Rejoicing In The Rain

Today has been a day of sudden rain showers. 

Most people view rain as bad weather, but it depends on your viewpoint. For me it was an opportunity to try out my camera and see what I could do in the early stages.

In this shot I was trying to get the focus on the rain on the window. It took a few attempts to work out where to stand so that I wasn't in the window reflection and to get the actual drops showing, not the background. 

I then went into my photo editor and did a black & white picture.

For this one I used a blurry filter, trying to highlight the central raindrop. 

I found a setting to change the colour. I've not done this before, so thought i'd give it a go. 

Finally, I used an overlay frame to get the transparent sort of frame. 

It's amazing how one simple photo of some raindrops can look so different. I know I still have a long way to go and there's probably a whole lot of other things I could do with this photo alone, but it's a start and I've really enjoyed it. :)