Having photographed snowflakes for nearly a decade as a large component to my career as a photographer, Ive had the joy of encountering mysteries in the snow and the enthusiasm to sort out the physics behind it. No mystery captivated me more than the first time I saw a ring of color in the center of a snowflake.
All of my snowflake photographs are created using reflected light, which is different than most historical photographers who used transmitted light (light passing... more