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Laurent Memmi - "Asylum Benefits EP"

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I'm happy to announce that my snowflake photo Almost triangle was chosen as cover for music disk "Asylum Benefits EP" by Laurent Memmi, a French drone / ambient music producer:Asylum Benefits EP by Laurent MemmiAnd here is two albums in different genres, which also features my snowflake...

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Christmas card pack (6 cards)

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a href="https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5686/23029895494_5f0be1d7c7_h.jpg" title="Christmas card #6 from pack of 6 cards, with real snowflake photo by Alexey Kljatov" data-lightbox="Christmas_card_pack_set" data-title="Christmas card #6. Prints available: Artist website, RedBubble.com">Snowflake...

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Don Komarechka. "The Snowflake" - ultra high resolution snowflake poster

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I hardly imagine how much time and effort it takes to create this ultra high resolution poster by Don Komarechka!Canadian professional photographer Don Komarechka (Website, Google+, Facebook, Flickr) individually captured and processed all those 400+ snow crystals using focus stacking...

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Pastel colored crystals

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Just trying various post-processing techniques of snowflake macro photos. Here is four snowflakes (Massive silver, Beneath a steel sky, Cryogenia and Wheel of time) in square frames on light pastel background:a href="https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/627/22882770053_c76ad41682_h.jpg"...

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Majestic crystal

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a href="https://c3.staticflickr.com/1/665/22828647690_406141fdc9_h.jpg" title="Snowflake macro photo: Majestic crystal, fernlike dendrite snow crystal by Alexey Kljatov" data-lightbox="Majestic_crystal_snowflake" data-title="Majestic crystal. Prints available: Artist website, RedBubble.com">Snowflake...

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Snowflake wallpaper: Cloud number nine

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Winter is coming, as House Stark motto says, and i've created ultra HD wallpaper from picture of very big fernlike dendrite snowflake "Cloud number nine":This monstrous crystal available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800x600 pixels (SVGA) to 5120x2880...

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Article about snowflake macro photography reached 1 million views

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This milestone means a lot for me. All blog pages and posts (including that article) reached only 1.5 million views by now. Currently, i work on third major update of snowflake article (russian update already done, translation to English in progress). In a few days, article will...

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Kenneth Libbrecht and Rachel Wing. "Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry"

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From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals blossom into tiny ice stars. Because it weighs next to nothing, a snow crystal may take hours...

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Under the grey sky

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a href="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5653/21259705153_f196b698c3_h.jpg" title="Under the grey sky: snowflake photo collage by Alexey Kljatov" data-lightbox="Under_grey_sky_collage" data-title="Under the grey sky. Prints available: Artist website, RedBubble.com">Snowflake collage:...

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Snowflake brushes for Adobe Photoshop

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This is a set of 4 brushes, created from real snowflake photos:Snowflake_brushes1.zipJust load unpacked file snowflake_brushes1.abr from brush panel, and they will append to list of current brushes. In case if this file is not compatible with some Photoshop versions, it can be easily...

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New snowflake wallpaper: the core

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Beautiful transparent snowflake The core now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 x 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 x 2160 (Ultra HD 4K...

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Reworked snowflake wallpaper: Alioth

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Unusual snowflake Alioth now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:This is reworked version of wallpaper i've already made. Now it have slightly better colors, contrast and vignetting, and no chromatic aberrations.Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions...

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Butterfly wing scales

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1524 * 1016I borrowed this specimen from school's biology class. This is tropical butterfly Caligo oileus (Brown Owl butterfly, or Oileus Giant Owl). This fragment is the part of white rim around big "eye" at rear side of the wings.Gear: my usual "snowflake" macro setup (i described...

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Moscow steampunk (sketch)

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a href="https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/605/20976351340_9d66aa6dae_h.jpg" title="Moscow steampunk (sketch) by Alexey Kljatov" data-lightbox="Moscow_steampunk_sketch" data-title="Moscow steampunk (sketch). Prints available: Artist website, RedBubble.com">Sketch: Moscow steampunk (4000...

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New snowflake wallpaper: starlight

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Stellar dendrite crystal Starlight now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:This is one of my favorite snowflake photos. I processed this crystal in 2013, but then i made a mistake and was not saved uncropped version. This prevents me to make wallpaper version, until i re-processed that...

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New snowflake wallpaper: leaves of ice

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Big and beautiful fernlike dendrite snowflake Leaves of ice now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 x 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 x 2160 (Ultra HD 4K...

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Big Dipper in the big city

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3024 * 2016This is fragment of old photo, slightly postprocessed. I created a mask for stars (using levels on monochrome copy of picture) and added some glow to stars with it.Stars photography in cities like Moscow, with strong light pollution, really painful task. For this picture,...

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Vectorized snowflakes

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I came across wonderful online vectorizing service: vectormagic.com and very impressed by results it creates. These vector images reminds me great old video game Another World. Of course, automatic raster-to-vector transformation simplifies snowflake structure and reduces number...

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