Thursday, January 21, 2010

"Snowflake Man's" Photos For Sale

From the Jan. 21st Daily Herald (Chicago suburbs).

Some photos taken by he Vermont farmer who is often called "Snowflake Man" or "Snowflake" Bentley, a pioneering 19th century photographer who took over 5,000 pictures of individual snowflakes will be for sale for the next four days.

He became famous for his observation and experimentation to take the picture of a single flake on a camera. This is called photomicrography where in 1885, he rigged a microscope with a bellows camera.

Today, 26 of his images, ten of them of snowflakes, are going on sale at the four-day American Antiques Show at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

His real name was Wilson Bentley, 1865 to 1931. In 1931, he published a book called "Snow Crystals" which had 2,500 snowflake pictures.

I'd like to have one, but the $4,800 price on each snowflake picture is a bit out of budget.

Is There We Came up With the Old "No Two Snowflakes Alike" Adage? --Cooter

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