Iron crown / Spark

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)

Prints available at Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica), RedBubble.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com, Marketplace.500px.com.

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

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.