Frosty Perspectives

These are studies of frost crystal patterns on a window. The differences in colour and brightness are the result of varying transmitted and reflected light due to the crystal orientation.

Images 'A', 'B' ... Canon XT, Tamron 90mm F2.5 macro lens.

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Images 'C', 'D', 'E' ... Canon XT, homebuilt 3:1 macro lens - a reversed Zuiko 50mm F1.8 lens coupled with a Takumar 135mm F3.5 lens. To get a sense of image scale, the large vertical oblong crystal in shot 'C' is approximately 1mm in length.

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Excellent work.Like it all.So nice abstract and specially like silver tones.

Very cool patterns....excellent stuff.

Nice set! Like the last 3 in particular

Wow. Those last 3 are awesome.

Thanks, all. I've taken a couple of frost images in the past but they were of the more noticeable fern and tree-like structures. This was the first time I took a closer look at the more uniform frosty areas on the window. I'm hoping to try more of the same, but will have to wait for some more super-cold weather - so far it's been a very warm winter.