February crystals

Images made through a microscope. All subject types.

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February crystals

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This month I had a chance to take my dissecting microscope out into the falling snow. It isn't easy to use in the cold with subjects that you can't get too near to, but a few results turned out well enough that I'd like to share them.

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Very nice!
Did you try capturing/preserving shapes of snowflakes with nail polish coated microscope slides? I read about that somewhere before.
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Post by leonardturner »

A good result from your efforts in the cold! I wonder if these would respond to cross polarization? Probably more trouble than its worth.

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:D Nice.
Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you, everyone. :)
I think I've heard of somehow preparing wax to capture shapes, but not nail polish, which sounds simpler. I imagine good impressions would depend on getting more flat plates, though; here the irregular and 3-D crystals were much more common.

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Post by Chris S. »

Actinophrys, thanks for sharing your lovely images! :D
. . . take my dissecting microscope out into the falling snow. It isn't easy to use in the cold with subjects that you can't get too near to. . . .
Nice job!

Snowflakes are such beautiful and tempting subjects. But when cold, snowy days descend, the gumption to take myself and photo gear out into the weather somehow goes away. Glad it didn't for you! :D

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Post by billben74 »

Very nice images of ice crystals. I particularly like image 5. Wonderful symmetry.

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