my planet is mostly water, my body is mostly water. i love snow and rain and fog and mist . . . and even freezing rain and sleet i can find beautiful. perhaps that is why i also find the photography of martin waugh so captivating.
using extremely high-speed photography, waugh sets the stage by placing dyes and other materials in water and then lets the water do its own thing. apparently other than some use of photoshop to crop, adjust color and contrast, remove unwanted droplets, and clean up the background, he doesn't “substantially alter the veracity of the image”.
it takes waugh on average one hundred shots to get “the one”. he reckons he has taken over twenty thousand shots of water droplets. camera buffs may wish to know that he uses top-of-the-line canon cameras for this work.
to see his work, here’s where you want to start - an index of images, each of which captures a water droplet magically frozen in mid air or dispersing across water, and filled with the most extraordinary colours! here's where you'll find such a thing - the liquid sculpture gallery.
some very large versions of martin’s photography have been very generously provided at the photoshop support site.
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hey thanks for your generous words thomas, that's very kind of you!
i popped "google translate" down at the bottom of my sidebar when i realized that most of my readers were coming from countries where english is not the first language.
i hope that that helps.
steven
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