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Macro Photography

New snowflake wallpaper: starlight

New addition in wallpapers section: This is one of my favourite snowflake photos. I processed this crystal in 2013, but then i made a mistake and was not saved uncropped version. This prevents me to make wallpaper version, until i … Continue reading

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Moscow steampunk (sketch)

4000 * 3000 I’ve tried nice program PhotoSketcher and really like it! It is free, have lots of painting modes and settings, and produces very interesting results. I definitely will use it more. From this old photo PhotoSketcher created 5 … Continue reading

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Butterfly wing scales

1524 * 1016 I borrowed this specimen from school’s biology class. This is tropical butterfly Caligo oileus (Brown Owl butterfly, or Oileus Giant Owl). This fragment is the part of white rim around big “eye” at rear side of the … Continue reading

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Reworked snowflake wallpaper: Alioth

New addition in wallpapers section: This is reworked version of wallpaper i’ve already made. Now it have slightly better colors, contrast and vignetting, and no chromatic aberrations. Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 * … Continue reading

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New snowflake wallpaper: the core

New addition in wallpapers section: Available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800 * 600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840 * 2160 (ultra HD 4k). The keys to december

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Snowflake brushes for Adobe Photoshop

This is a set of 4 brushes, created from real snowflake photos: Snowflake_brushes1.zip Just load unpacked file snowflake_brushes1.abr from brush panel, and they will append to list of current brushes. In case if this file is not compatible with some … Continue reading

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Under the grey sky

3661 * 3661 Yet another snowflake collage. When processing each snowflake, i draw by hand a mask, which separates crystal from background (this is nessessary to process object and background with different sharpening and noise removing settings). Now these masks … Continue reading

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Kenneth Libbrecht and Rachel Wing. “Snowflake: Winter’s Frozen Artistry”

From ten thousand feet above the Earth, a snowflake begins its fall. Its journey starts when ice forms around a nucleus of dust and is blown by the winds through clouds where the crystals blossom into tiny ice stars. Because … Continue reading

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Article about snowflake macro photography reached 1 million views

This milestone means a lot for me. All blog pages and posts (including that article) reached only 1.5 million views by now. Currently, i work on third major update of snowflake article (russian update already done, translation to English in … Continue reading

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And onto this Earth was born a baby …….

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