Snowflake photo: Chrome
This is rare snowflake with 12 arms, relatively small specimen: around 3 millimeters from tip to tip.
8 identical RAW photo was taken as quick series, then aligned and averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio of final picture. Glass background with LED back light, additional lens Helios 44M-5, January 2013, Moscow.
Prints available at Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica).
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com.
If you want to see more snowflakes, you can browse through all snowflake pictures.
Here you'll find snowflake photo wallpapers in numerous resolutions and screen proportions, up to Ultra HD 4K.
And here is article about snowflake macro photography.
