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Here are a few water shots that were pretty fun to do.

Really wondeful work - all so differently composed, lit and colored, I could never pick a favorite. Well Done!!

well done fantastic shots can not pick a favorite

wow!

how did you do them? They look marvellous.
I think I like no 1 best...

Uli

Great work, they are so sharp and detailed. Love them all.

Sharon

Beautiful Sharon - number 1 grabs me the most.

fantastic shots! The colour and detail in #1 and #2 are brilliant.

Very nice. I'd love to try this, but it's still a little intimidating for me. My favourite is #4, because I enjoy the unusual pattern of droplets. It looks like bubbles in glass.

Wow, really well done!

Thanks everyone. My technique for doing this really isn’t as complicated as it seems. First I got a bowl and put it in the sink under the water faucet. I put some brightly colored stones in it and turned on the faucet. I had my macro lens on, my camera set to shutter priority, 1/1000, and my flash on low. I placed a spoon (whatever’s on hand would do) in the spot where the water fell so that my auto focus could focus on the correct spot (maybe easier with manual focus, but not with my camera). Once I was focused, I moved the spoon and just started shooting away. I experimented with several different speeds of water flow, different stone arrangements, different colored bowls, and different angles to get the desired effects, and it took many shots to get a few that I really liked.