‘Water Drop Refractions,’ Photo Series by Markus Reugels

Markus Reugels, from Schweinfurt, Germany spend weeks snapping these incredible images of little droplet of water. The photographs captures iconic images within a single droplet of water.

This image of the globe from space looks uncannily true to life when pictured through a droplet of water. Photographer Markus Reugels spends hundreds of hours painstakingly composing these shots. This image has been flipped upside down due to the reversing lens-like effects of the water droplet

‘My pictures of the water drops are all taken with my self made setup rig – all handmade out of wood.
‘I fix all my valves and flashes tot he contraption, and can put the image I want to project behind the dripping water.

‘Sometimes I take 500 pictures and only a couple of them are really perfect in my opinion.

‘I start each series with a goal in my head, but every time is different, so you can plan much but usually it turns out differently.

‘There are so many factors who will influence the result – the viscosity of the water ,the height of the drops, the nozzle size even the temperature of the water.
‘I started taking the pictures after I saw some simple water drop pictures in a German photography community website, and was inspired to try it myself.’