For this update of draft series i’ve prepared five best snowflakes from my catch of February 13, 2017. That day i captured mostly stellar and fernlike dendrites, large and medium size:
This snowflake have relatively simple structure for it’s type, and moderate size: around 4 millimeters from tip to tip. This is quite “standard” crystal, and most interesting detail is how side branches of neighbor arms overlaps with each other: snowflake looks transparent for this point of view, and we clearly see through overlapped parts.
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And this is same snowflake in alternate colors:
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Second snow crystal is smaller (less than 3 millimeters) and looks more glossy:
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Most interesting detail is relief central hexagon of unusual shape, with nice inner pattern. I’ve also prepared version in alternate colors:
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Next crystal is also small, and have dense array of side branches on it’s arms:
Alternate, warmer color version:
Next snowflake is my favorite of this day. It is biggest among all five crystals, have complex and symmetrical structure:
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And finally, quite “standard” stellar dendrite, but i like light on it’s relief surface:
This color version is better, in my opinion:
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My snowflake catch of February 13 was 326 RAW + Jpeg photos, 3.2 Gigabytes total – really lucky day, because last half of winter 2016-17 was not good for snowflake photography in Moscow: it was too warm and with rare snowfalls.
Here is very first pack of draft snowflakes – catch of December 18, 2015:
If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you’ll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.