Captured some strange lights with my digital camera last week…
Amoeboid UFOs? Not exactly. Actually it was just my kids with some dollar store glowsticks. They waved them around in a dark hallway, and by simply turning the camera flash off, this is what I ended up with.
Sort of neat, though, don’t you think? Best $2 we ever spent. Damned things glowed for two days, too.
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 05-07-2008 | 12:05 AM
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On Boxing Day in Woodstock, Ont., we woke up to see an amazing glazing of spiky frost covering everything. The walnut tree behind my mother’s house looked more like an acacia, and I had to go outside to see the spikes up close.
Some were about 3 cm long, and so light that they almost flaked off when you looked at them. It was mild out, and as the morning sun rose the flakes fluttered down from above like the lightest snowfall imagineable.
I gather this is what’s called hoarfrost, which forms when it’s mild and windless. The lengths of the crystals were almost unbelievable, like those ads for the ultimate mascara want you to believe.
Magic.
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 12-30-2007 | 12:12 AM
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