Crayons being hit with a .22 caliber slug in a ballistics test.
We were hoping to have the bullet reach the last crayon for a rainbow
effect.
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Interesting daily #1 moments for January 13th 2005 Here.
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Homage to Edgerton
Harold Edgerton, aka Doc, was a professor at MIT. He was the father of the strobe, (or flash) and developed many techniques in which all high speed photography today uses for reference.
There is now an educational center in Nebraska, his home town.
Anyone who uses flash for that matter should remember where it came from. This does not only apply to bullets.
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"Child's Play"
by lavender
Suddenly they burst like bombs
Cry all out we've been shot
It's time to become shattered
We are banning the peace talks
We have a right to fight
We have the aim to shoot
Not going to wave that white flag
That point is superflously mute
The have made child's play a war
man the crayons are ploys
cruel adults have childish ways
lets kill the ungrateful toys
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Shaylor 91 months ago | reply
I've had this image faved for almost as long as I've been on flickr. Now I come to discover that your wife shares a cubicle with my step dad (Kim). Weird, huh?
spyzter 91 months ago | reply
That's weird in a cool kind of way. Nice to meet you Shaylor.
I met your step dad a year ago. Nice guy, but didn't shake my hand because he had Cheetos fingers :) Quite a funny moment actually.
mattsabo17 89 months ago | reply
Very clever idea... impressive.
Diabolis 88 months ago | reply
wow, so much destruction
Cloudberries 85 months ago | reply
looks like fun! great shot, rainbow splatters would have been awesome!!
I, Puzzled 78 months ago | reply
Congratulations! This image is currently one of Flickr's most interesting photos for 12 January 2005 (Two years ago today!). (It is on page one of the calendar view.) Would you please add it to the Interestingness pool? It would be a great addition!
Bob.Fornal 78 months ago | reply
Love it ... clever!
AlpenaMi 74 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Crayons Only,
and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
KeeganB! 74 months ago | reply
so big?
LOL TATS WAT SHE SAID
natemcsp 73 months ago | reply
Awesome.
spyzter 73 months ago | reply
Thanks for the kind comments.
SerialCoder 71 months ago | reply
This image has been added to the Flickr Museum for making explore's top 25. Kudos!You can check it out here...
Seth_Reynolds [deleted] 69 months ago | reply
Amazing
Sam ☮ [deleted] 64 months ago | reply
Try it again!
LouisePhotographs.com 62 months ago | reply
Amazing creative use of a gun, capturing spectacular moments!
If only guns could create more spectacular moments than devastating ones
Illuminating Distractions 58 months ago | reply
that is wicked! I must try shooting crayons or similar myself, really cool colour effects :)
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Hi! I am an admin for a brand new group dedicated to pure high speed photography with exposures of 1/10000th of a second or faster. No snapshots of running dogs or rubbish like that. I don’t see any other groups which are just showing proper high speed photography.
If you are interested then I would be very grateful if you would add this photo and any other high speed shots you have to the group below :O)
Thanks
Regards
Phil
ryanfreemoney 56 months ago | reply
Hot Damn!
Manu Reiter 50 months ago | reply
amazing. so full of energy this shot... great!
jackn888 46 months ago | reply
Madness! Very cool! :-)
adamentmeat 31 months ago | reply
This is a little random, but did you use an airspark flash for this(and your other ballistic shots)? If so what size capacitor did you use?