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| Wilson Bentley |
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| Wilson Bentley |
Whether you ski in it, snowboard in it, make snowmen with it, build shelters from it, or just watch it from the comfort of an armchair next to a nice, warm fire, there's no denying that snow is one of water's more spectacular forms. Way back before electron microscopes and mile-long zoom lenses, a Vermonter named Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) used a bellows camera and a microscope to take the first successful close-up of a snowflake. Pretty amazing for a self-educated farmer living in the late 1800s. "Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty," he said later,
"and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and
appreciated by others.” By the time of his death, he had photographed more than 5,000 of the little crystalline marvels (story, slideshow):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160102-vintage-snowflake-pictures/#/
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