In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see. High-speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event.

Depending on the event to be photographed, methods range from the use of ultra-short time flash exposures to producing lots of exposures in a split-second. Seemingly frozen in time, a lot of photographers have their particular method of doing high-speed photography.

The usual photographic flash component offers a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). But the photographic flash component used in high-speed photography is so much quicker than this, and it creates a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This lets you freeze time through pictures that are happening tremendously fast.

It’s not easy to come up with a perfect shot while capturing a rapidly occurring event; photographers that specialize in this type of photography are masters of patience. Below are some incredibly fresh images that show the beautiful combination of artistic expression and technical precision.

#2 @Burrard Lucas

#5 @Tpphoto

#11 @Robert D Bruce

#14 @Alastair Batchelor

#17 @OSUSTUDENT

#18 @Jens Erik Mikkelsen

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