'Michael Photographs a Snowflake' shares the beauty and science of snowflakes. Michael Peres has photographed snowflakes through a microscope for over four decades. He is obsessed with photographing ...

A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley ...

No two snowflakes are alike. You probably learned that at an early age. But you might not know the man who discovered it. The lesson can be traced back to Wilson Bentley, a farmer from Jericho, ...

The first person to photograph a single snowflake captured these images. Wilson A. Bentley used a microscope with his camera—plus years of trial and error—to get a photo of an individual snowflake in ...