Frozen Soap Bubbles: ZALUSKArt’s −15 °C Film and the Snow-Globe Effect
A clear soap bubble rests on fresh snow. Within seconds, feathery ice crystals appear on its skin, swirl around the sphere and knit together...
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Frozen Soap Bubbles at −15 °C in Warsaw: ZALUSKArt's Photos and the Science
When his three-year-old daughter refused to wear her jacket and asked how cold it really was, Warsaw photographer and filmmaker Pablo Zalus...
Ice Crystals Timelapse: Shawn Knol’s Melting Ice in Polarized Light
Ordinary ice is clear, yet in Shawn Knol's Ice Crystals Timelapse it glows in shifting bands of magenta, gold, green and blue as it me...
Frozen Soap Bubbles: The Science of the Snow-Globe Effect
Blow a soap bubble on a bitterly cold day, set it down on ice, and within seconds feathery crystals begin to swirl across its skin until th...
Snowflake Formation: How Snow Crystals Grow Their Six Branching Arms
Every snowflake begins as a speck of dust or pollen high in a cloud and grows, molecule by molecule, into a six-armed crystal. Chris Calver...
Ice and Snow Formations: 22 Frozen Wonders, from Baikal to Lake Michigan
Ice and snow make some of the most delicate sculptures in nature. Soap bubbles freeze into crystal globes, freezing rain wraps grass and be...
Angela Kelly’s Frozen Bubbles: Photos and the Science of Freezing Soap Film
On a freezing December morning in 2013, Washington State photographer Angela Kelly went outside with her son and a home-made bubble mixture...
Snowflake Close-Ups: 18 Photographs and the Science of Six-Sided Crystals
Every snowflake begins as a tiny hexagon of ice, and the best macro photographs show how far that simple start can go: six feathery arms, s...
Alexey Kljatov’s Snowflake Macro Photos and His DIY Camera Rig
Alexey Kljatov photographs snowflakes on the open balcony of his flat in Moscow, using a compact Canon camera and a Soviet-era lens mounted...