[Rockhounds] These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes

[Tim Fisher]

I've seen him on some food shows, the guy is a virtual encyclopedia. He gave
a demonstration on how to make perfect espresso with a gizmo or 3 that blew
my mind. His food books are worth the hundred bucks they fetch for the
photos alone. Not that I'm ordering one lol.

Tim Fisher
Http://OreRockOn.com 
Email nospam at orerockon.com


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Snowflakes

The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but
not Nathan Myhrvold. The colder the weather, the better his chances are of
capturing a microscopic photograph of a snowflake. Now, nearly two years in
the making, Myhrvold has developed what he bills as the “highest resolution
snowflake camera in the world.” Recently, he released a series of images
taken using his creation, a prototype that captures snowflakes at a
microscopic level never seen before.

Myhrvold, who holds a PhD in theoretical mathematics and physics from
Princeton University and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft
for 14 years, leaned on his background
<http://www.nathanmyhrvold.com/index.php/about/cv> as a scientist to create
the camera. He also tapped into his experience as a photographer, most
notably as the founder of Modernist Cuisine
<https://modernistcuisine.com/about/>, a food innovation lab known for its
high-resolution photographs
<https://modernistcuisinegallery.com/collection/> of various food stuffs
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-spectacular-cutaways-gi
ve-you-an-insiders-view-of-your-food-6948699/>
published
into a five-volume book
<https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007/
ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/140-8585420-6846223?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0982761007&pd_r
d_r=b48f5a9a-0623-4a76-aa41-650a7b21106b&pd_rd_w=b1Ikg&pd_rd_wg=kFJim&pf_rd_
p=f325d01c-4658-4593-be83-3e12ca663f0e&pf_rd_r=6H32QAN0MNC00AS331B5&psc=1&re
fRID=6H32QAN0MNC00AS331B5>
of
photography of the same name that focuses on the art and science of cooking.
Myhrvold first got the idea to photograph snowflakes 15 years ago after
meeting Kenneth Libbrecht, <https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/> a
California Institute of Technology professor who happened to be studying the
physics of snowflakes.

“In the back of my mind, I thought I’d really like to take snowflake
pictures,” Myhrvold says. “About two years ago, I thought it was a good time
and decided to put together a state-of-the-art snowflake photography
system...but it was a lot harder than I thought.”

Photographing snowflakes is nothing new. In the late 1880s, a Vermont farmer
by the name of Wilson Bentley
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/202
0/12/21/why-scientists-find-snowflakes-cool/>
began
shooting snowflakes at a microscopic level on his farm. Today he's
considered a pioneer for his work, which is part of the Smithsonian
Institution Archives
<https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/wilson-bentley-pi
oneering-photographer-snowflakes>.
His photography is considered the inspiration for the common wisdom that “no
two snowflakes are alike.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photo
s-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710/
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