By funtraveller on Skatehive
The rain passed as quickly as it arrived, leaving the street hushed and wet. When the heavy rain finally eased, I stepped outside and found the shrubs along the path wearing a constellation of droplets. They clung to the leaf edges like tiny glass beads—quiet, delicate, and somehow dramatic after all that thunder. Today’s set leans into that calm. I framed four close views, letting the leaves fill the window while the background fell away. Side light traced each serration with a thin ribbon of glow, and the droplets turned into bright punctuation marks across the surface. Up close, they behave like small lenses, bending light and carrying miniature reflections inside them—little worlds briefly balanced on a vein. Black and white felt right for this scene. Without color, the textures step forward: the waxy leaf, the soft bokeh, the sharp rim where light breaks. In editing I lifted the highlights and pulled the blacks lower, just enough to give shape and depth without losing the quiet mo