Now, nearly two years in the making, Myhrvold has developed what he bills as the “highest-resolution snowflake camera in the world.” Recently, he released a series of images taken using his ...

In the late 1800s, a self-educated Vermont farmer by the name of Wilson Bentley made the first successful image, or “photomicrograph,” of a single snowflake ... and how no two seem to be ...

Bentley was the first to claim that no two snowflakes are alike ... What is clear is that Bentley gave his white-on-white images a black background by scraping the emulsion off the negatives ...