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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Fluid Artist
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 21:43:29 -0500
References: <CANYyKx_Q96a+qVoQk8JLK191HxLBwHCaNVD7rDUeHQpNDiLuPw@mail.gmail.com>

Beautifully conceived and carried out.? I'm surprised you did not get 
flash reflections.

On 5/18/20 9:14 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> A portion of my job at the university involved providing photo
> illustrations to go along with stories in various publications.
> I strove to catch the viewer's eye so they would read the text.
>
> This art professor built kinetic sculptures using multiple high pressure
> water valves synched with electronic flashes to
> create the illusion of water drops suspended in the air forming artistic
> patterns.  At the time the university was doing a story
> on him, his sculpture was dismantled for shipment to an exhibition, so I
> came up with this publicity photo in the studio
> using a plate of glass sprayed with a mixture of water and Karo syrup (to
> keep the droplets in place).  Lit with multiple
> electronic flashes.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/19910404_MR_Award_PSOA_10009B_9.jpg.html

-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA



In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Fluid Artist)