Paint Splash Photography
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I’ll start by saying that there are no Photoshop tricks in these images; the only adjustments done are for the regular exposure/contrast stuff. I have a small write up on how I did this just below the photos.
The setup consists of a small computer speaker, in which I removed the protective foam and covered the front in black thin exercise rubber. I then sat this on a table with the speaker facing upwards. From here, I had a flash at 45 degrees from the camera and set to the lowest output for a short flash duration. This helps in freezing the motion of the drops. Then, I would put 2 or 3 drops of different coloured paint on the rubber and when I was ready, play a short burst of low frequency bass noise. I did this maybe 40 times while taking photos each time before I had a few shots I liked. You want to ensure that you have a small enough aperture in order to have enough depth of field to capture the majority of drops in focus.
Beautiful…just beautiful.
took the words right out of my mouth
incredible. this is so creative; love your work.
Wow.
Really amazing photos! Thanks for reading my blog as well
So very cool. You’re quite inventive!
This reminds me of Neil Harbisson’s “color-listening” creations. I think you’ll get a kick out of his Ted Talk lecture (not to mention the fact that he looks like Don Johnson in ‘Miami Vice’) http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html
This is my favorite !!! well not really, but these are amazing photography!
This stuff is SICK!!!!! Def my favorite!!
Absolutely amazing! (I need to figure out how to properly use my Canon so I can take shots like these. That, and light painting! ^_^ )
Pretty cool! Being a photographer myself I find it tempting to try, just too many other things to do.
Thanks for sharing.
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This is awesome!
You make me believe that everything is alive and dancing to the beat of joy!!!
Great shots.
Has someone been watching The Big Bang Theory recently??!! Cool image!
Thought the same thing just saw that episode
Fabulous! Amazing what appears to be a little universe of color all it’s own!
that is amazing!!!
these are awesome! such a creative idea!
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Dude you come up with the coolest stuff! Great work!
I adore these photos, they are insanely happy!
Who would have thought sound could look so good!
awesome colors, great work
That is very cool and very innovative. I really like the final result.
what an amazing and colorful work!!!! great idea and inventiveness!
Dynamic rainbow – awesome!
I absolutely love your photography
Wow. Spectacular photos!
Pretty freaking dope!!!!
These are beautiful.
I LOVE THEM!!!!
I need to pick one!!!!
Those are vey cool! I really liked it!
Wow! this is gorgeous! I love it!
holy guacamoley! this is so good!!!
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Great work all around. Very creative. Thank you for allowing us to take a glimpse through your lens.
Stunning as always!
Your photos amaze me constantly!
The interplay of color and shape hypnotizes my eyes. I want to keep studying the print for more texture, more surprises. Love it!
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I love these! And I so appreciate your description of how you got the shot. I would love to try this sometime.
They’re great!!
Incredible! I want to buy the whole set and redecorate a room around them.
Love these. Great job & very creative!
Amazing splash pics – I’ve tried this before and know how difficult it is to get something good!
These are amazing images, Patrick! I love your work!
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The colours are just exquisite, really!! U even explained the steps.. Photoshop can’t do this. Honestly so strong. Well.
Your work is brilliant and pleasing! I love that you have a willing to share your knowledge as a way to teach others- this captures the quality of your photographs even more: uniqueness!
willingness*
Awesome and very, very cool!
Coooool! And thanks for following my blog.
Rachel
Timeless perfection.
Fantastic idea and photos! So creative. I love the fact that something visual comes out of something audial.
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How can you not like these photos it’s just crazy what people can catch in photo. I love these photo they seem simple yet complex.
Thanks Toad
Absolutely amazing.
Wow! Very creative and striking images you got there. Very well done. I just would hate to have to do the clean-up after the shots
New weekend project!
So creative. These pictures have this cool outer space vibe.
AMAZING!
Wonderful. So, so beautiful.
Holy hec. Those are incredible.
So damn creative and beautiful!
very cool, I love the bright colors!
I’d give it a go except I just know I’d get paint all over my lens! Beautiful pictures.
Awesome and impressive… Wow.
Quit making my pictures look so bad! Haha, I can’t take it anymore. They’re consistently way too good. I realized today you can purchase them on Smugmug- now all I have to do is pare down the long list of ones I want…
Love the third and fourth images
As always, fabulous photos.
WOW! And the splashes ressemble musical notes, quavers, semibreves…such genius!
Very creative and impressive!
That looks such messy fun. Photography’s Jackson Pollock.
