First snowflake photographer, Wilson Bentley, photographing snow crystals, 1925. He developed the equipment and techniques to take photographs of individual snowflakes. Five hundred of his snowflake photos now reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archives [1382 × 1584]

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More about him, https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/wilson-bentley-pioneering-photographer-snowflakes

roarercoaster: That’s pretty sad he died of pneumonia after photographing in a snowstorm.

funkboxing: Wow, handling an individual snowflake with feathers sounds like some kind of impossible kung-fu challenge or something. I can’t imagine the patience and steady hands that took.

thaconman: Dude looks like Daniel Day Lewis in There will be blood.

A great radiolab episode on this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/257203-snowflakes/