This morning we had the first decent snow of winter and the first chance to take photos of individual snowflakes. Here's the best attempt so far. The trick is to pick out a snowflake with the tip of a knife and move it a cold black surface. :-)
The first was taken on matt black plastic. Photo 2 & 3 used black paper. I'm still looking for a less reflective background and a better way to control the light.
18 comments:
Absolutely beautiful! You must have the patience of a saint to do this. The black and white flake is unusual and very pretty.
That second photo looks like a diamond brooch!
They are beautiful. I'm surprised that you are able to do this. It would never have occurred to me to try. Nice one :)
These are fantastic pictures of snowflakes. Your pictures are inspiring me to try this myself once it snows here tomorrow. But I bet I won't be able to do it. These are so good that I've added this post to our Latest News at Nature Center Magazine. Yours is the first blog post that has been entered there.
They are so beautiful that I hope it snows just a little more so I can see more :O)
Brilliant. I never would have thought it could be done!
I'm very impressed. I've never tried to do that, but it seems really tricky.
I suppose the black part of the bottom snowflake is some pollution, is it? Amazing photos!
Hi Sheila, the black part is where the snowflake started to melt as I was taking the photo!
I can fix the second photo, the thing is because you were put it on top of the black plastic while your camera flash is on. Therefore, number of reflects on the snowflask is really high.
Hi there - splendid pictures - not seen many snowflakes in my own garden for a while!
The cave shots remind me a large cups of Tea at Wilfs when it was still in Ingleton - but that was many years ago! I
Cheers - Stewart M - Australia (now!)
Great photos! It sounds like you need a slab of pure black stone or steel but they'd also have reflective bits, surely? I also wondered about the last one but now I see it melted into the paper with crystals floating on top.
Amazing pictures! Not sure if I've ever seen an actual photograph of a snowflake and can't stop staring!
I'll have to remember to try this when it snows next... I'm likely gonna have to remember real hard... It doesn't snow often here.
It's amazing to think that they're forming in a shape like that (we don't have snow in our country).
Wow, how amazing to be able to really capture an image of a real snowflake! I'd never seen snow and didn't really think individual snowflakes could be photographed. Fascinating!
Great pictures. You so often see drawings of them but it is wonderful to see real snowflakes and real photos.
WOW! i never really thought of taking a macro picture of a snowflake before... you truly captured them beautifully, the first one especially look just like the snowflake ornament that you hang on christmas time. amazing
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