Below Zero

by Donna Kennedy

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Title

Below Zero

Artist

Donna Kennedy

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy..Photographed in Truckee, California
Closer view of a similar image in my gallery showing the beauty of hoarfrost...

Lots of Pogonip was in the air on this very cold winter December morning with temps below zero near Truckee, California. The Sun had burned most of it off by the time I took this photo, but I have to say it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen--sparkling diamonds in the air!
The word was coined by Native Americans to describe the frozen fogs of fine ice needles that occur in the mountain valleys of the western United States in December. The Shoshone Native Americans called it "frozen death" because it took so many lives from upper respiratory infections. Pogonip only forms under specific conditions, the humidity has to be near 100% as the air temperature drops to way below freezing, allowing ice crystals to form in the air. The ice crystals will then settle onto surfaces.

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