#Ilike snowflake series#

“About two years ago, I thought it was a good time and decided to put together a state-of-the-art snowflake photography system.but it was a lot harder than I thought.” “In the back of my mind, I thought I’d really like to take snowflake pictures,” Myhrvold says. Myhrvold first got the idea to photograph snowflakes 15 years ago after meeting Kenneth Libbrecht, a California Institute of Technology professor who happened to be studying the physics of snowflakes. He also tapped into his experience as a photographer, most notably as the founder of Modernist Cuisine, a food innovation lab known for its high-resolution photographs of various food stuffs published into a five-volume book of photography of the same name that focuses on the art and science of cooking. Myhrvold, who holds a PhD in theoretical mathematics and physics from Princeton University and served as the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft for 14 years, leaned on his background as a scientist to create the camera.

#Ilike snowflake series#

Now, nearly two years in the making, Myhrvold has developed what he bills as the “highest resolution snowflake camera in the world.” Recently, he released a series of images taken using his creation, a prototype that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before. The colder the weather, the better his chances are of capturing a microscopic photograph of a snowflake. The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but not Nathan Myhrvold.