Blue raindrops on a window, with reflections below. A cool and busy still life piece. Share and enjoy.

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These raindrops were on the back window of a friend’s car, after the rain (appropriately). This was as close as I could get with my 50mm lens; I put the focus right in the center, so it fades out toward the edges. I liking how the reflections of light and clouds in the background turned out. You can see an outline of each drop on the underside of the window below, which is also interesting.

This is the spiritual successor of The Sky’s Ceiling …

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Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.