Snowflakes in Photographs |  | Author: W. A. Bentley
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 150,964
Media: Paperback
Edition: First American edition.
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486412539
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.57841
EAN: 9780486412535
ASIN: 0486412539
Publication Date: September 18, 2000
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Product Description
Remarkable revelations of nature’s diversity, revealed in hundreds of snowflake images taken by American photographer W .A. Bentley during a 50-year period. Over 850 illustrations of snow crystals, with no two designs exactly alike, will inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople in search of extraordinary patterns for textiles, wallpaper, and other creative projects.
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 Gotta have it! February 24, 2006
J. Patterson (Utah)
The wonderful thing about this book is that Snowflake Bentley actually took these photos. It is a "must have" companion to the book named after him.
Children loved it. March 19, 2007
Teacher Joanne (Pennsylvania)
I read Snowflake Bently to a group of four year old children. They loved the idea that it was a true story. The next day I presented this book and the kids couldn't get enough.
Great book! February 22, 2008
Dianne Yee (Bellevue, WA)
Snowflakes in Photographs
You can't imagine the variety of design in each individual snowflake until you these photographs. From simple to complex, these photos show how absolutely symmetrical and stunning these fragile crystals are.
Candy-colored, Snowflake Biome May 9, 2008
Scott M. Kruse (Fresno, CA USA)
Bentley photographed the ephemeral and hidden: snowflakes. He did this on his own with limited education and equipment. His glass plates remind us of the awe, beauty and wonder of frozen water. The book reveals Bentley's efforts on his Vermont farm over his lifetime. His dedication and creativity help us grasp the complexity, simplicity and three-dimensional images of snow. Snow is the most unstable substance on earth - always changing, even while it is forming in the atmosphere, falling through the atmosphere, depositing on a ground surface (water, soil, fence, glass, trees), sublimating (going directly from a solid to a vapor), hoar frost depositing out of a saturated clear atmosphere at night to produce a fairly land in at sunrise, going through continuous metamorphism (melt-freeze, temperature gradient, equitemperature gradient) and finally melting to return to the liquid form of the hydrologic cycle.
Bentley's photographs enable us all to grasp snow from nursery to graduate school - the images all make sense - physically and mentally. Many images have been transformed into ornaments, framed photographs and other high end works of art.
Snowflakes are originals. December 27, 2009
Joseph Mastropaolo (California, USA)
Snowflakes in Photographs proves that each snowflake is an original. The probability of being wrong is less than 0.0002, a standard respected by scientists worldwide.
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