Nathan Myhrvold built a special device and shot it at a temperature below zero to capture the image.

You may have heard that no two snowflakes are the same-but you have never seen a crystal structure with amazing details like the three new photos of Nathan Myhrvold, who claims to have photographed the world The highest resolution snow image on the world.

The challenge of shooting snowflakes is obvious. It is fragile and tiny, only a few millimeters wide, and a piece of snowflake can melt in a few seconds-which is why Myhrvold was filmed on site. In Fairbanks, Alaska and Yellowknife in Northwestern Canada, the temperature Up to minus 20 degrees.

A former Microsoft CTO-born food photographer-and the author of "Modernist Food Recipes"-Myhrvold spent 18 months designing and building a custom snowflake camera that allowed him to capture snowflakes with extraordinary details The delicate, lace structure is immortal.

"Snowflakes are a great example of hidden beauty," Myhrvold said in a statement. "Water is a very familiar thing to all of us. When you look at it from a different perspective, you will feel very strange. The intricate beauty of snowflakes stems from their crystal structure, which is the microscopic aspect of water molecules. Reflect directly."

Nathan Myrward, no two are similar. Photo courtesy of Modernist Food Gallery.

In order to keep the snowflakes intact for as long as possible, Myhrvold added a cooling table to the camera for shooting specimens. He chose a pulsed high-speed LED light on the microscope, which eliminates heat transfer and vibration, which may damage the sample or blur the photo.

The entire device includes an artificial sapphire lens made of carbon fiber that will not grow or shrink under extreme temperatures. These photos were taken with a shutter speed of only 500 microseconds.

Nathan Myrward, Yellowknife dances wildly. Photo courtesy of Modernist Food Gallery.

This may be since the Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley (Wilson A. Bentley) installed a camera on his microscope in 1885 and took the world’s first photo of these transient crystals. Recognized as the biggest breakthrough in a limited field.

Nicknamed Snow Bentley, he went on to create 5,000 pictures of what he called "ice flowers", donated 500 to the Smithsonian Institution, and showed 2,600 in his 1931 book "Snow Crystal". (His works are also collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.)

A photo of snowflakes taken by Wilson A. Bentley. He was the first person to capture a single snowflake in a movie. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Ninety years later, if we look closely, snowflakes are still amazing examples of natural beauty.

"Numerically speaking, most snowflakes are not perfect dendritic beauty; they are a fairly simple hexagonal rod or plate," Myhrvold told My Modern Met. "However, this may change suddenly, that is when you turn from a boring plate to seeing something amazing. So you have to mobilize quickly to shoot."

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