 | | 21/12/2013 15:50
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Tiny Miracles Of Beauty
The first pictures of snowflakes were taken by Wilson Bentley who is remembered as Snowflake Bentley. He was an amateur photographer--a farmer by trade really he became interested in snowflakes in his youth and poetically referred to them as "tiny miracles of beauty" and snow crystals as "ice flowers." Adding poetry to the actual process he caught them on a black velvet in order to photograph them before they melted away. Ever since reading about him in junior high I still have this image imprinted in my mind of a simple man dancing wildly through a field in winter with a blanket of black velvet in his arms and smiling blissfully as he carried each small collection of...
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