Water-Activated Illustrations by Peregrine Church

Seattle, a city that's known for its rainy weather, is the perfect place where you can find this water-activated interactive artworks, illustrations, and hidden messages that only appear when wet.



Seattle-based artist Peregrine Church (who is often helped by co-conspirators Xack Fischer and Forest Tressider) created these 'Rainworks' series using stencils and non-toxic, environmentally safe and biodegradable water-repellant coating that lasts anywhere from 4 months to year.



"Rainworks are positive messages and art that appear when it rains. Their purpose: To make people smile on rainy days"



"Each rainwork lasts about 4 months to a year, depending on the amount of foot traffic it has to endure. More abrasion means it will fade faster. A rainwork is the most vivid during its first couple of weeks, then slowly becomes more subtle."



"I use Always Dry Wood & Stone. It is not sold in the US, but it is available at http://nanexcompany.eu/ The company that makes it, the Nanex Company, is based out of Belgium. I am currently in talks with them about getting distribution of Always Dry in the United States."

















Check his website: http://rain.works/

High Speed Liquid Photographs by Heinz Maier

German photographer Heinz Maier took these delicate high speed water droplets photography.



















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Water Art by Markus Reugels

German photographer Markus Reugels creates these beautiful liquid sculptures using no more than an sony SLR camera with flash and a glimpse catcher, and an arduino-based timing device.



"I have a passion to taking pictures of Water drops. It so fascinating what shapes simple water drops can built !"



"At the Beginning I made my Water drops with a medicine dropper, a remote trigger in one hand and a cup in the other hand. With the cup I catch the falling drops, so that the water surface in the tray is very still (this is necessary to get a reflection, with a low Camera angle). I pull the cup out of the way and let 2-3 drops fall into the tray, when the first drop collide into the water I press the Trigger. With this technique I have 1 keeper out of 10 (in good times)."



"Now, I adjust all parameters exactly with a microprocessor, to have the most possible control over the water. This was the key to realize such complex images. In some of my pictures I synchronize 3 different colored drops with an air rifle, or air stream."



"Normally I start every series with a picture in my head. But this is very rare to reach. The shapes cannot be calculated so i must take what i get. With lots of patience, i know in which way i must adjust the settings to influence the shapes."



"The only thing you can control is the light and the Colors."



"To bring color into the picture is very easy. To bring color into the splash, I dyed the drop water with food-color or ink. The background or water surface is colored with the light."



"Normally I thicken my water with Guargum to increase the viscosity . I want a similar Viscosity as Milk or Cream. This helps to make smoother shapes and they hold longer together before they collapse. Sometimes I use only Milk , this is the best fluid for the droplets, you can bring Color into the Splash without coloring the Water, try only gels on the flash and the Milk will be colored."



"As Flashes, I use only the old Vivitar 285 with a little modification to set the Power lower than 1/16. Aperture around f/16 is used. This is the best compromise between sharpness and diffraction blur. The Shutter speed is not important in Highspeed Photography, the Action is frozen by the fast flash. The Flashes have a flash duration faster than 1/20000 at low power settings."



"No Camera has a shutter fast as the Flashes. I choose a Shutter Speed of 1/160 , but only for the wireless trigger. It work best with these settings!"



"Everything I know about photography is self-thought."













All images are © Copyright of Markus Reugels

Check his website: www.markusreugels.de/ and http://500px.com/MarkusReugels

Source: photigy

Liquid Drop Art by Corrie White

Photographer Corrie White creates beautiful images of perfectly timed and captured splash.



"To get a good water drop shape, I can get one almost immediately, however, these days, to get something new and unique it will take a lot longer than before. How far can it go to get something different? A lot of what I shoot I already have on my computer so I don’t keep many. I hope for something totally unique, so I experiment with liquid additives, colors and settings and test the system to the limits to see what else is there that I don’t already have in my archives."



"I started doing drops manually with a medicine dropper. After a year I moved on to electronics with the Time Machine and Drip Kit. After a couple of weeks working with this, I came up with the first three drop water shape which had never been done before and from this came a lot of new shapes in the world of water drops."



"I then started using guar gum as a water thickener to stabilize the liquid which worked very well. I now use xanthan gum which is similar to guar gum. As a surfactant to reduce water tension, I found Nature Clean lotion which worked wonders for the shapes and again, allowed me to discover even more new water sculptures."



"At the moment I am using four Yongnou flashes. Speedlite flashes are the most common for this type of photography. You need flashes that can give you a burst of light at approximately 1/25,000th of a second. This is what freezes the motion in high speed photography."





















Check her website: www.liquiddropart.com

Source: inktechnologies

Liquid Flowers by Jack Long

Milwaukee-based photographer Jack Long creates gorgeous liquid flowers out of colored paint droplets (from the mixture of water, thickener, pigment and dye) captured in mid-air with a high-speed camera for his “Vessels and Blooms” series.



“Wanted to advance my fluid suspension/high speed photography to a higher level. I created the liquid Vase in the autumn of 2011. I worked on creating the floral forms and leaves through the winter and put it all together Spring 2012. All of my images, unless otherwise noted are single capture events. I do not use photoshop to create composited images. What you see is what occurred in that single exposure.”





"Photoshop is only used to 'clean up' the image and to enhance the image with basic tools."





“This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing. Hundreds of captures are made in testing and then many more during the actual final capture stage. A very few stand out as being the best.”





"I love working with liquids because of their incredible versatility when creating high speed photography. It is as much chance as it is preparation and planning. They are all different."



"I like to use a lot of colours, variations and mixes of red, blue and yellow and green. The work takes a great amount of planning, set building and testing."



"What I like the most is that my work is so unique from other splash or liquid photography. The main goal is to create something truly original."

All images are © Copyright of Jack Long

Check his website: http://jacklongphoto.carbonmade.com/

Source: dailymail.co.uk