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Today’ daily shoot challenge: Refresh from the summer heat today. Make a photo of water in motion. Freeze it or let it blur!

When I saw the daily shoot challenge this AM, I decided to shoot water spray from garden spray nozzle. So when I got settled in to shoot later this evening the real challenge was to hold the spray nozzle in place. With the family already on vacation, had to get a bit creative this evening.

At one point I thought may be I should tie the spray nozzle to a post. Luckily I was able to keep the nozzle steady by resting it against a flower pot.

I decided to go for the water blur challenge. Had this shot with Nikkor 60mm macro @f/36 for 1/3sec exposure. I like the way it turned out for today’s post.

I had originally thought of shooting flowers from our backyard but it was too hot and muggy outside and decided to go with the texture theme for today’s post.

We have this old garden pot about 6+ year old that we had originally bought for growing Amaryllis bulbs – it has gone through harsh winter, summer, rain and starting losing it’s paint. So for today’s theme I though of shooting this pot as it has wonderful texture and some nice colors.

Had this sit in the patio steps and shot this using my favorite 60mm macro Nikkor lens.

We had rain this afternoon and it was a good break from sticky weather from this AM. As I stepped outside this evening saw these bloom of Firecraker  on our porch and shot this with macro lens.

Firecracker is a tropical plant and we had bought this from a local nursery last year. This survived the winter weather here in St. Louis – had this in the basement lit be CFL bulb.