High Speed Photography By Alan Sailer

'I have a delay circuit that I can use to time the flash, so that it goes f when the pellet hits the target. The explosion is the shock the pellet hitting the target.'
Mr Sailer, who experimented with a huge range objects for the series, snapped everything from Bratz dolls to mushrooms in his efforts to take the most visually effective images - and in some cases liked the idea more than the result.
Of his exploding Camembert cheese, he said: 'All the time I was planning to shoot this cheese, I kept thinking Monty Python: "Ah! We do have some Camembert, sir... It's a bit runny, sir..."