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It’s been two years since the Department of Awesome Snowflake Photography first discovered the outstanding work of Canadian macro photographer Don Komarechka (previously featured here). Since then we’d swear his photos have gotten even better.

Using a process known as focus stacking, each of Komarechka’s snowflakes is composed of as many as 40 separate photos of the same snowflake, combined to create a single extraordinarily clear image.

Due to the transient nature of the subject, not only is capturing a photograph of each snowflake a race against time, but 4-5 hours of post-processing are also necessary because of the handheld photography, the angles, and the lighting. Further adding to the lengthy process, the artist also needed to use “an algebraic equation to calculate the number of pixels per millimeter and measure the crystals” in order to pose them correctly against one another.

In addition to publishing a book entitled Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes, Komarechka just unveiled a fantastic creation entitled The Snowflake, a poster containing of 400 of his snowflakes, each painstakingly measured and scaled to each other. The Snowflake is an awesome work of scientific photography that was over 2,500 hours over the course of 5 years in the making.

Copies of Sky Crystals and prints of The Snowflake are both currently available via Don Komarechka’s website.

[via My Modern Metropolis]

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