The Snowflake

Take a deeper look at the unique, hidden beauty of winter with the world's foremost snowflake expert and photographer.In 2003, "The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty" intrigued readers and reviewers with its breathtaking, close-up, highly detailed photographs of snow crystals. This new edition of th [...]
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Take a deeper look at the unique, hidden beauty of winter with the world's foremost snowflake expert and photographer.In 2003, "The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty" intrigued readers and reviewers with its breathtaking, close-up, highly detailed photographs of snow crystals. This new edition of the book retains the lighthearted, popular-science tone of the original and naturally still focuses on what snowflakes are, how they form in clouds, why they have six-fold symmetry, why they have facets and branches, the many different types of snowflakes, and why no two look alike.A decade's worth of new photographs from northern Ontario, Vermont, Alaska, Michigan, northern Sweden, and Japan, including more beautiful crystals, improved photographic techniques, higher-resolution images, better examples of crystal types, and a much wider variety of illumination methods make this version even more lovely than its predecessor.Author Kenneth N. Libbrecht's fascinating new material on snowflake photography, winter clouds and snowflakes, ice halos, skiing, snowballs, artificial snow, avalanches, and frost formations round out the book. No one who has ever caught snowflakes on their tongue or simply marveled at a winter wonderland will want to miss it