Archives for: "February 2010"
Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best - 2010" List
February 20th, 2010The Chicago Public Library recently published its "Best of the Best 2010" list - and The Story of Snow is on it! The library describes the list as including books that are "some of the very best published for kids in 2009." You can see the whole list… more »
More Snowflake Photographs with Classifications
February 17th, 2010I found Jon's post regarding the Magono-Lee Snow Crystal classification system to be quite interesting. Here are some more shots from Monday night - I'll see if I can classify them... something tells me that will be more difficult than it sounds. Let's… more »
Three From This Evening
February 15th, 2010A gentle snow has been falling this evening. Here are some snowflake photos, more will be coming: Click for larger images. - Mark more »
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 »
Another Snow Crystal
February 14th, 2010Here's another snow crystal from last week's shoot - As always, click the image for a larger view. - Mark more »
Two Snow Crystals and a Review
February 10th, 2010Yesterday' snow fizzled by midnight, and the show smiled upon us here in Michigan this morning. On the news I hear about the blizzard in the mid Atlantic, but up here in the snow belt all is calm. Here's another snow crystal from yesterday's storm -… more »
It Snowed Today
February 9th, 2010It snowed today. It's snowing now. At first the snow was hard and driving, wet and clumping. Now the snow is dry and dusty, tiny and incomplete. But between those things it breifly fell, small and well formed, tiny dots just a millimeter or so across.… 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 »
