This ice crystal was sitting on the window of the barn. I pimped up the colours a bit using Lightroom.
At first, you don't really see them, but when you start paying attention, they are there!
Ice crystals form in air that is cold and contains a lot of water. Ice crystals form because water molecules stick to dust particles floating in the air. There are different dust particles to which water molecules stick: salt, sand, clay, volcanic ash, dust coming from factories. Ice crystals form when it is -4 to -15 degrees Celsius in the air.
When I had photographed an ice crystal earlier, I noticed that there were many "rumblings" on the window and wanted to start lapping the window in case it froze again. Fortunately, I now found out in time that you shouldn't be ragging windows precisely because they graft on tiny dust particles.
I'm 56 years old and I love to read and photograph. I don't have a special photography interest; I like a lot of subjects and so it's worthwhile to photograph. (Extreme) macro I really like to do, but I don't do stacking and I also edit as little as.. Read more…