There’s an old adage that says if your photo isn’t interesting, you just didn’t get close enough! This is an image of ice melting off a car roof. I shot it last winter in front of my mechanic’s garage.

The image was captured with my Canon Rebel XT and a Canon 28-135 image stabilized zoom. I was about 1.5 feet away from the action, zoomed all the way out. As it was a bright sunny day (hence the ice melting), I was able to shoot at a high enough shutter speed to catch a drip.

When you see shots like this, you don’t often realize that the photographer may have taken fifty shots before he got one he liked! That’s where the burst mode comes in handy–just hold the shutter release down and the images are captured rapidfire (3 frames per second).