All snow crystals within this sub-blog photographed in Utah by blog host, utilizing micro-equipment fashioned by the photographer. Snow crystals are approximately 1/1o,oooth of an inch thick. Backlighting for daylight photos created by parabolic mirrors. Nighttime photos use a form of backscattering utilizing electronic flash. - ed.

"X-Ray Crystal" - Five points to eternity. A starfish can grow a limb back, but never the poor snow crystal.

Crystal debris reminiscent of a gaseous nebula: where micro-world and macro-world meet.

"Snow Crystals Dancing at Night" - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Every snow crystal has 6 limbs, nature's perfection needs no fix.

"The snowflakes from Christmas past, present and future" - Herein we see 3 phases of a snow crystal: totally melted (left), fully formed (center) and transitional (right). This icy triad of apparitional forms moves us through glacial time.