Jonathan Smith Photographs Exploding Lightbulbs at High Speeds

Aren't you bummed you didn't think of this first?

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Jonathan Smith is Flickr-famous for a recent photo series using high speed photography. Smith fills light bulbs with a variety of objects, let's them explode, and captures them mid-burst, sending a shock through the Internet, especially the photography community. In an interview for Flickr, Smith, a chemist based in Indiana stated, “I needed something to balance out the analytical part of my brain, something that I could control and have fun doing.” For more of his zany, crazy, and beautiful work, check out Smith's personal website. 

[via Fstoppers]

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