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This one probably won’t win any awards, but it showcases the symbiotic relationship snowflakes can have with each-other… and vibrant blue colour! You don’t see that every day. View large!
Blue colouring from thin film interference is possible (clearly!), but much less common than other colours. Greens, also seen from the background flake here, are much more common based on the repetition of certain colours within the interference “scale”. By examining soap film, this scale is easy to see as gravity alters the thickness of the film: skycrystals.ca/bts/thin-film-interference.jpg
In that soap film example, you can see a narrow band of thickness that generates blue colouring – this snowflake fits perfectly in that band. When a bubble inside the ice forces the ice on top to be just the right thickness, these colours emerge. If the thickness of the ice changes, so does the colour. Because snowflakes are solid structures rather than liquid, you often see solid colours lasting for an extended area of coverage.
These two snowflakes are also a great example of what chaos happens when two crystals glue themselves together while growing. The exact conditions that cause this stickiness is unknown to me, but the results are plain to see. The top snowflake is growing in an almost diamond-like shape, with the right side (attached to the bottom snowflake) having a thinner blue border compared to the left. The left side was growing faster, with more access to water vapour. The curious “space shuttle” shape of the underlying flake is no doubt caused by the same interactions, though in a much more complex manner that might be affected by how the snowflakes were falling. The aerodynamic properties of this “finned” snowflake could have made it tumble through the air differently, possibly creating areas of turbulence that affect the growth.
Snowflakes like these don’t play by the standard rules! I suppose that makes them more unique, and a little more mysterious.
If you’d like to know more about the science of snowflakes with an exhaustive and comprehensive tutorial on how to photograph and edit these little gems, check out my book Sky Crystals:
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Other things you might be interested in:
2018 Ice Crystals Coin from the Royal Canadian Mint featuring my snowflakes: www.mint.ca/store/coins/coin-prod3040427
“The Snowflake” print, taking 2500 hours to create: skycrystals.ca/product/poster-proof/
Photo Geek Weekly, my new podcast: www.photogeekweekly.com/
Canadians (and likely other winter residents as well) have a love hate relationship with the snow plow. It's great to have clear streets after a heavy snowfall but on the other hand, it's probably fair to say that everyone thinks the plow operator has a mean streak and takes particular delight with filling in the end of your driveway to make it impassible - especially when you've just cleared it all out.
It's nonsense, of course, but I'll bet it crossed your mind more then once when you're the one standing in the driveway and watching it happen.
Think positive! Think photo ops!
Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 105 mm F 4.5" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Around 15 images focus-stacked with Helicon Focus!
30-07-2015
TOPIC : I HOPE MY PHOTO IT HAS A STORY
Relationship
Camera : Sony A7s
Lens : Carl Zeiss sonnar F135mm F2.8
Our relationships with our siblings are the longest we have in life. Probably, not by coincidence, the story of Cain and Abel is at the beginning of the book of Genesis, showing us the complex, not to say, dangerous aspects of these relationships (when the parent prefers one child over the other).
The girl here is tweaking her brother's cheek 'from the depth of her heart', and as you can guess he was offended, hurt, and started crying as loud as he could.
p.s.
Above them, it is written in Hebrew: (I am a good person) "Defamation, is not talking to me"…
The photo was taken a day before the Jewish 'Day of Atonement' (YOM KIPPUR) in which people are supposed to ask forgiveness from other people they might offend…
Enjoying it alone great. Sharing the moment is bliss.
Japan, Gifu Prefecture, Takayama-city Autumn
日本、岐阜県、高山市 秋
In biology, “symbiosis” refers to two organisms that live close to and interact with one another. Astronomers have long studied a class of stars – called symbiotic stars – that co-exist in a similar way. Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers are gaining a better understanding of how volatile this close stellar relationship can be.
R Aquarii (R Aqr, for short) is one of the best known of the symbiotic stars. Located at a distance of about 710 light years from Earth, its changes in brightness were first noticed with the naked eye almost a thousand years ago. Since then, astronomers have studied this object and determined that R Aqr is not one star, but two: a small, dense white dwarf and a cool red, giant star.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. Montez et al.; Optical: Adam Block/Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter/U. Arizona
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Location : Jeram Selangor Malaysia.
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Similis simile gaudet (in English: "like rejoices in like"). This Latin saying perfectly expresses our relationship with Erika.
The Juniper Queen
For the past six consecutive years, I have been blessed to travel with friends to Central Florida to fish, tell lies, unwind and most importantly, to photograph. For half of those visits, hurricanes have played both major and minor roles on when or even if we could go. A lady named Irma, toppled ancient trees and raising the water level for months to follow, hit this area hard a year ago last month. Our yearly October 2017 trip was canceled and rescheduled for April 2018.
Arriving seven months after Irma’s wrath, her impact remained evident both above and below the waters surface. It was during our first trip to the mouth of the Juniper River that I noticed her once again sitting high above her domain, the Juniper Queen. I had reached a point in our relationship that I almost expected her to be there for my arrival. On each of my previous visits I would photograph her as we passed under her to get to our favorite fishing holes, but on this April day, something was noticeably different. After taking a few shots, I cropped into the shot on the back of my camera to better see what was catching my eye.
Sadness quickly became the mood of the moment as I viewed her portrait; it was evident that this old girl had been battered about severely. Feathers from the top of her head were missing and her normally brilliant white majestic head was several shades of gray. She had several wing and chest feathers protruding at all available angles, she just looked sick. The only good news was that she was still with us, holding firmly to her spot.
Wondering what could have torn her up like that, my mind turned quickly to Irma and the battle for survival that must have taken place with all of God’s creatures in a hurricane. I pictured her riding out Irma right there; in her spot with the same attitude and gusto of Lt. Dan riding out the hurricane in Forest Gump, asking along the way “is this all you got?” Her photos from last April were so sad, I’m pretty sure that I simply deleted them. No lady wants her picture taken looking so poorly.
Earlier this month, as we cut across Lake George heading for the Juniper River, I could see from a distance that she was still there, holding her own…a blessing for us both. With the dark skies of one of Hurricane Michaels last bands behind her I took this shot. Looking so much better, so much stronger and as they say “Large and in charge” the queen was in fact back and in charge of her domain, with her newly developed head feathers protruding like a much deserved crown.
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Sensing it was still a thorny issue with her after all this time. He decided it was best to just drop it altogether.
Being the busybody that I am - you know me, I offered to help a tourist take pictures of his wife.
It made me realize one thing.
When I am not on celibacy mode, you’ll never see me trying to awkwardly pose for my partner. I’m THE ONE with the camera, YOU POSE as I show you, lemme do the craft.
This attitude might explains the celibacy. And why kind people turn into narcissistic bastards when they’re too close to me. Which is why I can’t show you any picture of the emotional pyro Canadian Trudeau lookalike who lived with me for a bit.
Am I writing a manifesto? I need sleep.
Too much caffeine for a coherent stream of consciousness essay.
I apologize.
The lady on the picture was kind.