Snowflake by Dr Jason Persoff, courtesy of PetaPixel
Toronto. The other night my wife was on the Weather Chanel when she spotted a story about a photographer who captured images of snowflakes. We couldn’t find the short video again and the name of the photographer was forgotten, but not the basic idea of his camera and lens.
We searched at length on the Weather Channel and the internet but had no luck. A few days later, I spotted the video on my iPod Touch (in the Weather Channel app). Once I saw the video and knew the photographer’s name, it was easy to find him and the video on the internet.
The images were taken by a Jason Persoff, On smugmug.com shown here, the tag line says “SEVERE WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY under his storm doctor web site (actually the link goes to his SmugMug page). Dr Persoff was born in Denver and continues to live in Colorado. Visit his page on SmugMug and read his story on PetaPixel (Photographer Seeks Perfectly Formed Snowflakes for Magical Photo Series) or Pinterest (Snowflakes and Winter – Jason Persoff).
Photographs of snowflakes have been taken for decades now using film cameras. Dr Persoff uses a Digital camera with extension tubes and a macro lens. And the black background? It’s from the sock he uses to catch snowflakes and decide which is worthy of a photograph! PS. Dr Persoff finds Photoshop a big help to merge the many images of a single snowflake rendering the tiny crystals in sharp focus.
