German Photographer Shoots Flowers In The Face For The Sake Of Art

Liquid nitrogen, an Air Gun, and high-speed-low-drag German photography:

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To achieve this, photograher Martin Klimas  sought out flowers with particularly complex internal structures and froze them to -200° Celsius in liquid nitrogen. Once they were frozen, he had to be careful. “They’re as fragile as raw eggs,” he says. “You can destroy them by sneezing.”  After the flowers were frozen, he brought them to his set and placed the stem in a vice to hold the blossom in front of a white background. He used a normal air gun rigged with a device that let him remotely pull the trigger, and took a series of shots right at the moment of impact.

Allllllllways with the air guns in these types of things.  Yea I get that you don’t need a high caliber round to shatter a liquid nitrogen’d flower but come on!  The photographer is German, so I’m sure like every German guy I imagine he probably has legit ties to someone at HK who could toss one of those “too dangerous for civilians” MP7s his way for an afternoon.  Does HK hate german civilians too?  Or is that just American civilians they hate?

Lots more pictures over at the Smithsonian blog.

Thoughts?  Want to see Richard Ryan shoot some flowers in the face?  That would probably upset some of the California hippies he’s surrounded by.

Hat tip: Jay


Comments

4 responses to “German Photographer Shoots Flowers In The Face For The Sake Of Art”

  1. John Grammaticus Avatar
    John Grammaticus

    Obtaining a firearm in Germany is possible, but not very easy. Mike, Europe is different, we have to struggle for our guns if the country of residence even allows that.

  2. I don’t get it..what are we looking at. why? ..need arm tape and vigilant sphincter jokes..where’s HSLD operators… I don’t see Buck Yeager..what?

  3. SittingDown Avatar
    SittingDown

    Merkel will probably ban air guns forever if she sees this.

  4. After he shoots these flowers, he says, “Touch my monkey.”