In the spirit of the season — although this is probably the only snow I’ll come in contact with this winter! — here are a few of the fascinating snowflake photomicrographs of Wilson A Bentley.
Bentley, a farmer in rural Vermont, became in 1885 the first person to photograph a snowflake, using a microscope fitted to a bellows camera.
Images from Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley at snowflakebentley.com . (Knitters, have a look at the snowflake zipper pulls in the virtual gift shop — would be lovely on a winter cardigan!)
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