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Category:Objects
Subcategory:Close-ups
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Keywords:bird on the water, macro photography, water drop, waterdrop, waterdrops
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Dimensions2315 x 2946
Original file size2.37 MB
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Bird of the Water

Bird of the Water

This is the first bird shaped drop I've ever captured. In water drop photography, there are many surprises, as the drops don't always land in the same place and have the same shape.
(This is a Worthington water drop, named after A.M. Worthington, who helped pioneer high speed photography and wrote many papers on the subject, one of which was a study of milk splashes.
The jets are four to six inches tall, and are in the portrait, or vertical orientation. These Worthington jets are often three drop collisions. This is where the second water drop is closely following on the heels of the first drop. The second drop reaches the pool of water, just as the first drop has created a crater in the pool, which then both drops crown, and then shoot up very tall and fast, like a roller coaster. The third drop then falls on top of both drops. In this case, the third drop didn't land exactly on top of the first two, and has slid off to the side, resulting in the shape you see here).