Category Archives: Macro Photography
Three-in-one
2048 * 1536 This is cluster of three snowflakes, captured in January. Big crystal is medium size stellar dendrite, around 4 millimeters from tip to tip. Clusters of snow crystals sometimes looks really nice, but often they form 3-dimensional structure, … Continue reading
Serenity
1600 * 1200 This is another snowflake from this January. It seems that this crystal have biggest central hexagon among all snowflakes that i processed so far: around 2 millimeters or slightly bigger. We can’t classify it as hexagonal plate, … Continue reading
Valentine’s day snowflake
I already posted this interesting tiny crystal almost a year ago, and this is re-processed version with slightly better contrast and colors: 1200 * 900 Prints available at Pixels.com / FineArtAmerica.com, RedBubble.com. This variant have bigger cropping, and may be … Continue reading
Eye of the night
This is re-processing of old moon photo: brighter, with slightly better resolution and lower noise. In fact, this is not real photo, but photo manipulation: 1681 * 1261 Moon itself was captured with this strange construction as 48 identical RAW … Continue reading
Fernlike dendrites on black
This is experiment of postprocessing previously released snowflake photos (bright variant of Silverware / Neon and Majestic crystal) with completely different look. I used blending mode “different” to create bright versions from bright and dark snowflake contours and combined them … Continue reading
Anatomy of a snowflake (video)
Another interesting video by NBC News describes various types of snowflakes and features some of my photos as illustrations for different types: Direct link to video on NBC News site The keys to december
How do snowflakes form? (video)
In this nice video by American Chemical Society we can see graphics presentation of snowflake forming process: Direct link to YouTube You can see some of my photos here, too, along with photos by other authors. I’m very proud if … Continue reading
Winter fortress
1200 * 900 Prints available at Pixels.com / FineArtAmerica.com, RedBubble.com. This is my first processed snowflake from this winter: small sectored plate crystal, slightly bigger than 1 millimeter. I already captured lots of new crystals, just need some time for … Continue reading
GIF animation: melting snowflake sequences
I’ve already posted two GIF animations (with snowflake melting and reversed sublimation, which looks like “grow”), and here is 3 more animations of snowflakes, melting on glass. This January starts really good for snowflake photography in Moscow: it is cold … Continue reading
Laurent Memmi – “Asylum Benefits EP”
I’m happy to announce that my snowflake photo was chosen as cover for music disk “Asylum Benefits EP” by Laurent Memmi, a French drone / ambient music producer. This genre of ambient music is one of my favorites, and i … Continue reading
Christmas card pack (6 cards)
2370 * 1580 I’m sorry for terrible text: i’ve hand written it on paper and scanned, and my hand-writing is even worse than collage making. Snow decorations created with snowflake brushes for Adobe Photoshop, available here. Hope that i’ll create … Continue reading
Don Komarechka. “The Snowflake” – ultra high resolution snowflake poster
I hardly imagine how much time and effort it takes to create this ultra high resolution poster by Don Komarechka! Canadian professional photographer Don Komarechka (Website, Google+, Facebook, Flickr) individually captured and processed all those 400+ snow crystals using focus … Continue reading