High-Speed Photography Produces Amazing Images (PHOTOS)

WebUrbanist has a beautiful collection of high-speed photographs. A few samples are below:

Check out a lot more images at WebUrbanist.

Comments

[apoyo]

Why is it all destruction?

[XCITIZEN]

This is your brain on NeoConservatism.

[EquinsuOcha]

I'd like to point out that all these food products were shot from a helicopter out in the wild to protect the caribou.

[cvkathy]

I have a real huge problem with using food for anything other than eating. Duh! There are people on this planet - including right here in the united states - who don't have enough to eat! One has to also wonder just how many articles of perfectly good and edible food or drink were photographed to get the photos that made it to the top. Can't we all stop using food for play?

[DontBanMeBro]

Oh geeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

Calm down. Maybe the stawberry had e-coli, the egg was rotten and the yogurt had been accidentally left out overnight.

FEEL BETTER?!?!?

[wm1066]

I think the violence being done to water should be stopped at all cost!

[jwb]

I knew that strawberry. He had it coming.

[sophieozz]

That's penny-wise thinking and here a little food was sacrificed in the name of art. Big deal. Any freegan or conscious person can tell you about the tons of food wasted by restaurants and food stores on a daily basis. A lot of perfectly good stuff gets thrown out. Then there's food sent to people in need that sits in warehouses because the local warlords won't distribute it.

[MagisterLudi]

Save the Med fly, dude.

[kellygrrrl]

Beautiful!

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

I agree!

[Budokan]

Can we get a high speed photograph of the McCain campaign imploding?

[SaraPulis]

Cool pictures, but I get the feeling that this artist really hates food.

[PSdesert]

This is your brain on Kool-aid..­.

[MikeStrong]

"Produces Amazing Images" ??? Pardon moi - but was the headline writer born yesterday? Is this new generation really so ignorant of Edgerton's work and original strobe pictures? These are mere imitations of Harold Edgerton's work. Nothing original. Nothing new. Just someone re-doing what was new in the 1930's.

If this added something new I would say great, but as a mere imitation ... born yesterday.

Frankly, I just googled to look again at the originals done by Harold Edgerton. They are still better than these. Edgerton had a sense both of purpose to illustrate the uses of strobe and of publicity to know what would look good. Still does. Still the best. These later imitations don't really add anything other than color. Not to mention that these are infinitely easier to do today because Edgerton developed (not invented) the technology originally.

Google up: "harold edgerton photos" to view the far more elegant works by the master (still the master). Or just go to MIT's: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton link

[primordialsoup]

You may be making more of this than it deserves. The headline doesn't say anything about it being "new" or "original". Just "amazing". Thanks for the info about Edgerton, though.

[ESerafina42]

I have to agree with Mike. The IMPLICATION is that this is something never seen before. If the writer is honest and knows his history, he should mention that it isn't new, just pretty cool.

[bail me out]

would love to see a high speed photography of the moral decline of Palin-MCain campaign.

[paixa3]

faster than 'instant'

[ssg13565]

It is nice to see another generation enjoying the photographic techniques pioneered by Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton. Look him up in WikiPedia.

[totalliberal]

Blasting things to pieces with bullets , as art. Only in gun-obsessed America. Weird.

[RatgurlSD]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw a bullet coming through a strawberry & a cup of yogurt.

The water droplet is pretty cool though.

[sparkey]

A good analogy of what lipstick Sarah is doing to the republican party with the picture of the egg. I wouldn't be surprised if it was her hand in the photo.

[doug108]

The hand in the egg photo doesn't appear to be applying any pressure. It's weird.

[Hirudin]

It's possible the egg was shot. There's another picture (in the linked web site) of a cherry tomato (I think) being held by the same hand as a bullet is going through it.

[EuniceX]

I feel sorry for the egg, and the strawberry certainly didn't deserve it. But the yogurt had it comin'.

[wm1066]

LOL!

[unsinkable]

is that third image a drop of pee?