bentley snowflakes
February 21st 2007 @ 10:34 pm photo, science

snow

In 1902 the scientist/photographer Wilson Bentley (wiki), made a series of pictures of the tiniest snowflakes. He used a technique to catch these snowflakes on a blackboard and then take them as fast as he could to a microscope connected to his camera…

He must have been really passionated!

The results:

snow2.jpg snow3.jpg snow4.jpg snow5.jpg snow6.jpg snow7.jpg

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