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Wednesday 25 February 2015

Saturday 21 February 2015

I'm happy to announce that my snowflake photos was chosen as cover for music album "1975 Triptych" by M-Opus, Irish progressive rock band.

Music album 1975 Triptych by M-Opus, Irish progressive rock band, features snowflake photo by Alexey Kljatov on cover

Digital booklet of music album: 1975 Triptych by M-Opus, Irish prog rock band, features two snowflake macro photos by Alexey Kljatov
Digital booklet available at M-Opus site. Digital artwork (c) M-Opus.com

I have only little listening experience of progressive rock, but i like this album very much! In my opinion, this is beautiful and serious work.


Nice reviews of this disk available at: Prog-sphere.com, EchoesAndDust.com, Dmme.net, Itdjents.com, DangerDog.com.

Album can be ordered at CDbaby.com, ITunes and Amazon.

My big thanks to M-Opus and Jonathan Casey!

And here is two albums in different genres, which also features my snowflake photos on covers - Asylum Benefits EP by Laurent Memmi, French drone / ambient music producer, and Unicum by Draugh, music composer from Chile:

Album Asylum Benefits EP by Laurent Memmi, French drone ambient music producer, featured triangular snowflake photo by Alexey Kljatov on coverAlbum Unicum by Draugh, music composer from Chile, featured snowflake photo by Alexey Kljatov on cover

Thursday 5 February 2015

Close-up snowflake picture: Icy jewel, large star plate snow crystal with six short, broad arms with elegant and complex inner pattern, and large, transparent central hexagon with simple internal details, glittering on dark gray woolen background
Snowflake photo: Icy jewel (2048 x 1536)

Prints available at: Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica), RedBubble.com, Society6.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com, 500px.com.

Interior with snowflake print, hanging on wall: real snow crystal with six short, broad arms and complex inner structure, glittering on dark gray background



This snowflake is relatively big (around 4 millimeters from tip to tip), with simple shape, but complex inner pattern (especially at arms). If you look closely at this crystal, you may notice that it slightly resembles triangular snowflakes: like these snow crystals, it have hexagonal symmetry, but with interleaving shorter / longer sides of central hexagon. In this case, however, triangular structure is hardly noticeable.

Also, you can find small and simple plate crystal at surface of bigger one, and this tiny companion also have triangular structure, with three shorter and three longer sides. This is strange and beautiful couple, in my opinion.

8 identical photos averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (cloudy sky), external optics Helios 44M-5, December 2014, Moscow, Russia.

Here is version on blur background:

Picture of real snowflake: star plate snow crystal with six short, broad arms, complex inner pattern and big, flat and empty central hexagon with simple geometric details. Snowflake glitters on dark cyan blur background
Snowflake photo: Icy jewel, blur version (1600 x 1600)

Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com, 500px.com.

Also, this jewel available as ultra HD wallpaper:

Snowflake photo wallpaper: Icy jewel, resolution up to Ultra HD 4K, standard and widescreen, 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, free download

One year ago i've captured similar snowflake: The core, smaller crystal with almost perfect hexagonal symmetry and simple, though interesting, volume surface:

Snowflake picture: The core - clear transparent snow crystal with short and broad arms, glowing on dark cyan textured background

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