"...I have a passion for water drop photography! A macro art form where
you can mold a figure made of liquids, and where each one is totally
unique. This type of photography lets you experience what is usually
invisible to the human eye.
I was born in The Netherlands and currently make my home near London,
Ontario in Canada. Photography has been an interest of mine from an
early age and macro photography has always had a special appeal for me. I
am basically self-taught and learned water drop photography from some
tutorials online. A lot of my water drops posted here were done manually
with a medicine dropper and a good sense of timing. The more complex
forms are now done by using Mumford's Time Machine and the Drip Kit
which allow me to create some very unique and fascinating figures. The
colours I use come from food dyes and various flash gels. The forms of
the water and milk shapes are pure and unedited.
I have made some discoveries in water drop photography, one of them
being the unique three drop splash as in "Tiny Dancer". Another is
multiple exposures in water drops. This is where the drops are falling
in the same area but while I am panning the camera, I can get more than
one splash in the same frame, such as my "Liquid Flowers". I pushed the
drip kit to the limits by creating a splash with a bubble-type base
caused by an extra large drop as in "Suspended". I have combined soap
film and water drops simultaneously as well as the water drop/liquid
flow combo as you see in "Coral Sea Dreaming". One method I started
using was to color white milk splashes using colored gels on the flash
guns which made some very colorful forms. I'm always looking for the
unique and trying to come up with something that has never been done
before..."