Candle wick "mushrooming"

teamracephotosteamracephotos Registered Users Posts: 492 Major grins
edited April 13, 2013 in Holy Macro
Hi it has been a very long time sense I have posted an pictures. Got a kit built back up hopefully soon I will have something new to post. For now I have a candle flames/wicks from back in 2010. After taking it I learned the technical term for it is "Mushrooming". If you don't trim the wick the wax will build up at the top. Then the flame will shape the wax. I am not a person to burn candles has anyone seen anything like this?


This one looks like a Swan (to me)
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
— Lord Byron

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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2013
    Good shot- interesting phenomenon.
    Brian V.
    Brian V.
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  • teamracephotosteamracephotos Registered Users Posts: 492 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2013
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    Good shot- interesting phenomenon.
    Brian V.

    Thanks, I guess you could say interesting. I have have a few others from the same candle one looks like a flower. I had never seen anything like it. Kind of got me excited until some told me about mushrooming. At first I thought they where pulling my leg, then I went and spoke with a candle maker and they told me they have seen it before. You got to trim the wick a 1/4 inch. Kind of funny a 45 year old person never heard of a candle mushrooming ;O)
    “I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
    — Lord Byron
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