Wilson A. Bentley: Pioneering Photographer of Snowflakes

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https://snowflakebentley.com/

This story ran in today's Boston.com:
This Vermont man invented snowflake photography
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley is the reason we know how beautiful snowflakes are.

From the Smithsonian:
https://siarchives.si.edu/history/f...on-bentley-pioneering-photographer-snowflakes

For over forty years, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley (1865–1931) photographed thousands of individual snowflakes and perfected the innovative photomicrographic techniques. His photographs and publications provide valuable scientific records of snow crystals and their many types. Five hundred of his snowflake photos now reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, offered by Bentley in 1903 to protect against "all possibility of loss and destruction, through fire or accident."

Video: [video]http://wapo.st/2jvEKAa[/video]



Wilson Bentley took thousands of photographs of snowflakes with his machine. – Jericho Historical Society