Asad Jan

It's mind boggling to try and think of all the things that the human eye is unable to see. Whether it be something too small, or something that happens too quickly, were missing out on so much because we can't capture the moment. Photography, and in particular high-speed still photography which was made possible by the invention of the stobe light by Harold Edgerton, has helped us overcome these inabilities and have allowed us to capture moments of extreme precariousness and delicacy. My favourite part of the image on the left it how thin the film of milk just under the rim of drops is. One wouldn't think these kinds of things actually happened in real life, like the way the drop of water jumps up from the surface and is suspended there because of our ability to freeze time. These are mind benders for me because the stationary nature of the liquids and so unnatural to our normal conceptions. Edgerton himself became famous for his milk-drop and bullet-through-apple photographs using this new technology.