Amazing!
This is genius!! I never would have thought to “add some bottom” to photography! =D
These are beautiful!
These colours appear to have life. Amazing!
The colors are beautiful!
I have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog nominations award, Congratulations’!
On a personal note these photos are truly amazing. Lost Lamb
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Do you take payment via paypal?
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Awesome!
The physicistin my brain tries to reconsruct how the different patterns are formed. That doesn’t make these photographs less amazing to me; I think it just makes me all the more susceptible to this kind of art
This is really cool! I’ve always wanted to try doing something like this. There’s a (very creative) tv commercial here in Australia for a tomato pasta sauce in a jar and the way they make the sauce is using fresh tomatoes and HUGE speakers – these photos reminded me so much of that. It’s my favourite commercial ever (here it is if I make no sense http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq9BTgKCvD4).
Anyway, before I got excited about speakers and tomatoes, I meant to ask you what lens you used for this – I’m guessing either the 24mm or 35mm 1.4??
I want to be you! Love all bits , what do the missed shots look like?
Incredible. Your really really good! Your blog is great! I wish I was on those hikes with you! I love doing adventures like that!
(Thanks for following my unusual blog) I had the strangest reaction to the picture of you.
I’m a wanna be photographer- I enter my photos on a site called Pixoto.com You would do really well on there. It’s a contest- you can win money if your as good as you happen to be- otherwise- it is an effective way to get your work seen by a lot of people. This is my profile page on there http://www.pixoto.com/janna.morrison.10 I’m only good at photographing Butterfly Koi. I only started taking the abstract photos when I ran out of fish photos to enter. Click “images” at the top of the page to access the rest of the site. Its global and free.
Amazing. You’re pictures are seriously art.
really, really cool – this and the sheet music through the water droplets. thanks for explaining how you do it as well, aspiring photographers find it enormously helpful!
Gorgeous!
Excellent work!
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God, all these incredible photos!!! #eyegasm
I love them, so colorful!
This is just too cool!
Pure joy!
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In agreement with everyone else of how amazing these shots are the colour the capturing of the drops is beautiful. Do you tire of always being complimented?
Thank you for stopping my site, it’s a pleasure each time I see you have taken the time to visit.
Fascinating!
great photos,great ideas..your a genius..awesome..
I’m addicted to colors…..Such a great display.
Never stop what you do!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Looks like this was a lot of fun. At least they look like FUN! So I hope it was more fun than work, or that you enjoyed the work because it was so much fun . . .
Wow! These are stunning!
Really cool!
Love these! The colors are awesome!!
INCREDIBLE!! I absolutely love these!!
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That is so darn cool!
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Awesome work!
Just can say AMAIZING!
That’s so cool!
OMG. Tickles my being.
Awesome Idea, grett pics. I love your photos.
Very vibrant! Nice!
very cool!
Awesome paint drops in action. Great photos all through the site. Wow. Eye candy for someone who will never be able to do what you are doing.
Amazing photography! Loved your blog
WOW! This looks amazing!
I so enjoy your explanations of how you get these shots! I do a fair amount of photography, but primarily to use in montages, so nothing like this. Your balance of technical skill and artistry is really impressive!
Interesting story+ colorful pictures+ wonderful creatures = incredible post!
This is amazing. Wish I weren’t a broke college student so I could buy some of your prints!
Wow. These are incredibly beautiful.
Awesome images! My first reaction when first seeing these would be that they’ve photoshoped. It makes me appreciate them even more when they are not.
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Continue the nice work,
Jean
These photos (and all the others on your site) are truly incredible. Whenever I finally pursue my curiosity about photography, this will surely be one of my first stops for practical inspiration. Awesome! Thanks for the follow, by the way.
this is so freaking awesome!! nice work!!
Cool, did you see the Episode on Big Bang where they do something similar with a speaker? So funny, I love those guys. Not as fun though since they didn’t use color. Thanks for giving the details on the shoot, that’s generous of you.
SOOO AMAZING!! Thanks for visiting my blog, Patrick! Excellent work, too. Keep it up! I will definitely be back to see what you’ve been shooting!
OMG! That is so beautiful
You have the gift of visual expression. Thank you for reading my MurphyorMel blog and leading me to you.
Melissa
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Absolutely stunning images.
Wow, very cool. How did you come up with the idea?
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Whoooooooooooh! That is soooo radical, yo~
So beautiful! I wouldn’t mind having one of those on my wall.
Paint in outer space … amAzing
yeah, with planets and all!!
