Harold “Doc” Edgerton
Milk Drop Coronet
What the scientist knows as Surface Tension is a sculptor in liquids, and fashions from them delicate shapes none the less beautiful because they are too ephemeral for any eye but that of the high-speed camera.
In the 1930s, Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton synchronized a camera’s shutter with a high-intensity electronic flash unit, which enabled significantly faster shutter speeds as in Milk Drop Coronet (BW, 1936, color image left, 1957.