Liquid Drop Art By Corrie White

These fantastical shapes are real liquid drops, captured in high speed photography by Corrie White. Corrie was born in the Netherlands and she is currently based in Canada, Corrie started liquid drop art as a mere hobby and soon she went from using primitive tools to pro equipment. It all started when Corrie discovered mesmerizing Martin Waugh’s art a few years ago. “I got the chance to try this for myself and found I had quite a knack for the liquid art. I started out using a medicine dropper for these and have now advanced to using The Time Machine electronics to produce some amazing liquid forms,” says Corrie.
Photography has been an interest for Corrie White from an early age and macro photography has always had a special appeal. Basically self-taught she learned water drop photography from some tutorials online. A lot of water drops posted were done manually with a medicine dropper and a good sense of timing. The more complex forms are done by using Mumford's Time Machine and the Drip Kit which allow her to create some very unique and fascinating figures. The colours used come from food dyes and various flash gels. The forms of the water and milk shapes are pure and unedited.
She has made some discoveries in water drop photography, one of them being the unique three drop splash as in "Tiny Dancer". Another is multiple exposures in water drops. This is where the drops are falling in the same area but while panning the camera, she can get more than one splash in the same frame, such as "Liquid Flowers". She pushed the drip kit to the limits by creating a splash with a bubble-type base caused by an extra large drop as in "Suspended". She has combined soap film and water drops simultaneously as well as the water drop/liquid flow combo as you see in "Coral Sea Dreaming". One method she started using was to color white milk splashes using colored gels on the flash guns which made some very colorful forms.