This is truly AMAZING !!!
Hey Patrick, I just realized that I am friends with your girlfriend on Tumblr. Small world! Oh, and lovely, lovely pictures!
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Another stimulating addition to your collection of fluid form!
This reminded me almost immediately of the physic of sound we learnt of many years back.
Have you heard or seen it before, I am sure you have, but just in case here are some links.
It would be VERY interesting to see you incorporate these in your work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at50acNlke8 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4shodbQMcmM&feature=related – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU84ckD1AcA&feature=related
Enjoy!
morning chill
comforting for eyes and soul!
Wow. Just… wow.
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Wow… Can’t say anything but Wow!!!
Very cool!
wow.. clever and amazingly done!
That is amazing love them!!
This is amazing!!! what creativity and what talent!! love it!!
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The bright colours and their dynamism, against the static, dense and pitch black background, make these pictures so powerful. Really admire this photographer’s work.
wow this is awesome!!!!!!!
speechless just amazing
Really, really, cool.
That is very abstracty. I love it.
This is so cool.
Wow.
Amazing photos!
holy incredible! these are fantastically stunning…
{i just showed my kids these shots and they want to try this!!! eek.}
Patrick, Your hard work and knowledge of photography paid off. Fabulous, utterly fabulous!
I love Paint Splash Photography and have always wanted to try it. They mixture of colors you have are so outstanding and organic. Nicely Done!
This looks so cool! I’d love to be able to take shots that awesome one day!
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I enjoyed visiting your site. I admire your industry as a photographer, as well as your obvious talent.
Patrick,
I’ve added a link on my blog to yours 
Your shots are simply wonderful! These last ones certainly put a smile on my face
Cheers,
Leticia
As you see, the Paint Splash’s are a HIT! Love this!
waaawww its so awesome !! how you can catch the moment like this ?
These pictures are simply incredible. I definitely want to try this technique out!
great image
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Keep smiling! Mich
Absolutely amazing!!!!
Beautiful splashes of color!! Great work!
Gorgeous!
i’ve always been a huge fan of this!
this i sooooooo amazing and easy to captivate the mind -
Incredible color and detail.
brilliant!!
These are wonderful. <3
Your pictures are awesome!! Truly awesome!!
These are amazing – do you take custom color orders?
Brilliant! Physics at its finest!
I absolutely love this photography! It’s such a great mix of color, art, and your uniqueness. So wonderful, thanks for sharing this!
Wow, they look amazing!
Impressive photos.
Interesting subject and technique. Thanks for sharing.
absolutely beautiful pictures! you’ve got a new follower! btw thanks for the like on my blog.
Wow, amazing pictures Patrick. I shared this on my facebook page. And thanks for the follow up.
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I Love the Splash of Colors
So cool and fun!!!
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this one feels like creation- the cosmos forming- LOVE it!
I love the colors!!!!
SO SO SO SO SO COOL!
These are incredible … I feel alive just looking at them. GREAT JOB!
So cool! Brilliant idea and colours!
Wow these are beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing
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Beautiful!!!
Wow!! Only too bad of the small spot on the last photo, on the right upper side.
I LOVE THIS!!
I have no words. The colors are just stunning.
Hey! how amazing! I love this! i love the creativity you provide us!!! ive said it before, ill probably say it many many times! you are very talented patrick! i wish you had time to reply the comments so that i could have a conversation with you! you seem interesting!!
good job! keep it coming!
breath holding
really really fabulous …. amazing
Lovely. And it looks so fun to do!
Thanks for sharing with us.
WOW! I love the colors in these…and what a great idea for giving the paint a goose and making it jump! I’m going to try to re-blog this to my SuzyTakesPictures blog. I am a rank amateur with a new Nikon D5100 and am hoping to eventually learn enough about it to post my own photos. In the meantime, I try to post innovative or unusual things that are related to photography.
These are gorgeous! The method you used reminds me of an episode of the Big Bang Theory.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow! You are an amazing artist. You’ve got a new follower, for sure.
You’ve heard it umpteen gazillion times — but — that is so cool!
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Aren’t these incredible?
I use the wonderful adjectives everyone else above me has used…….and just say beautiful, gorgeous, creative,…….think I need to get my dictionary to find more wonderful adjectives for this!!
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I love these photos—the color and movement of the paint delight me.
I am in AWE!!!!! Beautiful, just beautiful. Great job!
What a creative mind….turning out amazing images!
