2009/1/16 Christine Aguila <[email protected]>: > Very cool: This one looks like a film developing reel: > http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/9
It does, doesn't it! :-) If that kind of crystal is allowed some further growth, it will sprout hexagonal patterns of the end-plates of the reel. This sometimes results in beautiful 12-armed crystals like Mark Cassino has captured here: http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/portfolios/snow/pages/04s24.htm Those are extremely hard to photograph properly because usually there's not enough DOF to get both sets of arms in focus at the same time. Mark C. rules! :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
