source: australiangeographic

Caroline Harding

Capturing the smoke flow created whilst a light filament burns out when the bulb has been removed. This image captures the motion of the smoke flow just before it turns into a shapeless mushroom cloud.

The project assistant with the Museum of Victoria held a gel cover over a 1/500th of a second flash to snap the smoke’s movement. The image one third prize in the 2010 Eureka Science prize for photography.