Snowflake Photo - Capped Column

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Snowflake Photo - Capped Column

Artist

Alexey Kljatov

Medium

Photograph - Macro Photograph

Description

This is unusual and interesting snowflake of capped column type. Unlike hollow columns, these crystals have caps on both ends. Caps (they looks like two usual snowflakes with hexagonal symmetry, which grown parallel to each other at the ends of central column) varied in size, can be simple hexagons or have arms, though usually two caps of same crystal grows almost perfectly identical (thanks to small size of the crystal), and whole snowflake looks very strange, but symmetrical.

These crystals usually bigger than typical hollow columns, and some specimens, which i've seen, almost reached 2 millimeters in length. But still, these snowflake are quite small for naked eye, and many people never seen them. In fact, capped column snowflake is not rare thing: during many snowfalls you'll see no single one, but some snow storms brings huge amount of these crystals, separated or in clusters. In this case, they can be seen even with naked eye, if you'll catch some falling snow on dark backdrop (like black woolen mitten) - this will create enough contrast for our eyes.

Caps of these snowflakes have hexagonal symmetry, like most other snow crystals, but, because two caps and column are formed as single crystal, these snowflakes are true 12-sided snow crystals, unlike bigger and "flat" snowflakes with twelve arms, which formed from two separate snowflakes, collided in the air and continued growth as one crystal (according to Kenneth Libbrecht's "Guide to snowflakes").

These snowflakes are difficult target for photographers because of volumetric shape and small size. 8 identical RAW photos, taken as short series, was aligned and averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this image. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (from gray cloudy sky), external optics Helios 44, january 2013, Moscow, Russia.

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December 9th, 2013

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