Snowflake photo: Silver foil (1600 x 1200)

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This is another snowflake from wonderful snowfall of January 16, 2014. This medium size crystal, as well as many others from that day, have interesting frozen bubbles of rime on it's surface. Overall amount of these bubbles is low, but almost every bubble have something like "impact crater" around it (like ring waves in the pond from thrown stone).

This snowflake was captured on large sheet of glass with LED back lighting, using Canon Powershot A650is with additional lens Helios 44, reversely mounted in front of camera optics, for better magnification. 8 identical RAW photos, captured as quick series, was averaged for better SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) of this image.

This snowflake also available as full HD wallpaper:

Here is another snowflake from same wonderful snowfall of 16th january, Cold metal:

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And here is article about snowflake macro photography.

Snowflake photo: Winter is coming (2048 x 1536)

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This is another fernlike dendrite snow crystal from previous winter. This snowflake was not too large for it's type, around 5 millimeters from tip to tip. The only challenge with this photo was painting complex mask, which separates snowflake from background (painting these masks is the part of my usual snowflake workflow: they used to process crystal and surrounding background with different methods, and these masks need to be very precise).

This snowflake was captured January 2014 in Moscow, on large sheet of glass with LED back light, using Canon Powershot A650is and additional lens Helios 44 (mounted in front of camera's built-in optics for way better magnification than standard macro mode). 8 identical RAW source photos was taken as quick series, and averaged for better signal/noise ratio of final image.

I think, this is most traditional-looking snowflake that i've processed so far (or, maybe, this is another snowflake - Asymmetriad):

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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.

2696 x 3594

I started this picture May 2013, but, when it was half-done, moved it to archive for long time. Recently decided to finish it, finally. About 80 source shots with different lighting was used.

I wrote small post about light painting technique: english / russian.

Alternate version:

3000 x 4000

5410 x 5410

Another collage from two previous collages:

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Desktop wallpaper version in wallpapers section:

Snowflake photo: Alcor (1600 x 1200)

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This is small snowflake: lesser than 2 millimeters from tip to tip. Despite small size and simple shape, this is beautiful and interesting crystal: it's inner part with curvy lines remind flower, but outer rim with six broad hexagons looks very different.

7 identical RAW photos, taken as fast series, was aligned and averaged to boost signal/noise ratio of final picture. Background: dark gray woolen fabric, diffused light of cloudy sky, Canon Powershot A650is with additional optics Helios 44M-5 (mounted reversely in front of built-in lens as additional magnifier). March 2013, Moscow, Russia.

Here you'll find another interesting specimen, which i've captured at same day - Vega, much bigger snow crystal with surprisingly simple shape and structure:

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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.

3148 x 1771

Once again i used this fantastic set of free canvas textures.

Snowflake collage: Bright crystals 2012-2014 (11000 x 11000). License: CC BY-NC.

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This is very high resolution (121 Megapixels) square collage with 21 real snowflake macro photos, photographed at glass surface with LED back lighting. All snow crystals you see here was not re-scaled, so their difference in size is real.

You can see here wide range of snow crystal shapes and sizes: from small and simple hexagonal plates to exotic snowflakes with 12 arms, and very large and complex fernlike dendrite snowflake (around 7 millimeters from tip to tip), which you see in the center.

If you are curious about these snowflakes, you can see them in full size and different color variants: From scratch, Silver plume, Iron crown, Morning star, Asymmetriad, Relief, Beneath a steel sky, Massive gold, Cloud wheel, Silverware, Wheel of time, Snow flower, Oak leaves, Flying castle, High tech of nature, Ornate pattern, Twelve months, Less is more, Cryogenia, Cold metal and Chrome. Some of these crystals also available as Ultra HD wallpapers.

Here is four single snowflakes in square frames on pastel background, based on this collage:

Also, i've prepared similar collage, only with dark snowflake photos, taken on black woolen fabric in natural light:

Ultra HD 4k desktop wallpaper with these collages available on page wallpapers:

And here is two sililar collages, created in 2013 - bright crystals and dark crystals:

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