Happy Accident: Water Pearls on a Web

[best appreciated at full size against black]

Don't you just love happy accidents? Many of the world's best inventions came about because of an unplanned event. Photography works this way too! I can't tell you how many times I've taken a macro picture and found something unplanned on my computer when I looked at the image! In this case, I'd taken our ring flash along for a photo shoot, and when I found a lovely spider web drenched after a morning rain, I began taking pictures. After a few shots, I looked at my LCD monitor and noticed that the pictures were very dark. "Hmm," I thought to myself...why are these so dark??" *light bulb over head lights up* Mumbling one of my favorite idiot-check questions that Steve loves to say, "Is the O-F-F/O-N switch in the O-N position?" *looks at flash attachment power position* "Why, no! No, it's not!" *turns on the flash attachment* :D :D :D "Now, where was I?!"

After I uploaded my pictures to my computer, I was in the process of tossing these images when I stopped and thought, "Why not take a glance before you throw them away?" Because you never know. And I'm really glad I did because this one actually turned out very nicely! I'll be posting the well-lit flash version in a few days you'll be surprised at how different they look!

This image was taken in February, 2012.