Nice pitchers:
Having been driven mad by the contrast resulting from the intense sun, I unpacked and assembled my
damned unwieldy photographic diffuser. It was a monumental pain
using it on the floating mat, but images without it were nearly useless.
What made things particularly challenging was that the plants I most wanted to photograph were at the deep-water margins of the
mat, where the Sphagnum was the most delicate and treacherous. Even if remaining intact,
the mat would would slowly sink under my weight. One time I spent a few minutes composing my image, just to find that when I
was ready to trigger the shutter that both my feet and the plants had submerged under several cm of water!
It was frustrating, but I did chuckle to watch the plants reemerge from the water
as I retreated from the pond's margin.
Here is an image
without the diffuser, as a useful comparison.
