Hey, I found this to be so interesting that I must tell you about another photographer other than me. :)
These snowflake photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope. They show real snow crystals that fell to earth in northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. . See the link below for a fascinating look:
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/6
The above photos were taken recently. But the man who invented a way to take photos of snowflakes was a farmer and self-taught scientist named Wilson Bentley. He developed a technique of photo-micrography to reveal to the world the grandeur and mystery of the infinite number of lovely designs and universal hexagon shape of the snowflake. He photographed them and cataloged them for over fifty years. Here are some of the images he took. He is now known as "Snowflake Bentley", and there are children's books written about him. Check him out, and share it with someone you know who loves snowflakes!
No comments:
Post a Comment