Close ups of Snowflakes

[DreaMTripper]

Just beautiful

Photographer Uses Cheap Home-Made Camera Rig To Take Stunning Close-Ups of Snowflakes

Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov is an inspiration to aspiring amateur photographers everywhere – he created a home-made rig capable of capturing stunning close-up pictures of snowflakes out of old camera parts, boards, screws and tape. His pictures give us an enchanting close-up view of...

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[cosmic butterfly]

niceee never realized how psychedelic n full of sacred geometry snowflakes r, thnks for sharing

 

[Global]

Does anyone know why #6 and #9 look colorful? It almost looks like those snowflakes originated from evaporated gasoline or something. Perhaps "acid snow"?...***note to self: acid snow sounds like a great nick name for LSDMT***

 

[Mr.Peabody]

Those are just incredible!

Global,
The colors are caused by thin film light interference. It is the same reason why soap bubbles are colorful. There is no real color to the soap bubbles or the water in the snowflakes, the colors come from the thin film cancelling out certain frequencies of light, while allowing others to pass through.

Which colors are cancelled and which are not is a product of the thickness, so you are actually seeing a colorful depiction of the thickness of the film.

Now, snow with acid in it may be colorful for a completely different reason.....assuming the observer ate some snow recently. :want:

 

[Chairman MAO]

Gorgeous.

Darn, Peabody beat me to my answer. Interference it is.

 

[Elpo]

So cool, unbelievable perfect geometric patterns...

 

[Global]

Those are just incredible!

Global,
The colors are caused by thin film light interference. It is the same reason why soap bubbles are colorful. There is no real color to the soap bubbles or the water in the snowflakes, the colors come from the thin film cancelling out certain frequencies of light, while allowing others to pass through.

Which colors are cancelled and which are not is a product of the thickness, so you are actually seeing a colorful depiction of the thickness of the film.

Now, snow with acid in it may be colorful for a completely different reason.....assuming the observer ate some snow recently. :want:

Thank you for that lesson in color. It's fascinating really.

 

[DreaMTripper]

To me they are like an embodiment of nature itself; beautiful, complex interesting and psychedelic. Does anyone know why they are symetrical?

Heres an idea, get fresh snow and add a sprinkling of sodium carbonate and gently mix it up outside in the cold. Place in dmt and hold a piece of paper over the top of the glass. Get another slightly larger glass and secure a good filter over the top.
Turn first glass upside down and carefuly place it inside 2nd glass.
Leave in house for snow to melt and to filter through hopefully with impurities in.
Remove first glass and dry the filter with clean extract on. Dont know wether that would work ?