Archives for: "February 2010"
The Window of Many Cacti
February 14th, 2010It’s been two weeks since our last frost, and judging from my first dozen shots, it seemed like my photography skills dropped from mediocre to downright pathetic. But then I got a few good shots of frost on windows. The fact that I shoot windows on cars… more »
How to classify snow crystals
February 14th, 2010According to Edward LaChapelle’s Field Guide to Snow Crystals (1969), the most widely used classification for falling ice is a system of 10 types from the International Commission on Snow and Ice, which came out in 1951. A few years later, ice… more »
I am a giant snow crystal, imperfect thing of habit, bouncing along life's gusts,...
February 6th, 2010Some reviewers of The Story of Snow mistakenly call me the main author. I don't know why they make that mistake - Mark's role as the main author is clearly implied by his copyright on the dedications page and elsewhere. My role was just to check the… more »
Ripples
February 5th, 2010Ripples in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow - Grateful Dead “Ripple” I don’t know where to start on this one. For some time I’ve been seeing concentric circular patterns on car windshields and car bodies – bands of white… more »
Mystery of Whirlpool Hollows
February 3rd, 2010I’ve seen this whirlpool pattern on two mornings on the same plastic side-mirrors of the same car. The hollow columnar crystals are oriented lengthwise along concentric circles, which strongly suggests that an underlying film froze with the same… more »
