Challenge: Marbles of rain

[Thomas Herou]

Found a couple of tulips in the rain and dived into them with my 2:1 macrogear.

Pentax K20D,FA 50/2,8,TC A-2x-S,AF 160FC ringflash
1/180s,f/28,ISO 100

[Fabs Forns]

Very cool, love the arrangement of the drops, you chose the perfect framing, way to go.

[Alfred Forns]

Way Cool !! Love the fine detail and composition !! All in its right place with nothing cut !! Simple and beautiful !!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Thomas,
Extremely well done!!! Love the flow of the drops and what takes this up yet another notch is the center of the tulip in the 3 main drops!!! Super job with the theme!

[Thomas Herou]

Thanks Fabs,Al and Roman.
It took some time before the drops were where I wanted them to be.
It was quite windy in the rain.

[Cheryl Flory]

beautiful image!
what is your 2 to 1 gear??

[Bob Miller]

Super shot...love the repeating circles

[Anita Bower]

Very nice! Those rain drops are marvelously captured. The reflected flower (?) adds interest. The colors and lines of the Tulip are lovely and are a nice contrast to the horizonal line and the dark bg. Lovely light. Good job.

[Ken Childs]

Beautiful comp, color and details. A fantastic shot!

I think for the purposes of the challenge I would have liked to seen a tight crop on just one of the drops.

[Thomas Herou]

Thanks!
If I would've cropped one marble the magnification scale should be app.10:1.
I think 2:1 will do.But it's a really intresting idea.I shall test it some time.

[Christopher Miller]

Very well done, Thomas! Excellent detail and I love the flower center reflected in the drops. :)

[OvidiuCavasdan]

Like the compo and colors. Sharp and cool reflections. Excellent!

[Julie Kenward]

Outstanding! This is definitely one of my favorites for the challenge. Fabs is right - the comp feels perfect with a nice balance of raindrops along the top edge. Beautifully seen and executed, Thomas!

[Anita Bower]

THIS IS THE WINNER. (It was a hard choice, between this one and Ken's frog eye.)

[Jerry van Dijk]

Hi Thomas, very nice and unusual picture! I especially like that the tulip is reflected in those larger drops to remind us that we are actually looking at part of a flower!

[Adrian David]

Beautiful capture! I love the flower reflections in the drops.

[Julie Kenward]

THIS IS THE WINNER! Man, it was tough to pick but I kept coming back to these perfect raindrops!

[Fabs Forns]

THIS IS THE WINNER.
Agree it was a hard choice, Jules.

[OvidiuCavasdan]

THIS IS THE WINNER!
Difficult for me to choose...

[Desmond Chan]

I may have cropped the top a bit but, THIS IS THE WINNER !

[Thomas Herou]

Thanks all!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

A very fine image, congrats Thomas!