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This is another interesting snowflake from January 2016. It seems that this snow crystal have biggest central hexagon among all snowflakes that i've processed so far: around 2 millimeters or even slightly bigger! We can't classify it as hexagonal plate, though, because this snowflake starts to grow tiny arms.

The main problem with this photo was background cleaning. When i captured that crystal, my glass plate was almost completely covered with tiny condensed droplets: they were almost everywhere around crystal! On some angles of transit light from behind of glass, these droplets become visible and very detailed. Because i don't want to see them at final picture, i have no other choice than manually wipe them out, one by one, from whole 12 megapixel picture. It was quite long and boring work, i'm assure you! :)

15 identical RAW photos, taken as fast series, was averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of this picture. Large sheet of glass was used as background, LED back l...

Hello! I'm Alexey Kljatov, a photographer from Moscow. My passion is taking macro photos of real snowflakes. Natural snow crystals, due to their beauty, amazing shapes, structures, uniqueness and endless variety, are one of the most interesting subjects for macro photography. My photos have been published by NASA, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Daily Mail, The Week, Esquire, The Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour and Discovery News, showed on TV by Fox News, NBC News and USA Today, used as illustrations in books and as music disk covers, and published on hundreds websites around the world. Here you'll find ideas for gifts, home and office decor, and many other products. All prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson...