I am not even going to wonder how this is done, just bask in the beauty of it all. If you are one of our regular readers then you will know that we like timelapses at Kuriositas. However, this one is different – very different. Vyacheslav Ivanov has captured the formation of snow crystals.
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages as far away as East Africa and Middle East. These expeditions, known in Chinese history as the treasure voyages, consisted of hundreds of ships of enormous dimensions carrying a crew as large as 28,000 and great amounts of treasures. The purpose of the voyages were to project Chinese power and wealth to the outside world, as well as to establish imperial control over the maritime trade.
