American farmer Wilson Bentley is credited with capturing on camera the first images of individual snowflakes. He made thousands of the jewel-like prints more than a century ago, no two alike, using a microscope and a bellows camera.
After a blizzard, Bentley caught pneumonia and died just weeks after the publication of his book Snow Crystals.
Now, up for rare auction are ten of his pioneering prints.
Snowflake expert Kenneth G Libbrecht said, “He did it so well that hardly anybody bothered to photograph snowflakes for almost 100 years.”
(Continue reading in the BBC)
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