Fire Water

Long old day today, up earlyish for the drive down to Portsmouth to watch Pompey take on, and lose, against Hull.

God knows how we lost... Well, pub team defending might have had something to do with it.. Also, as the old saying goes, our strikers couldn't score in a brothel..!!!!

After the game I popped into my parents for a couple of hours before heading back to London in the evening.

Decided on giving the old water droplet shots another quick go tonight. For this I placed a tea-light candle behind a glass and set the tap running.... Took about 50 shots in total... amazing how easy it is to bang off a load of shots so quickly.....

Back to work for most tomorrow after a long festive break... Not for me though... I have an extra day off and don't go back until Wednesday :-)

Been a busy Christmas period and I haven't been commenting much... sorry folks, should be back to normal now....

[Mrs. Smith]

Lucky! I went back to work today! And I like how you captured both of the water droplets.

[Karen Hofmann]

Very cool, Andy! It definitely has a unique look to it and looks like fire and ashes.

[Erin Henry]

woahhhh, this is one of the coolest droplet pictures ive ever seen! :)

[Juliette Packham]

Long old days are OK when you're doing good stuff! love this water shot. the tea light works really well behind the glass. enjoy your rest tomorrow!

[Vikdaddy]

forest did the business though! climbing up the table, slowly but surely!

[Danielle Dutra]

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andy c]

@mrssmith back today!! Today was a bank holiday over here... you really should work in the UK :-)

[Kris]

Love this! I hope to remember to try this at some point. :)

[Darrell Soper]

Very cool shot. Clever idea with the candle. A fav.

[Bill Dodsworth]

Very nice capture! Happy New Year!

[Teresa (pocketmouse)]

Fab capture. Amazing!

[josh james]

wow! 50 shots and with a result like this? amazing! great capture! the light is so nice! :)

[Graham Harcombe]

This is pretty spectacular Andy - superb shot.

[Aaron L]

hi 5 the Tuesday off! All about that! ive done water shots once, its bloody hard. but you've nailed it on this one.

[imn2it]

sweet!

[robinwarner]

thank goodness for digital. this is amazing....i wanna try it one day.. you did a fabulous job

[The Steve From 2010]

Very. Bloody. Awesome.

Surely going to make the "PP"

[Susan]

Very creative looks like burning charred embers.

[Joe Ciras]

Nice shot. The top one looks like it is wearing a hat (the white spot on the left)

[Chimom]

how cool! thanks for your good wishes, i will still stick around but not one photo a day, i just love this community too much :)

[Rebecca Doyle]

This seriously looks like lava! Nice work :)

[french_blue]

very nice...

[sarahb]

great catch :) happy new year andy!

[Constance Brinkley]

Andy, this is a really cool effect. Looks like drops going into a fire of embers. Nicely executed. Enjoy you day off.

[oselleso]

Amazing! ... That kind of shots, only achieved with people who have an eye, calculation and patience ...

[HC]

So, so good, Andy. I like this one a lot....:)

[HC]

It kind of reminds me of lava.....

[Annie Charalambous]

Nice one!

[wendy chapman]

Very interesting shot.

[Madeline Fontenot]

WOW ! ! ! Very cool shot!

[alistair]

nice!

[Paula Fontanini]

FANTASTIC shop and you make it sound so easy...NOT! :)

[Emily Hoffman]

Amazing shot!! Im so jealous that you can take water droplet shots- I still can't figure it out haha.. Great job

[Hee]

Beautiful setup of the water shot...looks like "fire in water". Well done!

[Brooke K Smith]

ok this is awesome and I am so jealous of all of you water drop people. I just looked into what I need to make this happen and I don't have it. But i am getting it soon. Man....keep inspiring me!

[andy c]

Wow... Thanks everyone for all you great comments, always very much appreciated :-)
@bks thanks... All you need is a camera, tap and glass.. that's all I used... keep the tap dripping fairly fast and click away.. Lots of rubbish shots but you'll catch one or two that should be good.

[Shannon Pitton]

Very cool effect. Love the colors in the background coming through the water.

[Casey Brinklow]

Wow, thats really cool!

[Darrell Soper]

Congrats on PP.

[Brian A. Powers]

Pretty awesome pic good job

[Jan Flynn]

Really clever and very beautiful...it's shots like this that inspire me to be more creative myself. :)

[Kirsty .P]

Awesome shot!

[Michelle Sheils]

Wow Andy. This is fabulous!

[andy c]

thanks guys :-)
@artistmichelle see you're enjoying Oz, some great snaps... but thought you were over there for the cricket :-)

[Slava]

Gorgeous droplet!! I still haven't attempted the water drops photography, but you inspire me!

[Philip Clark]

This is the 3rd or 4th photo of yours I've clicked on while browsing the popular photos today - well done!

[Michelle Sheils]

@andycoleborn Oh yes, cricket first obviously. And thanks :)

[Rebbecca Castillo]

This is freakin' brilliant!!

[Rebecca Kettinger]

Amazingly beautiful shot!

[Harmony Z]

LOve it!!

[Sheri Peterson]

Such an amazing shot! You have inspired me to try this. I visited Portsmouth when my daughter was visiting the UNH campus, and it's a lovely little town. We ended up spending two days there just wandering through the shops and good eating. Very fun!

[andy c]

Thanks again guys for your great comments... @petersonsheri ha ha, this is Portsmouth, Hampshire, not Portsmouth, New Hampshire ;-)... ie England.. not so much a lovely little town, more a hard nosed navy city :-)

[Sheri Peterson]

@andycoleborn Whoops. My mistake. I should have picked up on that when you mentioned heading back to London "for the evening". ;-)

[Kourtnee]

very pretty!

[Laura Abbey]

Love the picture. Gonna try and have a go myself. However, am very new to the photography world and just getting used to my Nikon. Here goes......