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A plastic vial filled with red dye, cornstarch and water. Alan says: "The shooting is stressful. It takes time to set up the shot and WHAM, it's all over. You may or may not have got a good picture and now there is a mess on your setup, your camera, the garage"

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A Christmas ornament filled with orange jelly. Alan notes: "What was cool was that the jelly held the pieces of the bulb together after the shot"

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Alan calls this one I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass. He says: "Four microscope slides. Shades of the famous Blade Runner death scene"

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Alan calls this one Last M&M Standing

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Tricolour Play-Doh

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Orange jelly experiences small scale hydrodynamic shock from a .177 pellet

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Berry nice: Using a laser to trigger the camera, Alan Sailer captured the moment a pellet hit a strawberry in slow motion

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Matrix-style action: The water-filled ornament shows the bullet tearing through the glass

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Tomato juice: A fun and unique way to blend fruit

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Walnut cracking: Sailer goes nuts with his air rifle