Cryogenia

Snowflake photo: Cryogenia (1200 x 900)

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I think, this is best snowflake of hexagonal plate type that i've captured this winter. I enjoy this crystal's unusual structure: with "high tech" relief of central hexagon and outer pattern with six marks, which reminds ancient runes. This mix of "ancient and futuristic" in single snowflake looks really cool! And i was lucky with lighting of this pretty crystal, so all inner details are clearly visible.

However, this crystal was hard for processing, because i've got only 4 identical RAW photos for averaging (my SD card was almost full, when i saw this nice snowflake on camera screen), and in close proximity to crystal were some piles of ice debris: this complicates cleaning of background. But this specimen definitely worth all the trouble.

This snow crystal was around 1,5 millimeters in diameter: quite large size for it's type. It was captured on large sheet of glass with multi-color LED back light, using Canon Powershot A650is and additional lens Helios 44M-5, in january 2014.

This is alternate color version:

Snowflake photo: Cryogenia, alternate colors (1200 x 900)

Prints available at Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica), RedBubble.com.
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Also, i've created square picture in a frame with this snowflake on pastel background, along with three other crystals:

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.