Doubled

This week’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge is ‘Seeing Double’. Mostly they are talking about reflection, but I’m looking at refraction too.

Out in the garden the other day, there were a lot of droplets, like these ones on the Crocosmia flower buds. If you look closely you can see refracted upside-down images of my house in there!

I love photographing droplets as they’re so delicate, pretty and ephemeral. On the same day as the photos above, I enjoyed capturing the raindrops on the Alchemilla too. On most of these you can see the Alchemilla itself or the rest of the garden refracted in the droplets

And then, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go further off-piste!

When I saw the ‘Seeing Double’ theme I thought of this female Azure Damselfly I photographed last month. There is a double in terms of the fact that she is mating with another damsel, but then she is the one seeing double as another male attempts to join them!

And finally I thought I’d share this image from last weekend which I am really fond of. It’s one of my many Yellow Loosestrife in the garden, and I managed to get the two main open flowers in focus with a lovely blur of yellow from all the other flowers behind them. I love how dream it came out! Hopefully you’ll allow me this as there are many doubles here – double flowers in focus, and doubles upon doubles of this in the blurry yellow background!