Snowflakes Photos By Nathan Myhrvold

Only one out of every thousand snowflakes is perfect enough to photograph. It's hard to predict what you will discover. 

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Why Scientists Find Snowflakes Cool

In the late 1880s, a Vermont farmer began photographing individual, microscopic snowflakes. His name was Wilson Bentley, though he was later nicknamed 'Snowflake'. Over the course of his life, he took over 5000 pictures. 500 of those intricate images are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Wilson Bentley's pictures are data. They give mineralogists and meteorologists important information about the way ice forms in the sky.

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Ice Queen

Photographs are a peek into how beautiful our surroundings are if you look at them up close. One of the things about snowflakes is they are utterly beautiful, but on the other hand they are utterly common. It's a beautiful thing. Take a look.

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Spectacular Beauty Of Snowflakes

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