View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Kevin Shank. No sooner had the February magazine gone to the printer than we had snow again, probably that very night. One of my goals after last...
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Favorite Focus, February 2025
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Treasures of the Snow
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Snowflake design. Photo © Don Komarechka. As I write, I am also looking out the window and seeing lazy snowflakes silently swirling, floating, twirling...
End of the Trail, January 2025: Snowflake
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Split crystal dendrite. Photo © Don Komarechka.This snowflake has been a favorite ever since I first saw it in Don Komarechka’s book, Sky Crystals. I am...
Treasures of the Snow: How I Learned to Photograph Them
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: With the focus on snowflakes in this issue, I decided to go back Memory Lane and pick up the first time we wrote about snowflake...
Focus Illustrated, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: After Priscilla Wenger’s lesson came out in March 2011, Ezra Morley used her lesson as a springboard. This is a reprint of his story from...
End of the Trail, December 2022: Snowflakes
Focusing on Close-ups
A microscope was used to magnify this snowflake. An adapter went onto an SLR camera body as if it were the lens, then the adapter slipped into the eyepiece tube in lieu of the eyepiece. Another,...
Scavenger Hunt, February 2022
Exploring Nature, January 2022
By mid-January, the wintering eagle population peaks in Virginia.Look at snowflake designs under a microscope.Bucks are shedding their antlers.January and February are the most popular months to...
