Eruption

This photo, unlike some of the others here on Weekly Fifty that were captured in a moment of spontaneity, required a fair bit of planning. My family was visiting Milford Lake in Kansas, the subject of a blog photo from 2013, and while the kids were playing on the beach my brother Tom and I did some experimenting with rocks, water, and photography. I wanted to capture the result of a rock hitting the water, and it took several iterations of the same basic idea in order for this picture to come to fruition. Over the course of many attempts I learned to adjust the angle at which I shot, the overall framing, the method for predicting where Tom would throw a rock, and more details which you can find in the attached audio commentary. After each attempt, my brother would wait patiently while I checked the results on my dim camera LCD screen (I shot with my D200, as usual, because I didn't want to bring my D7100 that close to the water) and then set things up for another try. Incidentally