Eons, one second at a time
by pikus

Comment:

Originally posted by FotoPhool: Nice abstract shot, but I don't understand how it relates to speed.

It's a stop-motion shot of a drop of water splattering on a stalagmite in a cave. Takes a fraction of a second for the drop to fall. The rock is built up by these drops, what you see took few thousand years to build. So it's both very fast and very slow speeds in the same subject.

Oh, and the lighting is limited to however I can bounce the flash from the rocks around, without the flash (or the flashlight which is useless for photo) it's pitch-dark.

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by pikus

Comment:

Originally posted by twmax: Wow, really great! You were in the right place at the right time for this one. Too bad they couldn't fly a little closer together;-)

They are supposedly 18" apart, measuring from wingtips. I can't drive my car that close to anything :)