Photo Venture Camera Club went to Spring Mill State Park this past weekend and befitting the fact that rainfall is over 50% above normal, I found that most of my shots involved water in one form or another.  We were fortunate though, it didn’t rain until Saturday midafternoon.

It’s surprising what lengthening out the exposure does for images of flowing water.  The image above was about .3 sec. in duration.  If you had walked past the stream you probably would have done just that, walked past.  Human vision is fast enough that you would not have seen the silky effect a camera can show.

It’s just a matter of learning what to look for and hoping for the best.

But once you see the possibilities it can get tedious for those with you.  You’re snapping away and they probably don’t see the possibilities.  Which is fine, they see something else.

It can be very satisfying to see a possibility and have it pan out.  Digital photography helps a great deal here.  We can take chances and shoot a lot of scenes that might (probably) won’t be interesting once we see them on the computer.  But there is no particular cost.  I took 600 pictures in about 24 hours.  Perhaps 2% of them are worth looking at.

We weren’t the only ones on the water.

That’s why I love photography.