(f/18, 30secs, 14mm, ISO-100, 02/08/2008)

Sometimes pictures develop long after you've stopped fiddling with them. I hear DJ's talking about a record being a "grower, not a show-er" occasionally. I guess the same can be true for a photograph.

Anyway, this photograph was taken in early August. At the time I thought it was OK, maybe a decent example of slow shutter speeds making water a bit like smoke. But it kind of left me cold.

When it came time to send pictures away to print, this was number 30 of 30, just making it in because 30 seemed like a nice round number for printing and I was kind of curious about what it would look like.

In the Peoples Photography exhibition, it just slipped onto the list because I had space for one more portrait image.

And people liked it. Probably more than me.

Then this week, I found myself having to select an image for a digital presentation competition (images presented via projector rather than as prints or slides) and once again this kind of slipped past me and into the selected pile.

Then it slipped past the judges and into their submissions pile.

I look at it now, and where it originally left me cold, it now leaves me calm. Maybe that's why it's growing on me. Maybe that's what other people feel when they see it. I've certainly no idea.