Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

Snow can seem anything but delicate when you consider avalanches, nor’easters, and the fact that we generally stomp through it, shovel it, and drive over it. But on a microscopic level, each ...

"Yellowknife Flurry," a photograph by Nathan Myhrvold, captures the intricate structure of snowflakes. Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC The first chill of a winter storm is enough to ...

All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between ...

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