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Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes. He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world." He has traveled all over the US to find ...

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Doug Wewer hangs his snowflake metal photographs in the Myra Powell Gallery on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017 at Union Station in Ogden. Doug Wewer poses for a portrait with his "snow board" on Wednesday, ...

A renowned photographer has captured the highest resolution shots of snowflakes ever using a homemade prototype described as one part microscope and one part camera. Nathan Myhrvold, an American ...

Every snowflake really is different and beautiful. Using old camera parts hacked together with boards and tape, Russian amateur photographer Alexey Kljatov has been capturing amazing shots of ...

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Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov is a master of snowflake photography. After using a homemade rig with inexpensive equipment to take stunning close-ups, Kljatov’s snowflake photos went viral in ...

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