Wet Surprise

Photo date: July 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark background.  We see some astonishing face-like details. This is one of quite-a-few manifestations of the water face effect that I photographed on this day.

What is seen in a photograph such as this is multiple repetitions of the same unusual visual motif.  I have observed that type of thing many times when photographing ordinary water drops falling.  The set of photos here (going back to 2015) show many examples of such a repeating-motif effect, with my 2015 photo here being a particularly striking example.

Return of the Water Face Effect

Photo date: July 10, 2019. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

I took the photo below while photographing nothing but ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling against a dark, featureless background.

I had previously got an effect I called the water face effect, in which face-like details appeared in many photos I took of falling water drops, using an old Olympus camera that is no longer working.  Today is the first day I got such an effect abundantly using my Sony A6000 camera.  Today I got many consecutive photos looking like this photo. I will publish them gradually this month.