hardandsoft

We are sometimes asked to define the reasons for taking a picture. It’s not necessarily easy to explain in coherent sentences something that occurs intuitively. In this case, the motion and sound of something that I see and hear daily and usually ignore invited scrutiny. Photographers often take closer looks at ordinary things and sometimes see something more. The different shapes and textures of the round drain and the vertical column of water, the action of their collision, and the resultant formation of bubbles in agitation was enough visual stimulation for me to attempt a photograph of this ordinary occurrence. I used an Apple iPhone 7 Plus for a camera because it could fit in a tight space easily. Its flash provides a pinpoint light source that in this case creates a hard shadow of a soft element, and I like that. Is this a still life?