I’ve always liked the look of frozen water. Oh, I don’t mean ice, and I certainly don’t mean ice sculptures, although sometimes the latter can can produce some pretty clever results – temporarily, at least. I mean liquid water frozen in time by a high speed camera.

Digital cameras are startlingly fast, but I grew up with film cameras prone to blurry pictures if you didn’t have a steady hand. The high end cameras of my youth that could clearly capture a drop of water rebounding from the surface of water were only seen in science magazines. Now photographers like Michael Melgar recreate the water droplet effect as original works of digital art.

Part of the beauty of such frozen water is in the fact that we don’t see these images of nature in real life. Our eyes and brains aren’t fast enough to appreciate any particular nanosecond of an ocean wave’s break, processing how the natural light is beautifully distorted in the water and how the water itself appears to freeze with glass-like hardness into a never-to-be-recreated arabesque form. But Hawaiian photographer Clark Little does it all the time.

Manipulating water is another approach to creating original frozen water images. In 1948, Salvador Dali posed for a Philippe Halsman portrait using suspended furniture, tossed cats, and water thrown from a bucket. Today, photographer Shinichi Maruyama uses similar techniques to create his own amazing frozen water shapes.

Frozen Droplet by Michael Melgar	Hawaiin Wave by Clark Little
Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman	Liquid Circle by Shinichi Maruyama

Now I want to see some of this work in 3-D.

Six-Eye Jackson

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