Featured on PDR in the essay The Snowflake Man of Vermont
Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer from a small American town who, by combining a bellows camera with a microscope, managed to photograph the dizzyingly intricate and diverse structures of the snow crystal.
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Photograph of a Snowflake
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Date
1910
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