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Sunday, 22 December 2013

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Hex appeal

a href="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5505/11499520066_e0e8112a52_o.jpg" title="Snowflake macro photo: Hex appeal - small hexagonal plate crystal by Alexey Kljatov" data-lightbox="Hex_appeal_snowflake" data-title="Hex appeal. Prints available: Artist website, RedBubble.com">Snowflake...
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Saturday, 21 December 2013

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Don Komarechka. "Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes" - snowflake photography book

This book written by my friend from Canada, professional photographer Don Komarechka (Website, Google+, Facebook, Flickr). This excellent 9x9" size hardcover book (containing 304 pages), along with fantastic snowflake photography, will detail the science, photography techniques...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

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Snowflakes - printable versions, part II

 >> snowflakes - printable versions, part ITrying to do something with low resolution of snowflake shots. I enlarged pictures 2x using SmartEdge demo, free resampling program. It works very slow, but produces output with good looking lines and edges and preserves textures...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013

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Relief

Small snowflake, around 2 millimeters in diameter (companion crystal proportionally smaller). 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, december 2012, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 1200 x 900 pixels.If...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

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New design of Tumblr page

New beautiful design of page chaoticmind75.tumblr.com is made entirely by Lucy Hartman.Thank you very much, Luc...
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Sunday, 1 December 2013

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Planetary system

Group of small snowflakes, 1-2 millimeters. 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 2256 x 1692 pixels.If you want to see more snowflakes, you can...
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