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Uploaded by: redagainPatti — Saturday January 9, 2010 — Starkville, MS (Current Weather Conditions)

I took this from across the road from this house, trying to catch the little bits of glitter like snow flakes that were floating in the cold air. They were so very tiny in our very cold air and with this under a blue sky, it was just plain odd!

Categories: cold snap, snow, winter, from the sky Camera Type: Canon PowerShot G9
 
Manufacturer: Canon
Model: Canon PowerShot G9
Orientation: top - left
x-Resolution: 72.00
y-Resolution: 72.00
Resolution Unit: Inch
Software: QuickTime 7.6.4
YCbCr Positioning: centered
Compression: JPEG compression
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec.
FNumber: f/5.6
ISO Speed Ratings: 400
Exif Version: Exif Version 2.2
Components Configuration: Y Cb Cr -
Compressed Bits per Pixel: 3.00
Shutter speed: 8.66 EV (APEX: 20, 1/403 sec.)
Aperture: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
MaxApertureValue: 4.53 EV (f/4.8)
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode.
Focal Length: 44.4 mm
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FlashPixVersion: FlashPix Version 1.0
Color Space: sRGB
PixelXDimension: 4000
PixelYDimension: 3000
Focal Plane x-Resolution: 16845.23
Focal Plane y-Resolution: 16787.53
Focal Plane Resolution Unit: Inch
Sensing Method: One-chip color area sensor
File Source: DSC
Custom Rendered: Normal process
Exposure Mode: Auto exposure
White Balance: Auto white balance
Digital Zoom Ratio: 1.23
Scene Capture Type: Standard
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1. malemutemom 11:46 AM GMT on January 09, 2010    
How neat! You captured it! Trust me, as an experienced snow lover, that looks like the real McCoy! :>)
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2. Kennebunker 12:00 PM GMT on January 09, 2010    
Your composition of line from the stairs and rails adds an interesting backdrop to your focus of the flakes. Nice.
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3. littlejeanie 2:34 PM GMT on January 09, 2010    
Your explanation explains it all! This is very odd. The only way I can think it would happen is if there are clouds a small distance away and it is windy at the time the picture was taken.
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4. redagainPatti 2:39 PM GMT on January 09, 2010    
OH.. it was plain windy.. so that might have been it.. but I am reading that snow can be formed from the very air around if, IF IT IS cold enough. I have written Jeff Masters with my question, "Can that happen?"
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5. redagainPatti 11:30 PM GMT on January 09, 2010    
ok.. have some answers - check out this link -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_dust

So what I saw and the rest of our school is Diamond Dust. How cool!
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redagainPatti The nick, redagain is short for the words - "Redwoods again". It stands for a goal to sleep again in a tent under the Redwood Trees in northern Ca. Create your own visitor map
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