Because it’s Friday: The Wonder of Snowflakes

We’ve had some interesting weather in the UK recently including some early snow in places.

From childhood I’ve been fascinated by the intricacies of snow flakes; when I recently came across this set of pictures on flickr I was delighted. They’re all taken with the most basic of photographic equipment too, more information on how these pictures were taken can be found here:

The core

Starlight

The beauty of imperfection

Snow flower

Snowflake n.1937057371046175 in 55° 45′ 0″ N, 37° 37′ 0″ E at 2013.03.25 09.42:49

Almost triangle

Snowflake (focus stacked version)

Capped Column

Slight asymmetry

 


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