A short documentary about Snowflake Bentley - Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931), the first man to ever photograph a snowflake.

Par: chucksmithNYC
Durée: 8.55 min.
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Votes: 4.9444447

"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind." Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley 1925

Par: Artsartisan
Durée: 4.85 min.
Consultations: 4946
Votes: 5.0

The Jericho Historical Society snowflakebentley.com snowflakebentley.com The Buffalo Museum of Science (biography): www.bentley.sciencebuff.org The Buffalo Museum of Science (photography Process): www.bentley.sciencebuff.org commons.wikimedia.org vermontsnowflakes.com www.jacquelinebriggsmartin.com ------------------ en.wikipedia.org Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (February 7, 1865 - December 23, 1931), born at Jericho in the US state of Vermont, is the first known photographer of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated. He first became interested in snow crystals as a teenager on his family farm. He tried to draw what he saw through an old microscope given to him by his mother when he was fifteen. The snowflakes were too complex to record before they melted, so he attached a bellows camera to a compound microscope and, after much experimentation, photographed his first snowflake on January 15, 1885. He would capture over 5000 images of crystals in his lifetime. Each crystal was caught on a blackboard and transferred rapidly to a microscope slide. Even at subzero temperatures, snowflakes are ephemeral because they sublimate. Bentley's work can be seen as occupying the intersection of the arts and the sciences. Bentley poetically described snowflakes as "tiny miracles of beauty" and snow crystals as "ice flowers." Bentley's work gained attention in the ...

Par: PhotographyMasters
Durée: 1.85 min.
Consultations: 11829
Votes: 4.9

Sam Botta: I asked you the secret of lifetime love (two years before)... And you said your man at the time adores you... Tanya Roberts: My man died 18 months ago after 25 years of a beautiful marriage, I grew up with him, and he did adore me, I adored him, and that's what happens, I'm lucky to have had 25 years of outrageous love and friendship. SB: How did you get through the pain? TR: If I didn't pull myself together I wouldn't have been able to keep him alive and take care of him, that's what you do. It's Nothing heroic you just do it. You don't want to see the one you love totally screwed up.. and you manage. I love you. www.imdb.me/livefearless IMDB.COM: www.imdb.com Tanya Roberts came from modest beginnings in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of a pen salesman (Irish) and a mother (Jewish) who were divorced before she reached high school. Tanya dropped out of high school at age 15, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled. She met psychology student Barry Roberts in New York while waiting in line to see a movie. A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married. .. Beautiful love story. Secretly hope. Live life with the kind of love that lasts. The memories, the hopes, the dreams. Never forgetting.

Par: sambotta
Durée: 0.90 min.
Consultations: 47
Votes: 0