Anatomy of a snowflake (video)

Another interesting video by NBC News describes various types of snowflakes and features some of my photos as illustrations for different types:

Direct link to video on NBC News site

Here you'll find all snowflake videos.

How do snowflakes form? (video)

In this nice video by American Chemical Society we see graphics presentation of snowflake forming process:

Direct link to YouTube

You can see some of my photos, along with works by other authors. I'm very proud if my snowflake images have some value for science!
Here you'll find all snowflake videos.

Winter fortress

Snowflake photo: Winter fortress (1200 x 900)

Prints available at Artist website, RedBubble.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com.

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 is why i love small snowflakes so much: often they look more unusual than bigger crystals, and have their own beauty in simplicity.

Prints available at Artist website, RedBubble.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com.

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.

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.

GIF animation: melting snowflake sequences

I've already posted two GIF animations (with snowflake melting and reversed sublimation, which looks like "grow"), and here is 3 more animations of snowflakes, melting on glass.

This January starts really good for snowflake photography in Moscow: it is cold and snowy almost every day. I've already captured lots of new interesting crystals, and will process them soon!

However, January 14 was a little warm for good shooting: there was snowfalls, and many nice crystals, but my glass plate simply can't cool enough: even after 30 minutes of cooling outside, snowflakes slowly melts on it. So, instead of shooting sequences of identical shots for averaging, i captured sequences of melting stages. For shooting these series fast enough, i've temporary disabled RAW writing, and captured only JPEGs.

Here is three GIF animations: first one assembled from 20 sequental photos (~6 mb), second one - from 29 photos (~7,5 mb), and third - from 32 photos (~8 mb):

It is interesting to see how some snowflake features transforms into air bubbles, and remains inside waterdrop.

Here you'll find all snowflake GIF animations, that i've assembled from series of still photos.

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.