Snowflake photo - Flying castle
by Alexey Kljatov
Title
Snowflake photo - Flying castle
Artist
Alexey Kljatov
Medium
Photograph - Macro Photograph
Description
I think, this snowflake is one of my best photos: it have beautiful shape, glossy surface with relief details, and i was lucky with lighting. This is medium size crystal, lesser than 4 millimeters from tip to tip. I captured it within amazing snowfall, one of the best that i remember.
That day, January 16 2014, was excellent for snowflake photography from early morning: i photographed lots of nice snow crystals, but this can't compare with snowfall, which started around 16:00. Suddenly, i've seen lots of amazing snowflakes, falling at my backdrop. I've tried to catch only best of the best specimens, and as quick as i can, but that was very hard, because almost all crystals around were big, symmetrical and extremely beautiful! The only flaw with these crystals that they was covered with small amount of rime bubbles.
After half of a hour, snow was changed: snowflakes become even bigger, but more "chaotic" and less symmetrical. But i've managed to catch lots of amazing crystals. After removing bad photos, my snowflake archive from that day contains 955 RAW + Jpeg images, which took 12.3 gigabytes of disk space after packing RAWs.
8 identical RAW photos, taken as short series, was averaged for dramatically better signal/noise ratio of this image.
This snowflake available in two color variations. You can see another variant (grey/blue) in galleries "All snowflakes" and "Bright snowflakes".
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January 13th, 2016
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P J Lewis
I am awed by this snowflake series. No jeweler could create something as beautiful as nature has. L & F
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Thank you so much! Yes, snowflakes are amazing objects. Often their "design" looks so incredible, like it comes out from some human (or alien?) mind.