This is the right question to ask these days, especially if you're a kid under 10 or so, but it's valid for adults of all ages as well. Times are changing and as I have been mentioning in my previous posts here and there, seasons are not the same anymore. The weather is getting warmer each year, which means winters are warmer, spring is slowly disappearing and summers are so hot, you need air conditioning to be able to live a normal life, instead of suffering day and night.
This means snow is as rare as a white raven and if you somehow, by luck you get some snow, you need to go photo shooting right away as the snow is melting like a lemon flavored ice cream on a hot summer day.
It was the penultimate day of the year, the 30th of December, when it started snowing, so I jumped into my boots, took my coat and left to capture some snowy photos.
It was fairly obvious that I would need to be very inventive as the snow on the ground was already melting, a light level of slush was forming, so there was no way I could capture ankle deep, white, untouched snow.
There was a bush at the side of the road, covered by snow, so I took a few photos. Taking macro photos is not the same as shooting some photos randomly on the go, so I had to go closer and check settings, framing and so on. As it happens, people driving by were looking at me like I was doing something illegal.
My plan was to capture individual snow flakes, but it was nearly impossible. If you enlarge the photo or zoom in on a mobile device, you can see the snowflakes, but this wasn't how I wanted.
Individual snowflakes are extremely difficult to capture. You need to be at the right place at the right time, to catch them when they start to fall and the surface is not covered yet. Plus you need a suitable surface so the snowflakes don't melt, a surface of a good color, different from white, to have some contrast between the snowflake and surface.
On the 1st day of the year, at some point it started snowing and we got some snow to enjoy. Good thing I was home and noticed the snowfall in time. My ledge is not the best surface, but till I renovate my balcony, this has to be good.
If you haven't seen snowflakes in real life, only in cartoons or story books, here it is. This is how they look like.
I bet most of you, who have never seen snow, have an idea how the snowflakes look like, from the story books. Those are perfectly designed to look good, but you won't find that kind of precision in real life. In real life nothing is perfect. If you look closely, you can find some nice ones on the photo above.
Taking good photos in these conditions is extremely difficult. I only have my mobile phone camera, which is good, I can't really complain, but this type of macro is challenging.
