Bentley Snowflakes

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Based on both arts and science, once a beautiful reality, all these snowflake images survived time. They were captured by Wilson Bentley (1865?1931), a passionate snow crystals photographer, around 1902. He developed an interesting technique of catching flakes on black velvet before they either melted or sublimated: “each crystal was caught on a blackboard and transferred rapidly to a microscope slide.”

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?Quick, the first flakes are coming; the couriers of the coming snow storm. Open the skylight, and directly under it place the carefully prepared blackboard, on whose ebony surface the most minute form of frozen beauty may be welcome from cloud-land. The mysteries of the upper air are about to reveal themselves, if our hands are deft and our eyes quick enough.??Wilson A. Bentley, “The Story of the Snow Crystals? Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 104 (1901:Dec.-1902:May).

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Source: Wikimedia Commons, Bentley Snow Crystal Collection
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8 Responses to “Bentley Snowflakes”

1. Chris, on February 6th, 2007 at 3:15 am Said:

   Beautiful.

   I’ve got plenty falling outside the window at the moment!

2. Alexandra, on February 6th, 2007 at 3:18 am Said:

   I don’t… this winter it snowed so little…

3. Tom, on February 8th, 2007 at 11:00 pm Said:

   pretty wild looking and no 2 are ever the same. I’m looking at alot of them in my yard, I’m ready for spring.

4. Alexandra, on February 8th, 2007 at 11:00 pm Said:

   you’re lucky

5. oskar lewis weblog » bentley snowflakes, on February 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm Said:

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6. Liz Collins, on November 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm Said:

   Makes one contemplate the infinite.

7. Miss Le, on June 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm Said:

   we never get any snow in Texas

8. Cera, on October 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm Said:

   the pictures remind me of Stargate Atlantis….so cool!

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