See them here.
I like #14: “The blue crayon was spared by my low power pellet rifle.” It’s like a crayon Auschwitz!
#8 is cool, too, with the pellet sliced clean in half by the razor blade.
See them here.
I like #14: “The blue crayon was spared by my low power pellet rifle.” It’s like a crayon Auschwitz!
#8 is cool, too, with the pellet sliced clean in half by the razor blade.
Whoa. Incredibly cool. The guy is a real artist, too, in his backgrounds and object choices.
I love high speed photography. Great stuff.
Also check out Time Warp.
I came in to mention Time Warp
Great show.
That walnut one squicks me out a bit, but I’m not sure why.
Cool, though.
Walnuts do resemble little dessicated brains-in-skulls a bit.
My favorite high speed (really, really high speed) picture is one of Doc Edgerton’s atomic bomb photos (here
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456
with a really good explanation of the camera used.
The others in the series are here -
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bomb.html
Reminds me of this commercial, which I saw in the British Ad Awards showcase:
Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.
It’s slow-motion filming of bullets going through a series of everyday objects – a bottle of ketchup, a melon, an apple, etc. Very striking.
For some reason the pellet split with a razor blade looks fake - maybe because the flanges should have split it’s path further. Anyway, if one looks fake they all start to look a bit suspect…
[BTW, that makes me sound like a moon hoax diverging shadows nutcase ha ha!!!]
Truly great shots. I wonder who cleans up the mess.
Did anyone else have a “Whoa!” moment when the last “target image” appeared?
Mine was more like “YES!!!” and then “Damn it.”
:::Crickets Chirping:::
Funny thing is, I look at these photos and think about everything I’ve ever heard about “exit wounds” being so much bigger than “entry wounds.” Of course, we don’t see the ultimate result, but these photos don’t seem to bear that out.
Keep in mind, I’ve never actually attended a homicide autopsy.
First those objects are things like grapes and tomatoes that don’t exactly get wounded. And they are soft and small and easy to shoot through. A bullet going through a human body has to go through fat, bone, muscle, water, tissue, organs, etc. It’s enough to slow it down and make it tumble on its axis as it makes its way through.
Also those aren’t even bullets but small, compact pellets. Compare to these .44 magnum rounds. Now imagine one of those bullets entering a body straight on, but exiting at an angle. That’s where the “exit wounds are larger” thing comes from.
#7 is stunning. The crisp fractal blue against a glowing orange is very pleasing.
I also thought it interesting that in #14 the CR of the yellow Crayon matches up with the AYOLA of the blue Crayon. Cool.
The pictures were great. Alan’s comments I could have done without.
#17 I think is the winner for me, look at the jelly still clinging to the pellet, you can see the spin on the pellet as the jelly is twisting along with it…very cool
I think any of those christmas ornament shots would make excellent christmas cards.
I started a thread a long time ago showing some of these, but I can’t find it now.