“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.” Hagumi Hanamoto
Purple Rain
Photography OCD
A somewhat healthy obsession with photography
“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.” Hagumi Hanamoto
Photography OCD 
How do you manage to make such beautiful pictures? This one is so dreamy 🙂
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Thanks Kacha, I’ll tell you the secret. For the last 15 years I’ve been going out to take pictures almost every day, rain or shine. Four cameras later, several courses in Photoshop and literally tens of thousands of deleted photos and I think I may be getting the hang of it now. 😀
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15 years! that’s quite a long time and dedication. It pays off! I started cooking more than 15 years ago, I practise almost every day, I like it, I throw someting in the garbage but I’m still not that good at it 😁
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And that is why people eat macaroni and cheese! I used to bake bread but it was a lot of work even though it was so much better than store bought.
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Love the raindrops! 😊
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Thanks Irene. To me Macro is a 100mm lens, a tripod and a ton of patience, none of which I have. 😥
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Yes, true macro is a 1:1 ratio which requires a long lens or preferably a macro lens. For the purpose of this challenge, close up photography is just fine. My love of macro photography started out with getting close up shots with whatever lens I had at the time. For that reason, I would rather people have fun taking a close up shot of their subject whether it is true macro or not. 😊
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Well that’s a whole different close up ball of wax Irene. Maybe you could add that close up is close enough?
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I thought I had on the “About” page but I am forgetful sometimes. I will take a look. 😊
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I see it now, Goodnight Irene!
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Yay! Glad it is there. Wouldn’t have been the first time that I thought I meant to do something and promptly forgot.
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You and me both. 😳
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Lovely shot, Mike. This is Kale, right?
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Thanks. I just did some very extensive research on Google (3 seconds) and discovered that Ornamental Cabbage is the same as Kale so yes.
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Oh gosh, Mr Google is really a big help!
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As always. I love your work
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Thank you.
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A lovely photograph!
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Thanks Tiffany. I had my tripod in my car all summer but it was sitting home yesterday when I could have really used it. I love your art by the way and will be exploring it more later on.
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Oh Mike, I so adore decorative cabbage, wonderful macro of this one. 😀
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Thanks Cee, I couldn’t pass up those beautiful raindrops.
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Beautiful layers in that flower.. 😉
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Its a flower, its a salad, and its beautiful if you look at it right. 😉
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