Water – H2O – is in our body, in the food we eat and the beverages we drink.
We shower and wash ourselves with it, clean our clothes, our dishes, our cars (even if it is wasteful)
and everything else around us. We can travel on it, use it for fun and just jump into it to cool off on a hot day.
It provides us with food. Many of the products that we use every day contain it or were manufactured using it.
All forms of life need it, and if they don’t get enough of it, they die. All life – including us!
In some places on earth, it's incredibly difficult to get, in others not so much or only in plastic bottles.
For some it's the most valuable asset, others don't waste a thought about it, because it's a convenience which always was available. For a photographer water is an incredible motive. No matter in which size or shape.
A drop on a flower pedal gets the heart racing of a macro photographer. The huge ocean, calm in the golden sunlight at sunset is one of the coolest subjects to shoot for any photographer. The Waves, a waterfall, a puddle,
a fountain, an iceberg, an icicle; the list is long of shapes water can be an exciting model to shoot.
Plus it's one of these subjects one really can get to know it's camera with. There are so many
different settings to use with so many different outcomes. Get a little fog onto the surface with
a longtime exposure or shoot with a very short time and freeze the drops coming down from a fountain.
However you set up your camera the results will be almost always worth the effort.
