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A Photograph of Snowflakes by Gustav Helman

Bentley was an obsessive loner from Jericho Vermon whose photos were perceived to be kind of more faithful to nature than anybody else's But that was until this other guy came on the scene, a German meteorologist named Gustav Helman. They basically thought Bentley was a fraud There was a particular way that Bentley prepared his photographs What he would do is he would use a penknife to scrape the negative around the snow crystal Which is what gave it that kind of nice black background. He also let his knife play deep inside the heart of the crystals So that fully arbitrary figures emerged. Does the ideal snowflake exist in nature? You think there are such things, exquisitely beautiful? I

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