[PotD] Rain II

[moonvoice]

today i combined my love of abstract photography
with my love of the rain.
and i don't care if no one else likes the results
because i love them.
i should do this more often.







Light rain.





Heavier rain.





Heavier still...

Comments

[white_rabbit]

Oh I love these. I would put the heavier-rain grey one on my wall for sure. :)

[moonvoice]

Eeee. For a while there I was worried I would be the only one who enjoyed them (not that that would have necessarily been a bad thing).

[skyfiery]

These are gorgeous. :)

[moonvoice]

Thank you! <3

[cmcmck]

Nice!

What's the language on your cut note?

[moonvoice]

It's the Vilturj dialect, which is part of the familial shamanism that I practice. It's simply a salutation to the rain (the god L'yuvotn'r.)

[cmcmck]

I like the idea of a salutation to the rain. after all, there's a lot of it about in the UK :o)

It reminded me of a couple of Baltic languages, which would make sense given that the area was (still is) a bastion of Shamanism.

I have Latvian ancestry, although they were Jewish.

[moonvoice]

Yeah, through research I've wondered if some of it is piecemeal, which wasn't entirely uncommon in some of the familial strains of Russian / Eastern European shamanism anyway. But yeah, I have the habit of making salutations at everything, since it's such an animistic practice, I generally salute the moon, thunder, the rain, heavy rain etc. Heh.

[perlandria]

They are gorgeous.

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :)

[clare_dragonfly]

These are so beautiful. The first and last remind me of the aurora borealis.

[moonvoice]

Oh wow, that's so awesome!

[faolchu_rua]

These really are amazing. How did you get the camera to focus so clearly on the rain? It's gorgeous!

[moonvoice]

I used my zoom lens, and then maxed out the zoom, and then just slightly adjusted until I could focus on the mid-range of the focal length. It was actually pretty difficult to work it out at first, but the zoom lens gives you that really long focal length to find the best rain. :) It also produces that really lovely bokeh in the background.

[brushwolf]

I liked them. This and your previous set of photos really are a lot more like what I see in your illustration.

[moonvoice]

Wow, thank you! :)

[silere]

These are beautiful!

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :)

[goodbyebird]

STUNNING ♥

[moonvoice]

Thank you. <3

[avia]

Oh wow, those are absolutely amazing! I love the first one particularly. The colors~!

[moonvoice]

Eee thank you. :)

[laughinglotus]

I find these photos very relaxing.

[moonvoice]

Thank you. Me too. I sat out there watching the rain through the lens for some time!

[stephbg]

I like. There's even a redbubble group that specialises in such things - Abstract Lines.

[moonvoice]

Huh, that's pretty cool. I don't really use Redbubble, but if I ever pick it up again, I'll check them out. :)

[wendelah1]

I love the top two the best.

[moonvoice]

Thank you. :D They are my favourites as well.

[silverjackal]

I actually really love the first (and last) a great deal). The soft blur of the colours is very evocative. :)

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :D

[kath_ballantyne]

These are stunning. I love them.

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :)

[burning_ground]

I think I've said this in the past here, but I would definitely love a framed series of these... What a mood piece that would be. (I think "mood piece" is a real term?)

[moonvoice]

I think mood piece is a real term too. It certainly seems to fit, anyway!

[hrafn]

Oh, that would be wonderful!

Beautiful!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I love these.

I haven't tried rain, but I've gotten excellent abstracts of fireworks and holiday lights.

Re: Beautiful!

[moonvoice]

I liked the results of this enough that I'm definitely going to try again. :D

[shistavanenjedi]

If you want to redesign your website, you could use them as background images or something.

[moonvoice]

That's true! I might think of a way I can use them again. :D

[fox_bard]

I love the last one! It sings what a beautiful rainy April day looks like here when I don't have my glasses on. ^___^

[fadedwings]

These are awesome!

[tulikettu]

the green is my favourite. these are gorgeous!