Posts Tagged ‘ice crystals’

And more crystals

21Feb09

A mass of the feathery crystals – these were growing on a snow-covered rock by the brook:

When I took this it was 8  F – now it’s in the 30s F. Balmy by comparison, if not quite spring.


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Ice Crystals

23Jan09

When the temperature is around 5 to 10 degrees F, feathery ice crystals form on the banks and branches next to flowing streams. This is a high magnification closeup of a few ice strands, just a few millimeters wide:

I have images of full crystals for another post. This is approximately 4x magnification.


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Snowflakes

21Dec08

I’ve been out in the cold chasing snowflakes:

I stood with a high magnification lens on a tripod, waiting for flakes to fall on a dark oak leaf I set out. A few times a beautiful intact flake fell and then the wind blew the leaf – I stuck the leaf in the snow. I ended [...]


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Ice crystals

18Dec08

A high-magnfication view of some ice crystals:

The crystals are just a few millimeters long – I found them growing between to boards of a footbridge on a cold day.


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Beech leaf, stream ice

09Jan08

Last week was extremely cold in the Boston area – single digits, negative wild chills. When it gets that cold streams and brooks form beautiful ice patterns. Sometimes streams accumulate star-shaped ice crystals on the icy surface (I call them ice flowers), and there also can be tiny delicate ice crystals. I’ve seen a bit [...]


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