I am a fan of Harold Edgerton's motion-stopping images by means of an electronic flash. The key with this type of photography is to provide flash synchronization with the actual event.
Almost 25 years ago, I built a sound-activated hot-shoe adapter. The noise of the balloon popping would trigger the flash connected to the hot-shoe at the correct time.
Love how the water appears suspended mid-air for those fleeting milliseconds.

 

Another example, a light bulb smashing against the concrete floor.

 

Another example, a light bulb smashing against the concrete floor.

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Now you have to call Hazmat.

 

A much more difficult photography was capturing fleeting repetitive events. I could not find a way to recharge the flash capacitor fast enough, and thus I experimented with the then new high power white LEDs. While this worked, this posed another photographic problem, the cumulative flashes would eventually white out the background. I had to use a video camera, with a monitor output of analog composite video. With an LM1881 video sync separator, I would trigger the LED at each frame, and using an ISA-slot video frame grabber card, capture the successive frames and then using photoshop overlay them.
Resolution is only 640X480 but the results are very interesting, clearly showing a decaying mechanical oscillation.

 

Another photo, same setup, but this time illustrating Edgerton's famous milk droplets photo. The photo sequence shows the different stages of the liquid.

 

...the cumulative flashes would eventually white out the background.

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