Amazing Photos of Paint Being Dropped into Water

The cover of my tenth grade chemistry book was amazing…it featured three graduated beakers full of blue liquid, into which bold, colorful liquids were being dropped, blooming and swirling wih clouds. I used to stare at it during tests when I’d forget my stoichiometry; perhaps to calm myself, or maybe because I was hoping I’d magically absorb the info inside.

   British photographer Mark Mawson has mastered the technique in his photo series Aqueous.

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