Night Rain - backlit tree in autumn night rain Acrylic Print

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"Night Rain" - backlit tree in autumn night rain
A few nights ago, as the rain was falling steadily, I noticed that the still-clinging yellow leaves of the hackberry tree in our front yard, along with the rivulets shedding off, were nicely backlit by our (too bright) street light. I set up a tripod and took a few long exposures to capture the motion of drops/rivulets along with the colorful backlit leaves and here is an example - this one just shy of a one second exposure. When I used longer-yet exposures, the leaves would blur from their motion in the breeze and from droplets hitting them.

Image captured 11/4/22 with Pentax K-1 and DA*300mm lens.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...