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This is my first processed snowflake from this winter: small
sectored plate crystal, slightly bigger than 1 millimeter. I already captured lots of new snow crystals, just need some time for processing!
Sectored plate snowflakes really amazing type: they have simple shape, but rich surface, full of relief details. I like that "rows", which divide plate to six sectors, and central pattern, resembling dark flower.
This crystal is good illustration, why i love small snowflakes so much: often they look more unusual than bigger crystals, and have their own beauty in simplicity.
14 identical RAW photos, taken as quick series, was
averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this picture. Snowflake captured on glass surface with LED back light, with additional lens Helios 44M-5, January 2016, in Moscow, Russia.
Second version with slightly different colors:
Snowflake photo: Winter fortress alternate (1200 x 900) Snowfalls of January 3, 2016 brings us some very interesting and unusual crystals. My total catch of that day in snowflake archive tooks more than 7 gigabytes of RAW + Jpeg source photos. I've already processed two other snowflakes:
Serenity and
Sunflower, and have many other specimens to work!
If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through
all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find
snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about
snowflake macro photography.