weird science

maddog.mark · 21 Mar 2011

My daughter is learning how plants take up water and so a daffodil has sat on the desk tonight gradually turning black as the ink in the water is sucked into the petals.
Well I couldn't not take a picture of that could I

Daffodil by NnG Photography, on Flickr

Think I may have to set this up properly and do some time lapse at some point

ki_user · 21 Mar 2011

That's pretty cool

maddog.mark · 22 Mar 2011

Thanks Lee, it was interesting watching the ink bleed through the petals.

Jujitsu1 · 22 Mar 2011

That is very good. Interesting subject too. what type of ink did you use ?

FrankCastle · 22 Mar 2011

Really cool idea! May give this a go at the weekend

slr10 · 22 Mar 2011

Nice shot. I used to do this when I was younger with food colouring! Looks great on the dafs with white petals! (not a clue what they are called!)

jomantha · 22 Mar 2011

That's fab, would it work through any flower do you think???

What a great idea.

Breezy · 22 Mar 2011

Love that effect, you can do this with carnations and roses (roses take longer) I used to use food colouring.

maddog.mark · 22 Mar 2011

Jujitsu1 said:
That is very good. Interesting subject too. what type of ink did you use ?

Thank you, this was just standard ink for an ink pen.

FrankCastle said:
Really cool idea! May give this a go at the weekend

Thanks, I'm definitely going to give it another go too

slr10 said:
Nice shot. I used to do this when I was younger with food colouring! Looks great on the dafs with white petals! (not a clue what they are called!)

Thanks, and yes Bethan was supposed to use food colouring but we didn't have any, so ink was the substitute

jomantha said:
That's fab, would it work through any flower do you think???

What a great idea.

Breezy said:
Love that effect, you can do this with carnations and roses (roses take longer) I used to use food colouring.

Thanks both and Jomantha it would appear Breezy has answered the question for us

FrankCastle · 22 Mar 2011

I remember doing it with red food colouring at school but the black ink looks really effective.

jomantha · 22 Mar 2011

Thanks - do you think it would work with a lily?

maddog.mark · 22 Mar 2011

jomantha said:
Thanks - do you think it would work with a lily?

Only one way to find out