Gun Lake in British Columbia, Canada - Frost Flowers
When
these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely
dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different
from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice,
bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The
cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess
weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating
delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high,
like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."
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