snowflakes photographed by Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley. Each snowflake shows hexagonal, six-sided symmetry

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Snowflakes photographed by Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley. He is the first known photographer of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated. His photographs date from about 1902.

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Size: 6230px × 5446px
Photo credit: © Scott Camazine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: crystal, hexagon, photograph, snowflake, symmetry