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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Monthly theme day - Water's edge


Each month, on the first, the City Daily Photo Blog community suggests a theme for each of us to interpret.  This month, the theme is The Water's Edge.  I struggled with this one, but it was a good struggle.  I was originally going to try something with my Go Pro camera half in and half out of the water but for the life of me I couldn't finish the thought.  I had no idea what would be even vaguely interesting enough to put in a photo to be posted for the world to see.

I thought about the ponds in Central Park and down in Vale.  I thought about the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers but nothing really jumped out at me.  We had a big thunderstorm about 2 weeks ago, and while snapping photos of leaf reflections in the leftover puddles, I saw the most ordinary thing in the world.  The round manhole cover over the sewer.  As usual, the two finger holes were plugged with dirt and leaves, and without thinking, I walked through the standing water and poked my fingers in them to clear them out.  And immediately, my theme day dilemma was solved - there, not 20 feet from my house, were a pair of whirlpools as the water swirled down those holes into the sewer below.

I took a lot of pictures - 23 of them.  It was a bit of trouble to choose the one I wanted.  This one is my favourite because I can make out the shape of the manhole cover.  I tinkered with zooming in and cropping and when I zoomed in, I could see that I captured a leaf falling.  This is the one for me.

Please visit the rest of the community's offerings at Julie's place: cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com


F Number5.6
Lens IDLUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6
Focal Length45.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 90.0 mm)
Exposure Time1/160
Exposure ProgramManual
ISO400
Exposure Compensation0
FlashOff, Did not fire

4 comments:

  1. Would you please link your post to the Theme Day page on the City Daily Photo portal at http://citydailyphoto.org/index.html
    Unlike the previous portal, this one does not automatically link you, but requires you to go in and enter your own details into a Linky. If you enter anything incorrectly, I will come through and fix it up for you.

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  2. Nice one for theme day! It looks almost like the eye of a hurricane and for better or worse a very timely photo.

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  3. A really original idea for the theme Buck, that's a lot of water gushing down there,you see what you can find when you go poking around haha!

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