Although the images sold for just five cents at the time, they are now regarded as having helped shape the world of science photography. With their delicate symmetry and unique crystalline structures, ...

(Inside Science) -- Snowflakes. They are beautiful and fragile -- and very difficult to photograph. But that didn’t stop one scientist from trying. Can you imagine how hard it would be to photograph a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Yellowknife Flurry." Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture ...

Any snowfall can be a headache and all-out nuisance for many of us each winter. Yet Mother Nature's burden is also a wonder to behold. For photographer Nathan Myhrvold, capturing the beauty of ...

All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between ...

Why would former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold spend a year and a half building a custom 100-megapixel carbon-fiber super-cooled sapphire-lensed LED-lit super camera to take ...

They say no two snowflakes look the same — well, scientists at the University of Utah aren't going to take that for granted. They've devised a photography rig that can take detailed photos and ...

Studies among the Snow Crystals by Wilson Bentley 1902. Bentley was a bachelor farmer whose hobby was photographing snow flakes. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Close-up of ...

Nathan Myhrvold created the Snowflake Cam to capture up-close pictures of snowflakes. He calls it "the highest resolution snowflake camera in the world." He has traveled all over the US to find ...