High Speed Photography By Alan Sailer

The dramatic results feature everything from flowers to fruit, as well as more unexpected items such as bacon and even snow globes.
An expert at high-speed photography, Mr Sailer takes the pictures in a dark room positioned around 20cm from the target. The camera, which features a unique home-made flash, is set at a one-second delay.
Mr Sailer, who describes the process as 'beyond dangerous, says: 'The special item is the flash. It is a home-built unit based on the design Harold Edgerton (Harold Edgerton (1903-1990) was a pressor electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute Technology, and is regarded as the father high-speed photography). The flash is about .5 microsecond in duration and runs at 17,000 volts. It is beyond dangerous, it's deadly.