Snowflake photo - Majestic crystal Art Print

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Very large snowflake, approximately 8 millimeters from tip to tip.

This is real snow crystal of fernlike dendrite type. These snowflakes can be seen often, and usually they are bigger than snowflakes of other types. I have seen such crystals which are bigger than 1 centimeter in size! These snowflakes can be easily seen by naked eye in all their details, especially if you'll catch them on contrast dark backdrop like black mitten. These snowflakes remind stellar dendrite type, but have more complex and "random", or "chaotic", structure: they have more "side branches" and "leaves", and they grows with not too strict symmetry.

Also, these crystals are fragile: their branches are big and heavy, but central hexagon, when all six arms are connected to each other, is quite small, compared to other snow crystal types. Often these snowflakes can be seen with lost arms, and it seems that they can broke in air, before they fall, when they grow big enough, or collide with neighbor cr...

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...