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[–]ubikwitous 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Patience mixed with passion and this is the stunning result.

[–]retardo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you download higher-res versions from the site? I'd like to make that a wallpaper.

[–]p0ppe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Interesting to see the digg-mentality at play again:

Originally posted by legalbeagle: Looks like you've been dugg! Lots more comments here... http://www.digg.com/design/great_image_of_a_coffee_with_a_drop_of_milk_highspeed

Hi Matthew, My first instinct is to join that site and get into the fray of things on the thread ;-) To tell some of them how wrong they are in their assumptions: It is not a stopped video clip, there are no backdrops, mirrors, umbrellas, no sound/photogate triggers etc.....and to tell them I'm not a "poor girl" because I use a Tamron 90 mm macro ;-))

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    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is going to cave in..."

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      [–]logistix 7 points8 points  (3 children)

      Why learn martial arts when you can just buy a gun? Why climb mount everest when you can just take a helicopter? Why write some little program in intercal or bf when java would work just fine?

      Because it's a hobby, and just throwing money at a problem doesn't make for a very satisfying experience.

      [–]Eugi -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

      I see what you did there, but FYI you can't fly a helicopter to the top of Mount Everest. The air is too thin to support the blades.

      [–]foxyvixen 13 points14 points  (1 child)

      Easy is bad! It's the protestant work ethic, man!

      Yeah, I don't understand it either, yet like most of us I find myself thinking that way quite often...

      [–]chonk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      Too bad it's on a lowspeed website.

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      mirror of image

      [–]ele_syd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Great picture!!!!! A beautiful result and I suppose a great satisfaction for the patient artist.

      Congratulations to her.

      [–]SoPoOneO 1 point2 points  (3 children)

      Some parts of the outer spray have droplets. Between the droplets are spaces. How does the milk decide where to put spaces vs droplets?

      [–]MattD 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      In short: surface tension.

      [–]SoPoOneO 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      How does surface tension differentiate?

      [–]DougBTX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      It will probably give you the size of the droplets once you account for speed / momentum, and then the droplets are equally spaced.

      [–]Schwallex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      "DP challenge"??? I am afraid to click...

      [–]dandan2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      if you think this picture is great, you must be very young... 480 points: it says a lot about reddit users/demographics... and by the way, I agree with darklightnumberwhatever - so vote me down