I had a play at photographing water droplets last night (that’s droplets as opposed to drops – been there done that). My main conclusions are:

a) I need to get a tripod of my own (and stop sponging off Garry), and
b) I need to sort out some decent lighting – light bulbs just don’t cut it for this kind of stuff…

Anyway – here’s the best picture (imho):

(It’s water sprayed onto a blue CD-R, btw. No post-processing, except crop and resize to make it suitable for a desktop wallpaper)

Meanwhile, the pros have been getting their awards this week over at worldpressphoto.nl. There are some very, very good pictures there (some of which you can’t help but look at with a heavy heart), and it’s hard to choose a favourite, but these two made me stop and look:

The "Sports Action Stories" 1st prize – it has a strangely surreal quality to it, almost like it’s a picture of a subbuteo set or something.
The "Sports Action Singles" 1st prize – mainly because it made me look at least twice.

But, look at them all – there are some really excellent pictures.

Wow – that’s a bit of a depressing site if you actually get into it, isn’t it? It seems to me that the judges have an obsession with death, or maybe death just makes a good photo – I don’t know. Anyway, how about a picture of a nice fluffy arctic fox and a game of Zuma to cheer you up?