Starlight

Snowflake photo: Starlight (2048 x 1536)

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This is one of most beautiful stellar dendrite snowflakes i've captured past winter, but it was hard to process, because i got serious problems with aligning shots (wind shifts and rotates this crystal when i've took photo series). This snow crystal is quite large, about 5-6 millimeters from tip to tip. I like this crystal's elegant and ornate "design" and shape, especially high detailed arms: they remind me six sharp swords, pointing inward.

8 identical RAW shots, captured as fast series, was averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of final picture. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (grey cloudy sky), camera Canon Powershot A650is, external optics Helios 44M-5, January 2013, Moscow, Russia.

Another variant with blurred background:

Snowflake photo: Starlight II (2048 x 1536)

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Also, Starlight available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

Starlight was chosen as cover for music disk Unicum by Draugh, composer from Chile:

I also combined this snow crystal with snowflake Rigel into one picture:

Snowflake photo: When winters meets 2 (3400 x 2550)

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And here is another beautiful cluster with two stellar dendrite snowflakes, taken in January 2014, also at dark textured backdrop, and processed in same technique:

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.