Nature's Pearl!

[Ramesh Adkoli]

Captured this early morning yesterday at Lalbhag, a sprawling park at the heart of Bangalore. Liked the shine of light and reflection of nearby Coconut trees in the droplet. Kept a shallow DOF to avoid distracting BG. Appreciate your comments and views.

EXIF: D700, 105mm Micro VR, 1/15s, f/8, IS 200, tripod mount, early morning
PP: levels, selective curves and colors, cropped from both LHS and RHS

Regards,
Ramesh

[Alfred Forns]

I like your vision Ramesh

Well composed and executed About all I would do is work on the little hair like projections sticking up left of the drop, might sharpen some and do away with others I like it a lot !!!

[Connie Mier]

Good eye for this one, I like the reflection in the droplet.

[Roger Williams]

Nice presentation of a common subject. I'm waiting for the drop to break and run down the leaf!

[Julie Kenward]

Good position and composition Ramesh. I think it would help to tone down the bottom part of the waterdrop a bit - it really looks blown and it's such a nice waterdrop! Would love to see it all "natural" looking. Neat how you can feel the tension of it on the leaf!

[Mike Moats]

Hey Ramesh, very nice composition, and like the DOF.

[Ramesh Adkoli]

Thanks a lot, Alfred, Connie, Roger, Julie and Mike. Alfred, let me see what i can do about those hairs of grass blade. Roger, i thought so too that drop might run down. It held pretty well even when the wind picked up. Julie, i toned down the bottom part of the drop using selective curves and stopped when it started losing its lustre and became dull. Couldn't reduce further. Any ideas to handle such stuff?

regards,
ramesh