Whoa. F**king AWESOME! Ahem… it was the most appropriate superlative?
This is incredible! Well done!
Awesome ! Simply awesome !
Wow! Fantastic idea! I really like how these turned out!!!
Crazy awesome!!(: This is an AMAZING piece.
Awesome! Takes a creative person to even come up with the idea to do this. Good job!
I love SEEing the world through your eyes!!! What a beautiful blessing you are to us all!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Wow, this is incredible. Seriously blown away.
I wanted to say thanks for following my blog. Also, that you have amazing talent! Very impressed.
I am in awe of how beautiful these paint splash photos are. So perfectly shot! Wow! – BLACKSENSUALITY
M&Ms… they remind me of colorful M&Ms. Sorry that sounded quite lame, but how can thinking of M&Ms not make one feel good?
Simply amazing…
Awesome! I don’t normally like abstract, but this I love! Wicked colours
Gorgeous.
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Very ingenious photography!!!!
Wonderful colours and shots!
vraiment beau (really charming)
Great pictures and wonderful colors.
Really cool.
Seeing sound…awesome!
They look like candy. It makes me want to lick my screen!
‘supernatural’ … in one word
Oh my goodness, these are amazing. Never seen anything like this before.
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Great shots!!! They look like dancing.
These are absolutely gorgeous!
this really IS amazing. I hope I find time to try it sometime.
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This is completely amazing.
Will find time to try this soon.
These look awsome!!!
this is amazing! one of the coolest setups, processes, and end results! so rad!
This is so cool
What fun and cheerful images these simple colored drops make! Loved the shots!
Thanks for the like.
Your pics are incredible! My fave are the zebra & the gorilla. Such emotion.
Wow Patrick….I love these abstract art pics!……Ingenious!….They are unique, interesting and amazaferrificly fantabulous!…:)……continue to tap into and share your wealth talents…….glad my post re: ‘Morning Thoughts of God” was a blessing to you……..all the best!…….Kim
Love these…they are really amazing and well worth the effort of the set up
Just want to say that I absolutely love that you do not use Photoshop to alter your images. You have skill, my friend. Well done.
This is incredible! Such fun work, bravo!
Wow!! This is super cool mate!!!
OMG – Colour is my middle name and these… GORGEOUS!
Love this photo! Artistic genius.
Wow! Amazing
I love it! Very unique methods. Makes me want to get another camera.
So nice
This has to be my favourite!
Love your creativity and your colors!
My favorite so far… breathtaking.
These are FANTASTIC… I’m like a kid I guess in that colorful things attract my attention. I love your creativity!
Beauty!
hiii
Fun, Patrick!
Absolutely stunning. Really, these are so creative and lovely to look at. It makes me want to re-design a room in a house centered around these photos!
so pretty…
It is Visual Music ………
so pretty i love it!
these are SO beautiful!!!! I can’t stop looking!
Great! Thanks for posting these pics.
I love to go through your posts. There are always really cool technical shots, and I´m a big fan of your explanations. Thanks!
Holy crap, dude. I was about to ask what kind of camera you use, but I see you’ve got all that information on a separate page. So thanks, that’s really convenient. I’d love to get into photography, but I don’t think I could ever come up with something like these ones, they way you shot them. Which kind of makes me sad, but great job, anyway.
Wow! That’s soooo great! Super idea and wonderful shots. Love it!
so clever..
That´s extremely likable, wonderful , playful and creative. I would not think of the method even if I would live milions of years. I love these pics so much!
love your work. the colours are beautiful
WOW Patrick you have so many awesome photos!! you need a like button under each one!
I would like to thank you for visiting my site and for liking my work!!
awesome!
This is so wonderful! I like the pink and blue paint mix photo!
These look so awesome! What a great idea!
BJ xx
This is amazing – thanks for sharing!
Amazing!! A very brilliant idea!!
Wow! Gorgeous shots and so creative!
That seriously is amazing!
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Good grief, Patrick! This is the very first time I ever saw a thousand people clicking “Like”! I understand why they did when I look at the photographs here. I get really weary of looking at kittens, and sunsets, and I’m not all that into landscapes either. You show a real variety of subjects. It is very generous of you to explain the technique. I see your delightful face on my blog and I smile. Thank you for visiting! Granny
SO COOL!!!!!
Wow, PERIOD. Thank you Sir for being Professional.
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These photos are so sweet Patrick. Love the colours as they mix and bounce. I enjoyed reading how you did it as well. It is like a magician telling you how a trick works. : )
I am happy looking at these. You share joy in your work. Thanks!
