Photo Credit: Alan Sailer
In 1957, MIT electrical engineering professor Harold Edgerton developed a special photographic strobe that allowed the camera to freeze an object that would normally be to too fast for the human eye to see. Edgerton was a pioneer in flash photography and his work has played a significant role in the history now.
Now, more than 50 years later, Alan Sailer is pushing the envelop with a homemade flash. Working in relative obscurity and with about $300, Sailer invented a strobe that captures the crashing and crunching of some of the oddest things -- such as limes smashing into meat and paint-filled Christmas ornaments exploding on impact. Sailer began uploading his images to Flickr in 2009, and has since caught the attention of the art world as well as millions of photo enthusiasts.