If you've ever held a water balloon, you probably appreciate the awesome brilliance of its inevitable pop! Cerebrus Constipatus presents high speed rubber-receding photography, Static Impact.
Water's slower than you'd think; in that tiny instant after a pop, the tensed balloon retracts much faster than liquid H2O, the result? A split moment where water seems to defy the laws of physics, high speed photography doesn't get any better than this! The amazing shot above has been captured by a Canon EOS 30D activated combined with a strobe light and a high speed sound trigger, and caused by the impact of a pin blown through a straw.
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Image by Jack Wild
It's hard to comprehend the brilliance of nature with our pitiful senses, however, these photographers have managed to capture it in that split moment where it's at its finest!
The above image captured by Jake Wild, an eighteen year old photography enthusiast, is one of the best examples of the awe and wonder manifested in those split milliseconds. Shot using a Sony DSC-T10, a ultra-compact 7.2 megapixel digital cybershot camera, it captures a single drop of milk as it's absorbed by an oasis of coffee, mini atomic explosions that we miss every morning.
