New snowflake wallpaper: starlight

Stellar dendrite crystal Starlight now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

This is one of my favorite snowflake photos. I processed this crystal in 2013, but then i made a mistake and was not saved uncropped version. This prevents me to make wallpaper version, until i re-processed that photo.

Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800x600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840x2160 (Ultra HD 4K).

New snowflake wallpaper: leaves of ice

Big and beautiful fernlike dendrite snowflake Leaves of ice now available as Ultra HD wallpaper:

Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 x 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 x 2160 (Ultra HD 4K).

Big Dipper in the big city

3024 * 2016

This is fragment of old photo, slightly postprocessed. I created a mask for stars (using levels on monochrome copy of picture) and added some glow to stars with it.

Stars photography in cities like Moscow, with strong light pollution, really painful task. For this picture, i aligned and averaged stack of 10 long exposure shots (15 seconds each), taken on very edge of the city at clean and starry night.

Vectorized snowflakes

I came across wonderful online vectorizing service: vectormagic.com and very impressed by results it creates. These vector images reminds me great old video game Another World. Of course, automatic raster-to-vector transformation simplifies snowflake structure and reduces number of colors, but still, it looks really nice, at my taste.

These snowflake vector files (EPS and SVG formats) and pre-rendered PNGs with anti-aliased edges are free for non-commercial use (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license):

EPS file, SVG file, Pre-rendered PNG (8192 x 8192)



EPS file, SVG file, Pre-rendered PNG (8192 x 8192)

Here you'll find simplified vector versions of these two crystals, also in EPS / SVG formats and with high resolution rasterized PNGs.

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.