An abstract from 2015, one that came out very well – this is not bragging (well, much,) but recognition that the odds played out in my favor. The reflections are all from the sun on rippling water, so each of those sparkles was only there for a millisecond in time – it would be easy to have too many clustered together, or too few, but the line meandering up the frame works well, and the two on the tips of the leaf are a great touch. Meanwhile, since the exposure was set automatically and was compensating for that reflected light, the darkness of the water and the leaf itself could have been distinctly different, but here it provides a ghostly quality. I’ll take credit for knowing that a smaller aperture would produce the starbursts better, but I’ve known that for decades – it’s not exactly an advanced trick. But all that said, it deserved to be seen again.
