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Stars of Snow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

John Gustav Delly*
Affiliation:
McCrone Research Institute

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“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail.”

Job 38:22

A number of years ago, I produced a Christmas card which featured a snowflake in the unusual form of a Christmas tree. To enhance the suggestion of “evergreen”, I photographed it by transmitted light with a green filter (Wratten No. 58) in the light path. It has been almost twenty years since the card appeared, and in that time I have had many occasions to project the original 35-mm transparency, When I do show it, I mention that particular snowflake was captured during a snowfall in Chicago on January 17, 1971.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1998

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