Above: A hexagonal (six-sided) snow crystal, classified as a stellar dendrite. This crystal was photographed with an Olympus TG-6 camera after it landed on the sleeve of the authors fleece jacket.

As the season’s first flurries descended on Chicago on December 4, the Carl Hammer Gallery fittingly unveiled Snow Crystals: Vintage Photomicrographs, its collection of Wilson A. Bentley’s early ...

Wilson Alwyn Bentley was an American photographer and meteorologist. He was the first person who was able to capture detailed photos of snowflakes. Because of his achievement, he was called "Snowflake ...

The first scientifically accurate models of a snowflake are now on display at Nova Scotia's Museum of Natural History. It's all thanks to some digging by Curator of Geology Tim Fedak. Buried away in ...

From today 26 of Bentley's images are for sale at the four-day American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Ten of the images are of snowflakes, which he called snow ...

The old adage that "no two snowflakes are alike" might not hold true, at least for smaller crystals, new research suggests. Snowflakes are created when snow crystals stick together. Some contain ...

I used : teardrop crystal 4x6mm and spherical crystal 6mm Soft copper wire 22 gauge ( wire diameter 0.6mm ) : 100cm ( 20 inch) 28 gauge ( wire diameter 0.3mm ) : 50cm ( 10 inch) ...

Photographs by the first person to capture the image of a single snowflake with a camera are going up for sale in New York, featuring examples from a life's work of pioneering 19th-century images of ...