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Today's Flake. I think that this one has the best detail/definition to date. I used a tube extender and preset lens aperture to f8. I was pleased with the results of this one, because they were starting to melt within seconds of hitting the glass, so I had work and focus quickly. When the temp climbs above -8C, it is hit and miss with the flakes. I think that I am getting the last of this Winter's flake flock!!
tailfins on a derelict and rusty 1959 cadillac eldorado. 3min exposure under full moon, background sky lit by sodium-arc light pollution. lit with red-gelled LED flashlight. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm. RAW/NEF processed in Capture NX2 + Photoshop CS 5.5.
hollywood rentals night photography workshop. may 2012 alumni gathering hosted by mike hows and joe reed. location not disclosed at the request of the owner.
For this weeks "Looking close...on Friday!" with the theme "Not a real one".
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It snowed for a while around noon hour, so I tried shooting some more snow. The condition was perfect. It was below -8C and not overly windy. I shot all of these on a laser disc in my garden shed and am happy with the results
hopefully my last shot from the archives for a while. My lens arrived yesterday, so today im off to take some shots xD!
i love 99 flakes, they're sooo yummy. Shame its too cold right now to get one.
It snowed this morning! It was above freezing so I was lucky to get this partially melted snow flake.
I love growth transitions in snowflakes. That sounds strange, but it provides a point where additional depth and detail is added to a snowflake, and this is a great example. View large!
There are at least three different growth stages here, and some interesting evidence of other crystals influencing the growth as well. The very center of the snowflake is fairly solid and stable, and only a subtle change was required to get the branches to begin forming. This slight change transitions to stable growth again, resulting in large, broad branches forming back into a hexagonal shape in the inner part of the snowflake. If the growth stopped here, I might say that the snowflake would have been more beautiful. Thoughts on that?
The growth continued in a different direction, one that began fast and chaotic, and slowed to a more rigid design. During the faster and more chaotic growth, another snowflake collided and stuck to this one. You can see the evidence in the top branch, where the growth significantly slowed, if not stopped altogether. The rounded tips are signs of fast growth and sublimation, which supports this. Possibly on impact with the ground, this extra passenger broke away. The other six branches have strong 60-degree angled edges, meaning they continued to grow unobstructed.
What I really find interesting here is the symmetry in branch length. The top and bottom branch, even though they underwent different growth conditions, still ended up the same length. There are two possible causes for this:
First, the outward growth stopped shortly after the collision, and the lower humidity started to “fill in” the facets of the branches and side-branches. Second, is that there is something that is balancing the opposing growth of the branches that is beyond the simple attraction of water vapour, and it might have something to do with electric charge.
When speaking with a scientific photographer and professor at the Rochester Institute of Photography, Ted Kinsman, I believe we has some discussions in the past about how the growth of a snowflake is affected by electric charge. I know for certain through other research by Ken Libbrecht at Caltech that snowflakes can be spawned on the end of needles of ice, created through electric charges, but would it have an impact on the balance of a snowflake. I should talk to Ted again for more details, since the other two pairs of opposing branches seem to be of the same length. These ideas can be refuted and debated by the sizes of the side-branches growing downward as having more available water vapour simply distributed in a different way, but it still keeps me curious.
Flowers, seashells, and trees, all seen within the same snowflake. I’m glad this one found its way in front of my camera lens, and it allows me to think of some very interesting scientific questions!
For answers to many questions about how snowflakes form, and the most comprehensive snowflake photography guide ever written, you need to get a copy of Sky Crystals: skycrystals.ca/book/ - you won’t be disappointed!
For the bigger picture, check out “The Snowflake”: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - there hasn’t been more effort put into a single image regarding snowflakes in history, and I doubt it will be unseated from that claim. :)
Some thick flakes fall at BNSF's 28th Street Yard in Superior. They melted fast, as expected this time of year.
It didn't stay long on the head of this busy little Titmouse. 😊 Snow and ice are still around and temperatures below freezing. It will all be gone today with temperatures approaching 50F.
It was great to see Pauline Ferrand-Prevot back healthy again! 👍 In the cyclocross race this morning in Belgium, she ran off and left the field of current and past world and national champions! She put on a clinic for them!