I had been washing a bowl in steaming hot water when I got interrupted. So, I did what everyone does when they cannot find an appropriate place for what they have on their hands.
I slapped the empty steaming bowl shut (it came with an airtight lid), put it away in the freezer, the nearest thing that looked like a cabinet with a door, and promptly forgot about it.
A few weeks later I found that both the bowl and the lid were covered with exquisite layers of crystals. I tried hard to photograph them, just did not come out right.
I kept the crystals for many months.
Temperature, moisture, pressure and maybe more variables are the parameters.
So the correct title of the article is 'The First Photographs of Snowflakes'.
The First Photographs of Snowflake's Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography
i.e. the first photographs on Snowflake's part. Though that still doesn't resolve how a guy's pictures discovered microphotography, rather than the guy himself.
[1]: https://vermontsnowflakes.com/cdn/shop/products/Snowflake_Th...
[2]: https://physics.montana.edu/demonstrations/video/1_mechanics...
She was talking about #1 (the work of Bentley made into a collage), and I was talking about #2. It turned out to be a pretty good way of thinking about how imperfect communication is, and how hard it is to get on the same page about things that are even more important when all we have is words.
Forgeties79•1mo ago