Then in early 2009, someone linked one of his pictures to a social networking site.

Soon he was flooded with emails from magazines and newspapers pressing for interviews.

Now I’m a slightly less obscure photographer, says Alan Sailer.

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Here is a collection of some of his very colorful high-speed photographs.

Catch the rest onFlickr.

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