Snowflake photo - Gardener's dream

by Alexey Kljatov

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Snowflake photo - Gardener's dream

Artist

Alexey Kljatov

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Photograph - Macro Photograph

Description

This snowflake certainly is one of my all-time favorites. This is large snow crystal of stellar dendrite type (around 5 millimeters from tip to tip), slightly molten and partially covered with tiny bubbles of rime. It looks unusual, with it's massive tree-like arms and large hexagonal center, divided by six sectors. This crystal remind me tiny planet of Little Prince, which is teared apart by roots of six overgrown baobabs.

I was lucky with lighting of this crystal, and even frozen bubbles of rime (usually i do not like them), looks not too bad on these "baobab branches".

This snowflake available in my NFT collection at OpenSea.io/AlexeyKljatov

This interesting crystal was captured December 2014 on glass surface with LED back light, using additional lens Helios 44M-5. 11 identical RAW photos, taken as fast series, was averaged to boost signal/noise ratio of resulting image.

Also, i processed this snowflake in different colors, and vectorized it (variant on uniform background) to be able to stretch it to any size without loss in quality.

This snowflake published by Wikipedia in english, french and russian articles about snowflake, selected as featured image and Picture of the Year 2018 by Wikimedia.

Snowfalls of December 26, 2014 bring us nice amount of interesting snow crystals. I've already processed two more snowflakes: "High voltage" and "Winter technologies", and have many other amazing specimens to work with!

My collection contains hundreds macro photos of real snowflakes, and constantly grows. Here you'll find ideas for home and office decor, interior design and gifts: canvas, metal, acrylic, wood and framed prints, posters, greeting cards, phone cases for Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy, portable battery chargers, fleece blankets, wall tapestries, coffee mugs, tote bags, t-shirts, vynil stickers, and more: 30+ products available.

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Full resolution downloads available at Patreon.com/AlexeyKljatov

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May 25th, 2015

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