dark towards the last few frames.
  
  I've plonked them together into a quicktime movie here.
• looby88 said:
  goodness did it really go as dark as that.. looks like an eclipse !!love those big drops !!
• David de Groot said:
  Yes, it did indeed - pretty impressive really, but once the front passed it brightened up again.
• Suzzie J said:
  One of the rare days it actually rains in Brisbane - great capture!
• David de Groot said:
  Here's to many more wet days Suzzie :)
  
  According to the BoM, Wivenhoe Dam got > 28mm of rain out of that storm, and more came through later in the evening.
• photo by Alison said:
  "Raindrops on Roses and whiskers on kittens... these are a few of my favourite things..."
  
  It DID get very dark... What a cool idea to capture it like that.... so did you get any work done that day?
  
  Very cool up-side-down image of the city skyline in the drop!!
• Clearskies Images said:
  Good Capture, well done!
• David de Groot said:
  Alison, yep, the camera has a setting to do timed captures, so I could work while it did ;)
  
  Of course it was more interesting to watch the storm instead ;)
  
  Thanks Cecily :)
• leadegroot said:
  Dave has the coolest office - huge panes of glass and a great view from up high of the Brisbane River.
  Any excuse I can find to visit is a good one :)
  
  Hey, I didn't realise from the small view in the feed reader, but this one is bokeh too!
• yewenyi (文意) said:
  A brilliant image, I have learned how those little rain drops are acting as lenses.
• David de Groot said:
  It's neat how they do that isn't it Brian. In theory one could make a little tiny lens using a few thin sheets of glass and some water droplets in a tube - might be a cool project for a pin-hole camera.
• Margot- said:
  Cool, clear raindrops! And nice bokeh, too!
• David de Groot said:
  Thanks Margot :)
  
  I took it on a whim.
• Maki_C30D said:
  Wish I can fave the quicktime movie you made:-D
  great capture! love the reflection.
• David de Groot said:
  Thanks Maria :)
  
  I love storms and would happily go chase them to take photos if it wasn't for that having to work thing...
• picsbymac said:
  Really nice!
• *Micky said:
  This is cool, I love those tiny little reflections within the drops.
  Thanks for sharing in the Water drops theme at:
  The World Through My Eyes
• David de Groot said:
  Thanks Micky :)
• msc-web.de said:
  ...real nice. Some days ago i did some like that...but not sooo nice like yours!
  
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  Seen in a discussion of The World Through My Eyes - Post 2 / Comment Any 1. (?)
• David de Groot said:
  Thanks :)