Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) was known as the Snowflake Man. A self educated Vermont farmer, Bentley took the first photographic images capturing the unique beauty of individual snowflakes, using a photomicrography technique involving a microscope and a bellows camera. He made thousands of prints, with no two alike. As he wrote in 1925:
Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost.
Beautiful, no?
(see more here and here) and thank you to the psychic SuperForesters Sophie and Mhairi for the tip.
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