Snowflake Bentley's 150th B-day

[handmade34]

http://snowflakebentley.com/bio.htm

A self educated farmer, Bentley attracted world attention with his pioneering work in the area of photomicrography, most notably his extensive work with snow crystals (commonly known as snowflakes). By adapting a microscope to a bellows camera, and years of trial and error, he became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885.

http://www.jerichohistoricalsociety.org/

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Wow, that was a long time ago!

I am pleasantly surprised to know that he was able to do this at that time.

[handmade34]

2. yes, very cool...

one of Vermont's own! funny, while Snowflake Bentley was doing awesome innovative photography, my family was a couple of hills over running the local Tavern

The brewery is the revival and continuation of 220 years of Hill heritage and hand crafted history in North Greensboro, Vermont. Its logo is retrieved from a sign that once hung in Aaron Hill's (our great(x3) grandfather) tavern, just up the hill, in the early 1800s.

http://hillfarmstead.com/ancestral-series/

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. What a fantastic story!

Thanks for this Handmade34!