Drips by Sterling Ruby

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Bottoms up! Photos by Jan Tervooren

These spilled milk bowls will bring only smiles and you can find them in my Thinx Gifts store.

Vibrant liquid macro photography by Michael Suppan

Photos by Peter Jamus

Oil drops captured by macro photographer Vendula Adriana Kaprálová Hauznerová

Drop by Dan Webb

Markus Reugels captures amazingly complex liquid forms using high speed photography

Water Pond 3 is from Elizabeth Turk’s marble sculpture series Nature Memorials. 

Charybdis by William Pye is an installation with a spinning vortex that can be observed from multiple levels.

About the piece:

The sirens Charybdis and Scylla resided in the Sicilian Sea. Homer tells us that because Charybdis had stolen the oxen of Hercules, Zeus struck her with a thunderbolt and changed her into a whirlpool whose vortex swallowed up ships. In Charybdis the circular movement of water inside a transparent acrylic cylinder forms an air-core vortex in the centre. Steps wrap around the cylinder and allow spectators to view the vortex from above. 

How it works:

An air-core vortex is generated within a circular dish. Water rises and falls within the dish in a cyclic program of water activity. When the system is full and flowing over the perimeter and down the sides, the top surface is comparatively flat and smooth, only broken by the vortex in the middle. However, as the level drops, the body of water seems to take on a life of its own, increasingly rocking and swaying as its volume diminishes unaided by any outside force.

High speed photography captures the moments immediately after water balloons burst.

Liquids by Jakob Wagner

The waterfalls and river streams of Armenia appear almost otherworldly in these long exposure photos from Suren Manvelyan’s Water series.

Bleigiessen by Heatherwick Studio.

About the project:

The Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity, commissioned the studio to design a sculpture for the atrium of its new headquarters. The site for the sculpture was within an eight-storey high atrium space above a pool of water…

The vertiginous quality of this space, coupled with the presence of water, suggested the idea of exploring ways of capturing the dynamic shapes of falling liquids. Following extensive experimentation, pouring molten metal into water was found to create extraordinary and complex forms in a fraction of a second. No two experiments produced the same result. Over four hundred of these were produced before a five centimetre piece was created and selected as it was felt it would work well with the building and is the basis of the final thirty metre project.

This original piece was digitised and exactly replicated using 142,000 glass spheres suspended on 27,000 high tensile steel wires; 15 tonnes of glass and just under a million metres of wire. The spheres, made in Poland in a spectacle lens factory, were the result of a collaboration with Flux Glass, their shifting colour and brightness coming from a layer of dichroic film set between the two hemispherical lenses that make up each sphere.

500px user николай nick23 does incredible things with liquids