snowflakes

Gerald Helbig · Post by **Gerald Helbig** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:36 am

Hello,

in the last two weeks it was really cold in Germany. Good time to take pictures of snowflakes. All images with rheinberg-illumination.

This crystal is quite rare: 12-sided snowflake:

Gerald

crisarg · Post by **crisarg** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:39 am

Very nice series, they are indeed spectacular.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:27 am

Wow, spectacular serie.

Rogelio

Peter De Smidt · Post by **Peter De Smidt** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:22 pm

Great work!

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:12 pm

I wonder if we'll have a snowflake for featured photo 2 months in a row. Photo 1 is perfect

macrochemistry · Post by **macrochemistry** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:04 pm

How did you manage it to keep them cool enough for taking pictures?
Did you make the fotos outside?

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:14 pm

Gerald,

Very beautiful images!
Thanks for posting these!

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:59 am

Hi Gerald,
i was in Berlin two weeks ago and I was surprised when I have seen come down single snow crystals perfectly visible through naked eye!
your subjects looks like jawels!

best
arturo

Gerald Helbig · Post by **Gerald Helbig** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:17 am

Thanks for the many positive comment

@macrochemistry
I took an old microscop with a no name optik outside. I don´t know if the coldness destroy the bonding of the lens. You know it was very cold in germany.

Does anyone have experience with coldness and optics?

@arturo
yes - it was crazy. -15 Grad Celsius and snow was falling. Wonderful single crystals having up to 6 mm diameter. To big for my 5x-objectiv

Bye

Gerald