Recently, I had the exciting opportunity to photograph a race car collection at The Collings Foundation in Stow, MA. They are a great organization that collects, restores, and actively flys and drives these amazing, historic aircraft and vehicles. They have the only actively flying B-24 Liberator bomber from WWII in the world.My grandfather Harold Simmons, who was a B-24 pilot in the big war, loved and frequently visited the foundation and got to know them. Eventually, they flew him and my grandmother from New Hampshire to Worcester, MA in that Liberator, making him one of the happiest men alive. When he recently passed away, they made it a point to repeatedly buzz his ...

I'd picked up a macro lens and was eager to use it on something unique. In the past, I'd played around with water droplet photography a bit but without the macro and hi-speed strobe, I couldn't really achieve what I was looking for. Now, with some of the proper equipment, I could give it a go and see what happens.I created a setup using a couple speedlights and a fixed, braced eyedropper. Then with some painstaking focusing and depth of field work I was ready to take the first exposure. Holy cow! It worked!!! Here's the result of my first hour of shooting:     Here's a second droplet splashing off the top of the first droplet: Odd and intriguing shapes took ...