Snowflake photo: Rigel (1800 x 1350)

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This is another stellar dendrite snowflake from January 2013. This snow crystal was difficult to work because it quickly melts at edges, while i captured series for averaging. Averaging photos with such serious differences leads to blurry zones (where melting occurs). So, i manually restored outer edges of snowflake using first photo from the series. 6 identical photos was averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this image. Background: dark grey woolen fabric, natural light from cloudy sky, external optics Helios 44M-5, Moscow, Russia.

My processing workflow includes manual drawing precise mask at contour of snowflake (to being able process crystal and background separately), and i used this mask again for variant with blurred background:

Snowflake picture: Rigel, blur variant (1365 x 1365)

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

Also, this snowflake available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

This snow crystal, and Starlight are the most beautiful stellar dendrites from all my catch of January:

I also combined both snow crystals into one picture:

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

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

Snowflake photo: Silver foil (1600 x 1200)

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This is another snowflake from wonderful snowfall of January 16, 2014. This medium size crystal, as well as many others from that day, have interesting frozen bubbles of rime on it's surface. Overall amount of these bubbles is low, but almost every bubble have something like "impact crater" around it (like ring waves in the pond from thrown stone).

This snowflake was captured on large sheet of glass with LED back lighting, using Canon Powershot A650is with additional lens Helios 44, reversely mounted in front of camera optics, for better magnification. 8 identical RAW photos, captured as quick series, was averaged for better SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) of this image.

This snowflake also available as full HD wallpaper:

Here is another snowflake from same wonderful snowfall of 16th january, Cold metal:

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