The life of a flower usually ends in slow, inglorious decay as petals wilt and succumbs to the cycle of life, but these flowers shot by German photographer Martin Klimas go out with a bang. For his exploding flower photographs the artist first soaked them in liquid nitrogen to ensure the petals were brittle as eggshells and then blasted them from behind with an air gun resulting in dazzling bursts of color.
Klimas also opens a show called Sonic at Foley Gallery in New York starting September 18, 2013.
[via My Modern Met]