Frost Photos
... Some contributed pictures of different types of
frost and ice ... |
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People
have sent me numerous pictures of frost and ice formations over the
years. Some of these
are shown here. If you would like to contribute a picture or two,
or just have a comment, please send an e-mail. |
Window
Frost |
The pictures above were sent by David Southwick, who writes: "One
of those old-fashioned single-pane windows is my east-facing kitchen
window. As a photographer, my favorite pictures are those with the
sun rising behind the frost, creating incredible colors. The frost
on these windows melts nearly every morning soon after sunrise, even
during a northern Vermont winter, so each morning brings a new
crystalline complex. Sunrise is different each morning, creating a color
scheme as varied as the crystals themselves. |
Clif Maloney took the picture at right "... while at the Rock Island
Arsenal, Illinois. The frost formed on single-pane windows on the
third floor of a building built in 1867. The windows were about 100 feet
above the ground. The temp was -3F. The pictures were taken with a
Nikon digital camera, f2.8 on macro, at about 1/2 inch."
The frost "spines" you see in this picture probably delineate small
streaks or scratches in the glass. Window frost formations are
often strongly influenced by such imperfections, which act as
condensation sites. |
You can find more excellent
window frost pictures
here
and here. |
Hoarfrost |
John Snell sent the picture at right, showing some large hoarfrost
crystals attached to a stalk of grass. He comments that "the best
formed in a low, swampy corner of a field where a lot of water had
collected under the snow during the past couple of days.
Night-time temperatures dropped from 40F to 14F and, voila, miracles."
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Walter Tape sent this picture of an exceptionally large hoarfrost
crystal plucked from a permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. |
Mark Passolt sent this picture from Bergen, Norway. He comments
that "Bergen is on the coast, giving high humidity, and the temperatures
are frequently near freezing. We get lots of frost and have gotten
used to seeing large crystals."
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Frost Flowers |
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Frost flowers attracts
a lot of attention (and cameras) when they appear. The
above photos were contributed by (from left to right) Bob Bruyn, Vince
DiCarlo, and Paul Nickelson. |
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