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Milk drop, Coronet

Harold Edgerton was known by people because of his splashing mild-drop. He regarded himself as a scientist rather than a artist. Also, scientists are benefit from his products by giving them a window on the invisible, and give a window for people to look him for inspiration.

I think his photographs stop the time, and tell visitors time could be stopped. His stroboscopic flash record time and show how time looks like. Rather than to say he stopped the time by his camera, I would say that he recorded time and explore the depth of time in his photographs.

He tried to make invisible visible. He revealed times to naked eye which engaged people’s imagination. He separate in slices and show people images in each sliced of time. It is a huge challenge to traditional photographs. Milk drop, transcended its simple subject, which is formed by splash of a drop of mild. This photograph is not only showing the poetry of physics into popular culture, also altered the visual vocabulary of photography and science. Since eye cannot time-resolve events shorter than a second, which explains why things are appeared to be continuous. By reducing photographic exposure times, Edgerton got these special photographs.

The photograph, Milk drop provides a view of a dramatic movement of liquid. It provides a visual record of the details within our daily world. It show viewers the beauty that beyond their purview. For Milk drop, we can see that a splash is a crown-like formation which is on surface of a plate of milk. Since the press from milk dropping, a ring of liquid rises in a ring shape. Time shows both active present and future tense.

Edgerton once describes Milk Drop, Coronet in the following paragraph.

“A diadem, decorated with pearls above the rim, produced by a drop of milk falling on a plate covered with a thin layer of milk. In the land of splashes, surface