“The Infinite Now” by Australian Photographer Ray Collins & Dutch Cinematographer Armand Dijcks.

Australian photographer Ray Collins documents the many changing shapes, colours and forms of the ocean. Freezing the ephemeral relationship between water and light is what drives and inspires him to clamber out of bed in the dark each morning to celebrate the sun rising over the sea.

Collins is an oceanic photographer who takes photographs capturing the fleeting moments of a wave’s journey to dissipation. His work has spectacularly been given the three-dimensional treatment during his collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Armand Dijcks. Their majestic and awe inspiring short films are simply called, ‘The Infinite Now’.

Dijcks is a cinematographer/photographer creating moving images, stills and cinemagraphs, a hybrid form of the two. In his work he often combines techniques from the worlds of still and motion photography, to achieve innovative and unusual results.

By using seven stills of Collins’ work, Dijcks has created a series of slow motion films. The rawness of the ocean, the tumultuous energy and the power of the sea are all evident in these short pieces.

Set to the backdrop of pianists Jeroen van Vliet and André Heuvelman from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘The Infinite Now’ is a commanding series of cinemagraphs that come very much to life.

[Images & video © the artists via Flixel.]