Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

but these are freshly fallen snowflakes, or snow crystals, resting on wool. They are around 1 millimeter in size and were captured using a simple, cheap photography technique. When the snow starts ...

A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes.

We often hear that no two snowflakes are alike. That was showcased by a Wolcott woman who put her micro-photography skills to use this past weekend. Jennifer Rossi caught some amazing images of ...

The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of thousands of snowflakes and categorized them into 35 categories. Ukichiro Nakaya ...