Snowflake photo: Iron crown (1800 x 1350)

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This is medium size snowflake, around 4 millimeters in diameter. It have short arms with complex pattern, and almost empty inner area with simple central hexagon. It was captured on large sheet of glass with LED back light, using Canon Powershot A650is and additional lens Helios 44, reversely mounted in front of camera's built-in optics. 8 identical RAW photos, taken as fast series, was averaged for better SNR (signal/noise ratio) of this picture.

Here is inverted variant of this snowflake:

Snowflake photo: Spark (1800 x 1350)

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Here is first snowflake, that i've processed from amazing snowfall of 16th january 2014 - Massive gold:

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Snowflake photo: Vega (2539 x 1904)

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This snowflake was captured in March 25, 2013, along with many other excellent crystals - and without any traces of melting! Such good for snowflake photography, cold weather is not typical for late March in Moscow.

This snow crystal, though looks like "traditional" snowflake, is quite unusual: it is big (around 6 millimeters from tip to tip), but have very simple shape for such large size. And if you look closely at two upper arms, you can notice that they are slightly differs from four others; examining the center of this crystal in full resolution tell us that this crystal is typical example of split plate snowflake. You can find great description of this type in Kenneth Libbrecht's snowflake classification.

For this picture, i've captured 8 identical RAW photos in short series, and averaged them to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (grey cloudy sky), external optics Helios 44M-5.

Here is another example of split plate snowflake, which i captured on glass surface with LED back light: Crystal of chaos and order:

Here is variant with blur background:

Snowflake photo: Vega II (1600 x 1600)

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I used this variant as square tile in collage Under the grey sky with three other snowflakes (Rigel, Leaves of ice and Alioth):

Also, this snowflake available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

And here is another large crystal that i've photographed same day - The beauty of imperfection - with one reduced arm, but gorgeous pattern in the center:

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Short video fragment, ~3 minutes: Direct link on USAtoday.com

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Snowflake photo: Wheel of time. Full size: 1904 x 1428 pixels

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This is quite rare specimen: snowflake with twelve arms. These crystals can be spot easily even with naked eye, thanks to their unusual shape and relatively large size. I always look for these snowflakes, as well as triangular and hexagonal plate crystals - these types is my certain favorites.

This snow crystal is medium size: around 4 millimeters from tip to tip, and have almost perfectly symmetrical shape, with only small differences, mostly noticeable at tips of its branches. It was captured in january 2014, on large sheet of glass with LED back lighting, using additional lens Helios 44M-5 as magnifier. 8 identical RAW photos was averaged to raise signal/noise ratio of this picture.

I borrowed this title from great fantasy book series by Robert Jordan.

Here is variant in alternate colors:

Snowflake photo: Wheel of time II. Full size: 1904 x 1428 pixels

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And here is another 12-side crystal from this winter: Twelve months. Also, here you'll find very big snowflake with twelve arms, captured on dark woolen fabric, from winter 2015-2016.

I've used this photo to create square picture in a frame on pastel background, along with three other snowflakes:

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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.