½ tsp of Honey
Brian loves baking and has a large collection of recipes. But he is always careful when measuring honey as he knows it could seriously affect his osmotic balance.
Honey is a viscous liquid containing the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. My jar of honey labelled as 'clear honey' originally had a runny consistency - but over time the glucose present had precipitated forming solid crystals. Warming the honey helped these crystals to dissolve so the honey became more liquid again. The temperature of the honey greatly affected its viscosity, so producing this image required much trial and error to get the honey to form nice drips, but not too fast! Only after I had my technique working did I bring Brian into the picture. A shutter speed fast enough to photograph Brian wasn't fast enough to avoid movement in the drip, but I decided I preferred this to a more stationary gloopy drip.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Liquid'. The bowl of the measuring spoon was 2.7 cm long, so the image spans about 6.9 cm.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
½ tsp of Honey
Brian loves baking and has a large collection of recipes. But he is always careful when measuring honey as he knows it could seriously affect his osmotic balance.
Honey is a viscous liquid containing the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. My jar of honey labelled as 'clear honey' originally had a runny consistency - but over time the glucose present had precipitated forming solid crystals. Warming the honey helped these crystals to dissolve so the honey became more liquid again. The temperature of the honey greatly affected its viscosity, so producing this image required much trial and error to get the honey to form nice drips, but not too fast! Only after I had my technique working did I bring Brian into the picture. A shutter speed fast enough to photograph Brian wasn't fast enough to avoid movement in the drip, but I decided I preferred this to a more stationary gloopy drip.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Liquid'. The bowl of the measuring spoon was 2.7 cm long, so the image spans about 6.9 cm.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.