Simple collage with normal and inverted variants of 2 snowflake photos.

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Snowflake photo: Ice relief (1798 x 1349)

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This is medium size snowflake (around 3 millimeters from tip to tip), with beautiful relief surface. I was lucky with lighting of this crystal, so all surface details are clearly visible. This snowflake have good symmetry, except for tips of the arms, and unusual center: this pattern of rings looks strange when compared to straight lines on the arms. Anyway, this crystal is one of my favorites from all catch of January 2015.

This snowflake was captured on sheet of glass, with LED back lighting, using additional lens Helios 44 as magnifier (you can see article about snowflake macro photography, if you are curious about macro setup and techniques i use). 12 identical RAW photos, captured as quick series, was averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio and reveal subtle details of the crystal.

Different processing of this snowflake - in colder colors and with more free space around crystal:

Snowflake photo: Ice relief II (2400 x 1800)

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And here you'll find third variant - post-processed crystal, transferred to clear black background; and another snowflake, High voltage / Gecko's paw, with same processing:

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Reversed sequence of snowflake sublimation process, assembled from 61 source shots.

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Here you'll find all snowflake GIF animations, that i've assembled from series of still photos.

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Snowflake photo: Flower within a flower (1024 x 768)

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This tiny snowflake was not bigger than 1 millimeter from tip to tip. Despite it's simple shape, typical for such small snow crystal, it have really amazing, dense and complex pattern inside central hexagon and near of outer rim. Inner pattern remind me flower, placed with recursion within another flower; and 12 elements in outer pattern resembles resistors on print circuits. So, this is some sort of "computer-inspired snowflake". :)

9 identical RAW photos was taken as quick series, aligned and averaged for dramatically better signal/noise ratio of this picture. It was captured on large sheet of glass with LED back lighting, using Canon Powershot A650is and additional lens Helios 44M-5, reversely mounted in front of camera's optics, January 2015 in Moscow, Russia.

Here is another small snowflake from this January, which also have unusually complex pattern for it's size - Forget-me-not:

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Snowflake photo: High voltage (1776 x 1332)

This is medium size snowflake, around 3 millimeters from tip to tip. Captured on glass surface with LED back light, with additional lens Helios 44M-5, December 2014, Moscow. 12 identical RAWs photos, taken as quick series, was averaged for better signal-to-noise ratio.

I like big, broad and clean arms of this crystal, resembling duck feet: they attract my attention instantly, when i saw this snowflake on glass. This crystal looks unusual and interesting even for naked eye.

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And this is negative variant, created from inverted picture:

Snowflake photo: Gecko's paw (1600 x 1200)

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Also, here is variant with bright crystal, transferred to clear black background. I'm huge fan of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, pioneer of snowflake photography, and his photos is my constant source of inspiration. He used sharp knife to scrape photographic emulsion from plates outside the crystal, to get beautiful black background. I use small Photoshop brush, instead of knife, to achieve the same effect, and draw by hand precise mask at contour of snow crystal. Creating this mask also require patience and significant amount of time, but can't compare with Wilson Bentley's work with backgrounds.

Snowflake photo: High voltage II (1600 x 1200)

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And here is slightly different snowflake with broad arms: Ice crown, captured on dark woolen fabric:

Also, in this quick processed series you'll find another large snowflake with similar arms:

December 26, 2014, was amazing day for snowflake photography in Moscow: my snowflake archive from that day contains several hundreds of source photos, and took more than 8 gigabytes of disk space. I've already processed two more snowflakes: Winter technologies and Gardener's dream, and have lots of nice specimens for future work!

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