At first glance, these incredible images look like still-life portraits of some exotic flowers.

His work takes months of painstaking planning and testing.

He said: ‘I love working with liquids because of their incredible versatility when creating high speed photography.

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It is as much chance as it is preparation and planning.

They are all different.

The work takes a great amount of planning, set building and testing.

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This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing.

Hundreds of captures are made in testing and then many more during the actual final capture stage.

A very few stand out as being the best.

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All of my images are created in one single capture.

I do not make composites from multiple images, unless otherwise noted.

All of my fluid flowers are as captured.

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Photoshop is only used to ‘clean up’ the image and to enhance the image with basic tools.’

you could see much more of his work onFlickrand500px.

[viaThe Daily Mail]

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