Ethereal Macro Photos of Snowflakes in the Moments Before They Disappear
- Michael Zhang · Dec 07, 2012
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin is a master of winter macro photography. His photo collection is chock full of gorgeous super-close-up photographs of insects, flowers, snow, and frost. Among his most impressive shots are photographs of individual snowflakes that have fallen upon the ground and are in the process of melting away. The shots are so detailed and so perfectly framed that you might suspect them of being computer-generated fabrications.
They’re not though. The images were all captured using a Nikon D80 or Nikon D90 DSLR and a 60mm or 90mm macro lens.
You can enjoy many more of Osokin’s impressive photographs (16 pages worth, at the moment) over on his LensArt.ru website.
Andrew Osokin Photography [LensArt via The Curious Brain via Colossal]
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Reblogged this on Wyndy Dee and commented:
Wow! Those are so beautiful!!!
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Beautiful. I showed them to my daughters. They said they liked the first one best.
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They dont look real! When we had snow this year it was the first time I had ever seen individual flakes actually looking like the ones photographed. I had (somehow for 27 years) figured they were created by disney or something (yes true story) but were really just balls of white stuff. Funny what you see when you open your eyes and actually look instead of just seeing. It felt truly magical. I tried -and failed- for a good few hours trying to get a decent shot with my macro lens before giving up and storing them in memory instead. Absolutely beautiful xB
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