A sidetrack from today; this is one page from the "Sekka Zusetsu" (雪華図説), a collection of 86 drawings of snowflakes made in 1832 by Doi Toshitsura, a local Japanese ruler. He collected snowflakes on a black cloth and observed them under a microscope that had been imported from The Netherlands. Apparently these drawings triggered the development of hexagonal ornaments in Japan.

#SekkaZusetsu #SnowCrystals #SystemsThatMatter

I really found this #SaturdaySighting impossible to capture with my fairly amateur camera, but a long stretch of my hiking trail this morning was overlaid with this wonderfully crystalized snow. The tiny fractals, like the Snow Queen's cloak of quills, caught the light everywhere I looked and was, very literally, dazzling.

#SnowCrystals #Hoarfrost #AmateurPhotography

Pretty snowflakes from this afternoon.

#Photography #Snow #SnowCrystals
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Snow from this afternoon.

#Photography #Snow #Grass #SnowCrystals
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fascinating story about a person who spent their life devoted to photographing snowflakes

“Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost”

#Snowflake #Bentley’s 19th-century images of #snowcrystals put online

Natural History Museum bought album of images by pioneering scientist in 1899 and has now digitised them

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/04/snowflake-bentleys-19th-century-images-of-snow-crystals-put-online