No Two Exactly Alike
by Penny Meyers
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No Two Exactly Alike
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Penny Meyers
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After a very light snowfall, I was able to capture these individual snowflakes standing up and standing out from the rest of the newly fallen snow.
Snowflakes are conglomerations of frozen ice crystals which fall through the Earth's atmosphere. They begin as snow crystals which develop when microscopic supercooled cloud droplets freeze. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity regimes, such that individual snowflakes are nearly unique in structure.
A non-aggregated snowflake often exhibits six-fold radial symmetry. The initial symmetry can occur because the crystalline structure of ice is six-fold. The six "arms" of the snowflake, or dendrites, then grow independently, and each side of each arm grows independently. Most snowflakes are not completely symmetric. The micro-environment in which the snowflake grows changes dynamically as the snowflake falls through the cloud, and tiny changes in temperature and humidity affect the way in which water molecules attach to the snowflake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake
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January 3rd, 2013
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Laurel Adams
Penny, thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU for taking my breath away...from the angle this capture is taken, I can imagine you lying face level in the snow, chilled to the bone capturing these amazing views for us all...BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL!...v...LF...Best to you
Deborah A Andreas
This is an amazing capture of these snowflakes! So detailed. I love snowflake designs. I have been creating paper cutouts of them for years now. Fave!
Penny Meyers
Feeling honored today, as Outdoor Photographer Magazine has chosen to use this image to promote their current assignment on their website and Facebook page, February 2014. I had submitted it last year during a similar assignment, and they apparently pulled it from the archives now. http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/gallery/assignments.html
Bianca Nadeau
Wonderful winter photo Penny. Love the crispness! Congrats on your win in the contest! :-) v
Inge Wright
What a lovely photograph. If we could only see snow like that!!!
Penny Meyers replied:
Thank you so much, Inge!! So true, we might actually enjoy it if we could see the beautiful detail in each flake!
Deb Halloran
Penny, Congratulations on your First place win in the Previous Winter Photographs Contest. This is still one of my very favorite images in your gallery. This is a revisit for me and it would not take another vote. Congrats:)))
Penny Meyers replied:
Oh wow, thanks so much, Deb, for your recognition and ongoing support and encouragement... they are all truly appreciated!!!
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