Extraordinary shot
I’ve been meaning to stop by and check out your blog (that, after you have kindly visited two of mine, already!). Clearly, I have been missing out – your photography is fantastic!
You are a super gifted and creative artist! Love your stuff!
It’s a party of colors! Awesome.
Brilliant.
Your photography is sensational. I do hope the national media pick this up, because it deserves a huge audience. Well done.
fun images, full of energy.
amazing
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Pretty cool!
This is awesome!! Thank You!
This is amazing and beautiful! That was such an innovative idea to do that! (and thanks for following my blog!)
wow!!!!:) awesome:)
Fab!
beautiful! I was just looking at this concept with salt the other day – the salt changes pattern on the sheet to show the geometries of the different frequencies. Love how the paint dances to the frequencies here.
Amazin’
Wow, this looks amazing. I always wondered how the photographers do this trick. Thanks for sharing the secret.
I am in love with these shots. Beautiful!
i really love rainbows and colour, these are rainbow drops !! they make me real happy
ive also put stuff on speakers and watched them dance, like specks of glitter and really small seeds …
fun!!
Brilliant stuff, brilliant!
I’m a little curious, though. Did you play some dubstep on those speakers? Hahaaa!
Fantastic photos. Very generous of you to share how to took them. I wouldn’t have a clue how to set any of it up myself (I am a mechanical moron, but then we can’t have everything in life). Really imaginative process and wonderful photos.
This is crazy, and great photography!
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Is this one of the coolest things you’ve ever seen? Read how he does it below the photos.
Oooooooooooooooooooooo!!
These are sooooooooo beautiful!
low frequency bass noise? Was it contained in “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”. Absolutely astounding colors and totally psychedelic. I Love It.
Beautiful
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These are so awesome!! I just love the the creative innovation!! And the colours! Absolutely amazing! And very inspiring!
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What FUN
So that’s what sound looks like!
Your photography is nothing short of amazing. It’s a pleasure to come here.
Soo very Symphonic!
Very creative! Your work is a breath of fresh air, thank you.
Amazing, perfect shot!
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for checking out my blog too.
You amaze me with your photography skills.
Spectacular! It was great that you shared your set-up info but I’m sure there is an essential ingredient missing in getting these results — YOU. This reminds me of all the great recipes that get handed down and passed around; there is just no replicating the results. No matter how hard you try, you are always missing that fundamental WOW factor when you try to duplicate it. It is like getting a photocopy of a photocopy. The magic comes (or disappears) with that unique infusion from the creator. Mitchell Kyd
amazing shots
These are incredible – I am going to put some money aside and get all four to display in my new apartment. I wish I could try to replicate these, alas I do not have the equipment! What an AWESOME idea!!
Fantastic colors
A.Mazing shots! I hope to take some wonderful ones just like them one day. So creative and fun? Do you allow people to use your photos if they are linked back to your blog?
Cheers
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OH MY! I thought these were SUPER awesome and had to share them with you guys.
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Your photographs are spectacular, colorful, imagination, fascinated me ….
gorgeous! just another reason i desperately want a flash (or two)
Hi Patrick! Your photographs are absolutely stunning! There must have been serious bass in those speakers! Thanks so much for your follow of my blog, I will definitely be keeping up with yours!
Amazing! “Symphonic kaleidoscope” is how I would describe this collection.
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So creative! (:
Sometimes I wish I could appreciate art more. I don’t have the “technical background” if you will, and the most I can really say about art when I see it is “I like it!” or “It’s so beautiful” or “Oh…I don’t know what to think.” But I guess that’s what’s so wonderful about art – it’s up for interpretation. I may not be able to understand the work that went behind creating it, but I can at least feel some sort of emotion when I see it? MEH I don’t know. All I wanted to say was that this is gorgeous and I wish I could say more…but I can’t LOL
Thanks for sharing! (:
Damn, those are surprisingly clean photos despite the mess that usually goes with paint. Great job!
I feel child-like joy looking at these photos you created with pure artistic genius! Many thanks!!!
I feel child-like joy looking at this. Thanks for sharing your artistic genius!
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beautiful stuff there mate, doesnt look real in a way that has been shot beautifully. awesome technique
Amazing! The paint drops almost speak to you.
thank you for liking my blog and for introducing me to yours
Hey dude, thanks for stopping by my blog. Your photos are amazing. keep it up. I love it!
What to say… they DO SPEAK…