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Pixels and
FineArtAmerica),
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Maybe this is
"8 March snowflake" or
"Valentine's day snowflake", but actually it was captured in January 2015. This tiny
hexagonal plate crystal, lesser than 1 millimeter in size, shows us unusual pattern of six elements with
heart shape, pointing at corners of hexagon. This is first case when i saw something resembling heart inside of snow crystal.
Unfortunately, i photographed this crystal not as good as it deserves: from 8 serial shots, which i've took for
averaging process, 5 photos have poor lighting, and i had only three good source shots to work with. So, i've tried my best to remove noise as possible while preserving all significant snowflake details.
I processed this crystal in warm pink colors for birthday of my girl
Lucy:
Later, i've enchanced this snowflake photo for
slightly better contrast and colors.
And this is alternate color version:
Snowflake photo: Frozen hearts, alternate colors (1024 x 768) Prints available at
Artist website (mirrors at
Pixels and
FineArtAmerica).
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Shutterstock.com.
Also, one year after i was lucky to take photo of another snow crystal with six tiny hearts, connected to corners of central hexagon. This snowflake much bigger than first specimen:
These snow crystals are available as
Ultra HD wallpaper:
If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through
all snowflake pictures.
And here is article about
snowflake macro photography.