Winter's Dance

by Kathy Bassett

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Winter's Dance

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Kathy Bassett

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Photograph - Photography

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Wonderful! First Place in January Contest, Snow and Stillness! Thank you! 2/22
A quick sun break in this gloomy overcast day, reveals a frosty fandango happening in the freshly fallen snow. The magnification shows incorrectly the nature of this photo. Orders will be more accurately shown by correct sizing.
Winner: 1/2019 Contest, Simplicity
!WINNER~ First Place in contest, Personification!
Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight. In temperate climates it most commonly appears as fragile white crystals or frozen dew drops near the ground, but in cold climates it occurs in a greater variety of forms.Frost is composed of delicate branched patterns of ice crystals formed as the result of fractal process development.Hoar frost may have different names depending on where it forms:
air hoar is a deposit of hoar frost on objects above the surface, such as tree branches, plant stems, and wires;
surface hoar refers to fern-like ice crystals directly deposited on snow, ice or already frozen surfaces;
crevasse hoar consists of crystals that form in glacial crevasses where water vapour can accumulate under calm weather conditions;
depth hoar refers to faceted crystals that have slowly grown large within cavities beneath the surface of banks of dry snow. Depth hoar crystals grow continuously at the expense of neighbouring smaller crystals, so typically are visibly stepped and have faceted hollows.

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February 1st, 2015

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