Water and Raindrops

Water is another thing we are always taking for grated, at least in developed countries. We always have water, just have to turn on the tap and there it is. However, things may change in the near future. Drought in many areas of the world was just another word in the dictionary till now, but things are changing rapidly.

We've been having drought every summer here and there, but what's going on lately is simply unprecedented. This year is quite a lot regions were set up restrictions of different levels. This means that tap water was restricted according to a certain schedule. This seems bad as you need to use your time wisely to be able to do the work you need to do, plus there's a high chance the pressure could drop for so many using the water in the same time. This should never happen in the 21st century, but here we are. And what is worse, where there's no tap water and wells are drying out, water is a huge problem.

We are fortunate though as I have never had water shortage or restriction where I live and there's plenty of water in the well, where my dad is based. We use the well for irrigation, as otherwise there will be nothing in the garden. This has going on for years now and today I can say the garden can't survive without irrigation.

This summer has not been different from the others and I think it's safe to say that rain had become a scarcity. We're happy to get some rain here and there and don't have to worry about carrying an umbrella as it is not necessary.

This morning I woke up to rain and it seemed very strange. Yes, we're not accustomed to rain anymore it seems. It rained for about 3 hours, which is a blessing, trust me.

Whit the rain, I saw an opportunity to take some photos and try to practice as raindrops are not easy to photograph.

My device is my phone, I don't have a professional camera to be able to do miracles, so my only choice was to take a bunch of photos from different angles and distances and see what comes out of it.

There's a mosquito net on the window, which is more for the flies not mosquitos as we don't have mosquitos. We should not have flies either, but my neighbor is an asshole, but that's a whole different story.

While I was taking these photos, I saw that some of the raindrops are reflecting the net, distorted obviously, but I find it very cool.

Then I went to another window and took some different shots. These were not through the window glass, it was just the net.

After I took these shots, I said let's see how many are actually usable, so I set down to download them to my laptop and see if there's need for another set. Or two. Or three?

So I downloaded them, had a look and decided to take some more and see if I can get better shots. It's just that mother nature had different plans as the rain stopped, the raindrops flowed down from the net and I was left with nothing.

Honestly I'm not saying I could not take a single cool shot as there are a couple good ones here, but I would have loved to take more shots. This was fun and I think I've learnt something.

Next time I have to pay attention and start when the rain starts, if there's plenty of rain for the net to be wet, or the window. When will be that? Only God knows 🤷‍♀ Maybe during autumn. In any case, I see this as difficult as photographing perfect snowflakes. But the good news is that I was able to do both this year, so I'm considering myself lucky from this point of view.