Title: Crystallization
First of all, I am not amused with Comcast having a total "blackout" outage for the last 30 hours or so. No cable, no phone, and most importantly, no Internet! So, I've had this shot ready to go for a day and a half, so without further ado, its Crystallization! (My "Weekly Hindsight" post and photo will be tomorrow)
I actually started planning for this shot last Tuesday, due to the fact on how long it takes to make sugar crystals. Making the crystals isn't too difficult, you need about 1 cup hot water and 3-4 cups of sugar. Mix both until you have a solution that is super-saturated with sugar and pour into a shallow dish. As it evaporates, sugar crystals will form. Keep breaking the top "shell" that forms so the water vapors can escape and you will get a nice colony of crystals on the bottom of the dish. I would recommend using a food coloring agent when mixing the hot water and sugar because otherwise you get white/opaque crystals that are hard to photograph (I had to shoot in RAW format to be able to correct some lighting issues). Salt crystals (which can be made the same way) have similar issues.
Now, you can do a lot of things with sugar crystal when you are done with them, including: Making rock candy (wait till they completely dry), when they are still forming you can add a flavor to get something like "coffee sugar", or just grind it back up into sugar for your cereal!
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