My last snowflake photo shoot was three years ago I think and I remember I wanted to somehow show the readers how big a snowflake is, so I put my finger next to a snowflake and melted instantly :) Lesson learnt, so no demonstration of size this year, but trust me, they are tiny.
Look at these. Do they look like the ones you know from story books or designs on all kinds of Christmas decorations?
Most of the times you don't get a snowflake by itself, they are coming down in groups, or stuck together and then you get a bunch of them.
Apologies for the quality of the photos, I tried my best, but it's far from what I'd like, which is why I'm not posting these in a photo community.
Tomorrow, according to the weather forecast, it's going to snow, heavily, in the afternoon. This is good news for me, so I'm going to be ready, hoping to take some better photos, if it starts snowing before dark. Fingers crossed.
Have you ever seen what a snowflake looks like? let me know in a comment.
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They are not Hivers, so they can't understand haha
Milyen szépek a hópelyhek ❄️
Enjoy the tomorrow's snowfall ☃️
𐲙𐳀 𐳐𐳍𐳉𐳙⹁ 𐳀 𐳘𐳀𐳐 𐳏𐳀𐳮𐳀𐳯𐳁𐳤. 𐲀𐳯 𐳫𐳎 𐳮𐳛𐳖𐳦⹁ 𐳏𐳛𐳎 𐳘𐳀 𐳇𐳋𐳖𐳪𐳦𐳁𐳙 𐳓𐳉𐳖𐳖𐳉𐳦𐳦 𐳮𐳛𐳖𐳙𐳀 𐳏𐳀𐳮𐳀𐳯𐳯𐳛𐳙⹁ 𐳇𐳉 𐳢𐳉𐳍𐳍𐳉𐳖 𐳘𐳁𐳢 𐳂𐳛𐳓𐳁𐳐𐳍 𐳋𐳢𐳟 𐳏𐳜𐳢𐳀 𐳋𐳂𐳢𐳉𐳇𐳦𐳉𐳘⹁ 𐳀𐳘𐳐⹁ 𐳂𐳁𐳢 𐳘𐳋𐳍 𐳘𐳐𐳙𐳇𐳐𐳍 𐳏𐳀𐳮𐳀𐳯𐳛𐳦𐳦⹁ 𐳀 𐳘𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳍 𐳘𐳐𐳀𐳦𐳦 𐳘𐳁𐳢 𐳓𐳉𐳯𐳇𐳉𐳦𐳦 𐳛𐳖𐳮𐳀𐳇𐳛𐳯𐳙𐳐. 𐲀 𐳠𐳁𐳢𐳓𐳁𐳚 𐳮𐳐𐳯𐳉𐳤 𐳮𐳛𐳖𐳦⹁ 𐳀 𐳏𐳜 𐳀𐳯𐳛𐳙𐳙𐳀𐳖 𐳉𐳖𐳛𐳖𐳮𐳀𐳇𐳦 𐳢𐳀𐳒𐳦𐳀. 𐲥𐳜𐳮𐳀𐳖 𐳉𐳖𐳤𐳉𐳒𐳋𐳙 𐳙𐳀𐳎 𐳥𐳉𐳢𐳉𐳙𐳆𐳋𐳘 𐳮𐳛𐳖𐳦⹁ 𐳘𐳉𐳢𐳦 𐳘𐳀 𐳓𐳐𐳯𐳁𐳢𐳦⹁ 𐳏𐳛𐳎 𐳀 𐳖𐳀𐳨𐳀𐳓𐳛𐳙 𐳓𐳑𐳮𐳬𐳖 𐳂𐳁𐳢𐳘𐳐 𐳘𐳁𐳤𐳦 𐳖𐳉𐳙𐳆𐳉𐳮𐳋𐳍𐳢𐳉 𐳓𐳀𐳠𐳒𐳀𐳓. 😆
Exactly! 😎😆
𐲏𐳁𐳦 𐳐𐳍𐳉𐳙⹁ 𐳀𐳠𐳪𐳓𐳁𐳘 𐳐𐳤 𐳘𐳁𐳢 𐳘𐳀 𐳢𐳉𐳍𐳍𐳉𐳖 𐳓𐳬𐳖𐳇𐳞𐳦𐳦 𐳙𐳉𐳓𐳉𐳘 𐳉𐳎 𐳮𐳐𐳇𐳉𐳜𐳦 𐳀𐳯 𐳪𐳦𐳄𐳁𐳢𐳜𐳖 𐳀 𐳏𐳁𐳯𐳪𐳓 𐳉𐳖𐳟𐳦𐳦⹁ 𐳋𐳤 𐳘𐳐𐳙𐳇𐳉𐳙𐳦 𐳮𐳀𐳤𐳦𐳀𐳍 𐳏𐳜𐳢𐳋𐳦𐳉𐳍 𐳂𐳛𐳢𐳑𐳦𐳛𐳦𐳦.
😁 ⛄️
𐲘𐳛𐳤𐳦 𐳘𐳋𐳍 𐳦𐳞𐳂𐳂 𐳏𐳜 𐳮𐳀𐳙 𐳀𐳯 𐳪𐳦𐳄𐳁𐳓𐳛𐳙⹁ 𐳙𐳀𐳎𐳛𐳙 𐳙𐳉𐳏𐳋𐳯 𐳒𐳁𐳢𐳙𐳐⹁ 𐳌𐳟𐳖𐳉𐳍 𐳛𐳦𐳦⹁ 𐳀𐳏𐳛𐳖 𐳤𐳉𐳙𐳓𐳐 𐳤𐳉𐳘 𐳦𐳀𐳓𐳀𐳢𐳑𐳦⹁ 𐳇𐳉 𐳦𐳫𐳖𐳋𐳖𐳒𐳬𐳓 𐳮𐳀𐳖𐳀𐳏𐳛𐳎 😆⛄️❄️
𐲒𐳀𐳒⹁ 𐳉𐳯 𐳀 𐳘𐳀𐳆𐳉𐳓 𐳘𐳐𐳗𐳉𐳙 𐳄𐳪𐳓𐳐 🤩
𐲀𐳓𐳓𐳛𐳢 𐳦𐳉𐳤𐳤𐳋𐳓 𐳛𐳦𐳦𐳏𐳛𐳙 𐳘𐳀𐳢𐳀𐳇𐳙𐳐 𐳋𐳤 𐳘𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳍𐳉𐳇𐳙𐳐 😁
𐲙𐳁𐳖𐳪𐳙𐳓 𐳉𐳍𐳋𐳥 𐳙𐳀𐳠 𐳉𐳤𐳟𐳯𐳐𐳓 ⛈️
𐲙𐳁𐳖𐳪𐳙𐳓 𐳓𐳋𐳦 𐳙𐳀𐳠 𐳏𐳀𐳮𐳀𐳯𐳁𐳤𐳦 𐳘𐳛𐳙𐳇⹁ 𐳀𐳯𐳦𐳁𐳙 𐳒𐳞𐳙 -𐳻𐳺𐳺𐳺𐳺𐲄 𐲠𐳋𐳙𐳦𐳉𐳓𐳉𐳙 😂
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I saw snow only once, in 2009, the only time it snowed in my hometown, and it was at night. I went out at 6 o'clock in the morning to take pictures, but I never managed to see the flakes like that... because they started to melt very fast... Goodness gracious what a beauty!!!! I can see them clearly, how beautiful! Thank you!😍
I was hoping to get some better photos today, but it seems like I was lucky to get these photos on the 1st, because today it's not cold, the snow is wet and it's a big slush outside, snowflakes are melting on the wet ledge already.
You're welcome @avdesing! I'm glad you liked the snowflakes, not many have ever seen individual snowflakes :)
Every day nature surprises us with such beautiful things! Have a wonderful day!
Thanks, you too.
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