Alcor

(1600 * 1200)

This is small snowflake, around 2 mm in diameter. 7 serial shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light (clouded sky), external optics Helios 44M-5, march 2013, Moscow.

More snowflakes in album snowflakes and snow crystals.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.

Canvas selfie

(3148 * 1771)

Once again i used this fantastic set of free canvas textures.

Bright crystals 2012-2014

Another collage, similar to previous one, with bright crystals (captured in backlight at glass surface).

This is big picture: 11000 x 11000 pixels, 36mb jpeg file. Some browsers won't open full size because of high memory requirements. In this case it can be downloaded via button at lower right corner of photo at flickr page.

Print available at: 500px.com, pixels.com, deviantart.com.

More snowflakes in album snowflakes and snow crystals.
Also i wrote small article about my shooting technique.

Collage with dark crystals:

Desktop wallpaper with these collages in wallpapers section: