Emerald

Snowflake photo: Emerald (1200 x 900)

Prints available at Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica), RedBubble.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com.

Snowflake draft #4

For this update of draft series i've prepared five best snowflakes from my catch of February 13, 2017. That day i captured mostly stellar and fernlike dendrites, large and medium size:

Snowflake photo: Draft_4-1 (2048 x 1536)

The shard

Snowflake photo: The shard (2048 x 1536)

Prints available at Artist website (mirrors at Pixels and FineArtAmerica), RedBubble.com, Society6.com.
Licenses for commercial use - at Shutterstock.com, 500px.com.

NASA: Why All Snowflakes Have Six Sides

In this video, created by NASA, you'll see beautiful CG models of snowflakes, and my snowflake photos - as examples of real snow crystals.

Words can't express how i'm proud of this publication! From my childhood, space and Sci-Fi remains one of my main points of interest, and i always feel deep respect to NASA, main space explorer and researcher.

Direct link on YouTube

On NASA site, you'll find this video, plus two separated CG animations, free to download.

Also, i've created an YouTube channel today. By now, it contains only playlist with several snowflake-related videos, but i planned to add more interesting content in the future.

Here you'll find all snowflake videos in my blog.

How are snowflakes formed? - A Christmas Barrel

Cute video with my snowflake photos, created by A Christmas Barrel. I enjoyed it's music and picture quality - it looks really nice in Full HD:

Direct link on YouTube

Here you'll find all snowflake videos.

Snowflake wallpaper: Two hearts

This Valentine's day wallpaper combined from two real snowflake photos, taken separately - Heart powered star and Frozen hearts. Both snow crystals have unusual and rare patterns of heart-like elements around central hexagons:

Wallpaper available in screen proportions 4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9, resolutions from 800x600 pixels (SVGA) to 3840x2160 (Ultra HD 4K).

Draugh - "Unicum"

My photo of real snowflake Starlight was chosen as cover for music disk "Unicum" by Draugh, composer from Iquique, Chile:

Original snow crystal:

And here is two albums in different genres, which also features my snowflake photos on covers - 1975 Triptych by M-Opus, Irish progressive rock band, and Asylum Benefits EP by Laurent Memmi, French drone / ambient music producer: