Other images stand out because of t

Other images stand out because of the freezing or blurring of time. There are the lovely images of raindrops falling, lightning flashing, and athletes frozen in midair. There are also time exposures that allow us to see a choreography of movement within the still frame. The laundry flutters, the traffic merges, the water flows. In a photograph of a bird in flight, the high-speed exposure allows us to see things that our eyes literally cannot: every feather supporting the bird’s flight, the arc of the wings, the light in the bird’s eye. High-speed photography has been a gift to both art and science.