Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: mesh

1 image above in a note! :) Today when I went over to investigate the mesh frame on top of my garden tub, I found a very interesting formation that was hanging down under the mesh. It appears that the snow that was sitting on top melted and dribbled through the mesh and re-froze, and then the weight caused part of it to detach, leaving just the top adhered. The result looks quite a lot like a fancy diamond pendant, perhaps in the shape of a cross. I put another picture above as an inset so that you can see it from the side. This way you will have a better understanding of how it melted through the mesh! Totally neato! :)

This is an alternate image for my 365 project. I had a hard time deciding which to choose, so I've included this one for you to see as well! :) I would be interested to know which of the two pictures you prefer!

The rain was coming down at a steady pace this morning, which meant that I'd be taking my first indoor 365 Project picture! With a skip in my step, I grabbed my camera and went to the kitchen, where my first picture would take place! Lucky's Spa & Luxury Retreat is housed in a 10-gallon aquarium topped by a mesh lid. We spray water into the enclosure several times each day to hydrate the moss, add humidity, and give the frogs a shower! We discovered that we can just spray through the mesh instead of taking it off, and that's when I discovered the wonderful droplets that are formed when we do this! (By the way, I'll be taking plenty of frog pictures to share on rainy days, and yes, they are doing GREAT!!) Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical leftist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut

We are now having crazy weather days, when it rains hard for 15 minutes and then the sun comes out. Just when you think the day will be beautiful, the skies close in and the rain pours down again! The air changes from still and quiet to a gale-force wind within moments. The sky can be dark and ominous one hour, and bright blue with puffy clouds rolling by the next! I didn't know if I'd be able to get out between the storms, but every time I looked out our downstairs bathroom window, I kept looking at the window screens we have leaning against the house. Some of them have been blown over from the wind and are laying on the ground. It is not possible to resist staring at the droplets of water resting there, shimmering when puffs of wind make them tremble and shake, glimmering brightly whenever the sun peeks out from behind the clouds. I have been waiting for the perfect day to take pictures of these screens, and today was it! :D The one thing I did was to carefully pick up one of the screens and bring it over to rest on the cover of our spa so that I could take pictures from underneath. I'd taken test pictures a couple of weeks ago and decided that it would be nice if I could take some from below as well as from above. This is the picture I liked from underneath, capturing a droplet complete with a starburst. If you look, you can see a partial yin-yang symbol in the droplet!! There is also a heart in the background, do you see it?! :) John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. Wikipedia: John Ruskin Explored on Flickr on February 23, 2013. Highest position: #435.

Here is another picture from today, and if you can believe it, I did NOT create that dazzling starburst!! I took a lot of pictures trying to focus on the little glinting spots of the droplets, and this one was pretty much dead-on! What a starburst!!! For those of you who cannot seem to get this kind of shot, the way to get them is to find a shiny subject--it could be droplets or a shiny surface--and move around the subject until you find it gleaming the brightest. Try to set your focus at where you think the center of that glimmer is, and then take a bunch of pictures from slightly different angles and many different apertures. Hopefully when you look at the pictures on your computer, you'll find a dazzling star shining back at you! :D I would love to know if you are able to get those pictures you're hoping for! :) GOOD LUCK!

Here is a close up showing the wonderful stained-glass effect that happens when a film of water fills a tiny square of mesh! I added a bit of saturation to give this image more color, I hope you like it! :)