Snowflakes, Close Up

"Snow Crystal Photo Gallery I"
"... Capturing the fleeting beauty of snowflakes ..."
snowcrystals.com / Caltech (February 1, 1999)

"These pictures show real snow crystals that fell to earth in Northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. They were captured by Kenneth G. Libbrecht using a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope...."

And, they're beautiful.