Liquid Art

German photographer Markus Reugels captures remarkable sculptural images of splashing water droplets using flash photography.

http://www.markusreugels.de/

From the menu on the left (the website is in German) you can view various categories of droplet shape, including crowns and fountains. TOTD’s favourites though are those in the ‘Refraktion’ category, particularly the globes!

Wonderful high speed video of colliding water droplets can also be seen on the highly entertaining Slo Mo Guys Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys#p/u/0/cNI-LIVs-to

The English Channel

On this day in 1875, Matthew Webb became the first man to successfully swim the English Channel. Since then many others have managed to swim from England to France or vice-versa. Here is more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_English_Channel_swimmers

And here is a more recent success for Sport Relief:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sport_relief/7282858.stm