These
beautiful snowflake photos were actually captured using a microscope
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Michael Peres is a photography professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. He became obsessed with photographing snowflakes with his
microscope since 2003 when he visited an exhibit featuring Wilson Bentley's
snowflake work.*
When snow falls, he catches the flakes on a black velvet tray and then transfers them onto the
microscope glass with a needle. Since the snowflakes melt quickly, he usually has less than a minute to capture the flake before it's gone forever.*
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