Today morning, when I looked outside, my eyes caught some dew drops shinning with the morning sun on the cherry tomato tree. Took my camera out and took this picture.

I could barely see myself in the dew drop..

The picture was taken using a 50mm prime lens and later cropped to give the close up feeling. f = 11 (to get the larger depth of field in closeup shots), shutter = 1/200 s and ISO = 100. A closeup filter was also used for this shot. Only small cleaning up on the computer.

I was out on the porch yesterday just relaxing and the weather was starting to take a turn. A small patch in the sky caught my eye where I saw rain clouds rushing in, while the same rain clouds were blocking the sun and making an adjacent cloud shine... I ran in, grabbed my camera and took few shots. Here's one of them,

The reason for taking this shot is the contrast between the dark and bright clouds in the nice blue background. Therefore, made sure to underexpose the image using exposure compensation on my Canon T3i (AV mode).