As a photographer for the Marblehead Weekly News, I spend a lot of time driving from assignment to assignment and in and out of town.

I’ve come to look at my windshield as a camera’s viewfinder, framing the world around me. It offers the perfect frame of the sunset lighting up the sky and the waves crashing over the causeway. It captures the snippets of life as I drive through Old Town.

But the other day it surprised me. I was struck by the way the water droplets had gathered on my windshield during this week’s rain, and I suddenly realized that my viewfinder was now a canvas. 

I spent longer than I’d care to admit running my iPhone (in macro mode) up and down my windshield looking for the perfect water droplets. The longer I looked, the more interesting abstracts I found!

I hope you enjoy these abstracts of water droplets as much as I do and remember to pause and take in the little things in life.