Snowflake Bentley
The idea that “no two snowflakes are alike” is technically true. Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley spent his life both documenting and celebrating that fact.
Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1865–1931) was a Vermont farmer who became the first person to photograph individual snowflakes using a microscope. Fascinated by their beauty, Bentley spent his life capturing more than 5,000 snowflake images.
As a child he used a microscope given to him by his mother to study “drops of…
