Dew & Refraction Photography

I'll admit that high school science classes were quite a while ago for me but I remember a bit about refraction, better known as the thing that makes a straw in a glass of water look "broken". Refraction photography can be very pretty, though I feel the elements are often staged. One morning at the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens I wandered into one of the shadier paths and sat down to take a photograph of something small. Near the ground I could see that the morning dew was still on some of the plants.

In the biggest water droplet you can almost see the purple plant that was next to this teeny, tiny plant. 

Later I walked into the greenhouse that holds tropical plants and happened to catch a bead of water rolling off the tip of a flower. Inside the droplet you can see a bright pink plant and how green the greenhouse was.

And this is a full-sized photo of the plant you can see in the droplet.

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