Pages

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Catching Snowflakes

I love looking at snowflakes. I used a magnifying glass to enlarge the flakes, then aimed the camera. Not professional but it was fun to try it.

For truly stunning snowflake photos, see this CalTech website. You can also find photos by Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the man who first figured out how take pictures of fragile flakes, online and free for downloading. and National Geographic offers more information than you thought existed in an article, with great photos, on their website.

Here are the results of my efforts:






















Posted by at
Labels:

1 comment:

  1. JaimeFri Feb 29, 10:25:00 PM

    I've never really looked at snowflakes up close. How amazing they really are. To be so small and have such intricate beauty.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Comments are moderated so may not appear immediately, but be assured that I read and enjoy each and every word you write, and will post them as quickly as possible.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...