For some reason people, myself included, like water drop photographs. Catching that moment of the splash is a lot of fun (hence the proliferation of them on my site) and it's actually not all that hard.

If you like to take pictures seriously, though not as a professional, and you haven't heard of, or used, foamies, it's really time that you do.

You can buy these, of course, but for about $100 (give or take), you can build one yourself.

A big chunk of my Christmas gifts went towards buying a new Metz 15MS-1 Ring Flash and so, of course, I had to experiment with it...

My first go at commercial photography.

Various different shots of things, mostly macro. Updated with some experiments using multicoloured gels on smoke. Updated again with some water on nail action. Updated again with water on CDs.

Flash point on matches.

Playing around with matches, candles, lasers, and plasma balls.

More playing around with water drops reflecting and refracting light and objects.

Various shots where the lighting is underneath the subject.