Snowflake photo: Hex appeal (1200 x 900)

Prints available at artist website.

This winter in Moscow still too warm for good snowflake photos, and i continue to dig archives. This is simple hexagonal plate crystal, around 1.5 millimeters from tip to tip. I like it's transparency, and light looks nice, too, though it's just diffused light of grey cloudy skies - no any tricks was needed.

11 identical RAW photos, taken as quick series, was aligned and averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this picture. Background: dark woolen fabric, external optics Helios 44M-5 used as additional magnifier, march 2013, Moscow.

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.

This book written by my friend from Canada, professional photographer Don Komarechka (Website, Google+, Facebook, Flickr). This excellent 9x9" size hardcover book (containing 304 pages), along with fantastic snowflake photography, will detail the science, photography techniques and even delve into why we find snowflakes beautiful.

"The book contains all of my snowflake images, and will detail every photographic and editing technique used in their creation � and I encourage you to try it for yourself! The book also contains all of the science and physics of snowflakes that I can share without personally having a degree in molecular dynamics. I�ll keep the explanations easy to understand and graphic, but the science is fascinating and there are still many unanswered questions." -- Don Komarechka.

Don's snowflake photography truly amazing, much better than my own efforts. He kindly spent a whole page describing my snowflake photography approach.

The book can be ordered at Don's website - skycrystals.ca:

Book cover



Don checked quality of print process at all stages:



Two examples of Don's snowflake photography:

(photographs in this post and the book cover (c) Don Komarechka, posted with his permission)

Here is another amazing work by Don Komarechka: ultra high resolution poster:

Also, don't miss excellent snowflake book by Kenneth Libbrecht and Rachel Wing - The Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry:

 >> snowflakes - printable versions, part I

Trying to do something with low resolution of snowflake shots. I enlarged pictures 2x using SmartEdge demo, free resampling program. It works very slow, but produces output with good looking lines and edges and preserves textures clarity. This demo version also have input image restrictions (resolution should not be bigger than 512 x 512 pixels), so i processed whole pictures part by part and then reassembled.

Then i applied one of these nice freeware canvas textures in "soft light" blending mode with small opacity. This texture masked noise and resampling artifacts, making picture more appealing (i hope) at 1:1 scale view.

2500 x 1876



2118 x 1588



1600 x 1200

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.

Small snowflake, around 2 millimeters in diameter (companion crystal proportionally smaller). 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, december 2012, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 1200 x 900 pixels.

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.

New beautiful design of page chaoticmind75.tumblr.com is made entirely by Lucy Hartman.

Thank you very much, Lucy!

Group of small snowflakes, 1-2 millimeters. 8 shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow. Better viewed in original resolution: 2256 x 1692 pixels.

If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.