This is a picture of the reflection of my eye. It’s amazing that the hands and the camera can be seen, without feeling disgusted by the closeness of the eye.

Harold Edgerton

As a photographer, Harold Edgerton was able to capture what the eye can not see ordinarily: a golfer in motion, or the shape created by a milk drop, in his famous 1957 "Milk drop Coronet." Edgerton captured a single instance of time in a manner that had not been previously achieved.

A video clip from The Edgerton Center at MIT shows this phenomenon
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